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We are seeing the same thing you're seeing in New York and all the other big cities across the country : a spike in increase in violence but it's a number of issues, it's group and gang violence, it's retaliation from previous bad acts. But we are seeing an increase in close acquaintance shootings and domestic violence shootings where people just have absolutely poor or no conflict resolution skills and/or using guns to solve their conflicts. – Baltimore Police Commissioner Michael Harrison	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Hollywood loves a very dramatic abduction and similar stories, but that is not what typically happens in trafficking cases, it is usually someone they know or someone that an acquaintance knows. So it may be that a peer introduces them to someone who ends up recruiting for a trafficking ring. – Jonathan Todres	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Jarred Evans holed up in Jarred Evans home for a week and a half until Jarred Evans received the news that the U.S. Embassy was evacuating its diplomats and their families and other U.S. citizens. Jarred Evans was notified that a chartered flight would carry some of the 1,000 or so Americans in Wuhan back to the United States the next day. An acquaintance who drove Jarred Evans to the airport and U.S. officials notified Chinese authorities of the license plate number so that the car was allowed to drive on the streets. On the plane chartered by the U.S. to take the evacuees home were two men in full hazardous material suits who warned them about the seriousness of the outbreak. Nobody appeared sick but all of passengers decided to wear masks throughout the flight, Jarred Evans said. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP The plane flew to Anchorage, where the passengers had health screenings, and they cheered and applauded when the jet landed at the California base. Jarred Evans said the muted social experience on the base has been strange Im a very hands-on person. – Jarred Evans	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
These assaults were not date rapes. They were not acquaintance rapes. These assaults were violent rapes committed by a serial rapist -- a sexual deviant predator who was not going to stop until it was caught. – Police Cmdr. Greg McEachern	Found on CNN 5 years ago
Trump Jr. was attending an NRA convention and having dinner when an acquaintance asked him to say hello to Alexander Torshin and made an introduction. – Alan Futerfas	Found on CNN 5 years ago
My son felt he had to do everything in his power to try to rescue a friend and acquaintance. – Junko Ishido	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
The most winning woman I ever knew was hanged for poisoning three little children for their insurance-money, and the most repellent man of my acquaintance is a philanthropist who has spent nearly a quarter of a million upon the London poor. – Arthur Conan Doyle	added by anonymous 9 years ago
Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend. – Thomas Chandler Haliburton	added by anonymous 9 years ago
Honest criticism is hard to take, especially from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger. – Franklin P. Jones	added by anonymous 10 years ago
A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends. – George Washington	added by anonymous 10 years ago
To read a book for the first time is to make the acquaintance of a new friend; to read it a second time is to meet an old one. – Selwyn Champion	added by anonymous 13 years ago
If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another: I hope, upon familiarity will grow more contempt. – William Shakespeare, "The Merry Wives of Windsor", Act 1 scene 1	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger. – Franklin P. Jones	added by anonymous 13 years ago
I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled, and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout. – Jonathan Swift, "A Modest Proposal"	added by anonymous 13 years ago
If someone tells you that the fully armored man of the Middle Ages was so encumbered by his armor that he could not rise if he fell, you may well ask yourself, first, if it is reasonable to assume that professional soldiers would go on wearing armor that kept them from fighting and second, if this theory is in line with what you know of the heavily armored men of your personal acquaintance. – Niccola Sebastiani	added by anonymous 13 years ago
To read a book for the first time is to make the acquaintance of a new friend to read it a second time is to meet an old one. – Selwyn Champion	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance. – George Eliot	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The nice thing about quotes is that they give us a nodding acquaintance with the originator which is often socially impressive. – Kenneth Williams	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established. – Confucius	added by anonymous 14 years ago
A friend will know you better in the first minute they see you, than your acquaintance will in a thousand years. – Unknown	added by anonymous 14 years ago
It's very good for an idea to be commonplace. The important thing is that a new idea should develop out of what is already there so that it soon becomes an old acquaintance. Old acquaintances aren't by any means always welcome, but at least one can't be mistaken as to who or what they are. – Penelope Fitzgerald	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Without Christ, sciences in every department are vain....The man who knows not God is vain, though he should be conversant with every branch of learning. Nay more, we may affirm this too with truth, that these choice gifts of God -- expertness of mind, acuteness of judgment, liberal sciences, and acquaintance with languages, are in a manner profaned in every instance in which they fall to the lot of wicked men. – John Calvin	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. – Ambrose Gwinett Bierce	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance. – Samuel Johnson	added by anonymous 14 years ago

We are seeing the same thing you're seeing in New York and all the other big cities across the country : a spike in increase in violence but it's a number of issues, it's group and gang violence, it's retaliation from previous bad acts. But we are seeing an increase in close acquaintance shootings and domestic violence shootings where people just have absolutely poor or no conflict resolution skills and/or using guns to solve their conflicts.

– Baltimore Police Commissioner Michael Harrison

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Hollywood loves a very dramatic abduction and similar stories, but that is not what typically happens in trafficking cases, it is usually someone they know or someone that an acquaintance knows. So it may be that a peer introduces them to someone who ends up recruiting for a trafficking ring.

– Jonathan Todres

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Jarred Evans holed up in Jarred Evans home for a week and a half until Jarred Evans received the news that the U.S. Embassy was evacuating its diplomats and their families and other U.S. citizens. Jarred Evans was notified that a chartered flight would carry some of the 1,000 or so Americans in Wuhan back to the United States the next day. An acquaintance who drove Jarred Evans to the airport and U.S. officials notified Chinese authorities of the license plate number so that the car was allowed to drive on the streets. On the plane chartered by the U.S. to take the evacuees home were two men in full hazardous material suits who warned them about the seriousness of the outbreak. Nobody appeared sick but all of passengers decided to wear masks throughout the flight, Jarred Evans said. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP The plane flew to Anchorage, where the passengers had health screenings, and they cheered and applauded when the jet landed at the California base. Jarred Evans said the muted social experience on the base has been strange Im a very hands-on person.

– Jarred Evans

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

These assaults were not date rapes. They were not acquaintance rapes. These assaults were violent rapes committed by a serial rapist -- a sexual deviant predator who was not going to stop until it was caught.

– Police Cmdr. Greg McEachern

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Trump Jr. was attending an NRA convention and having dinner when an acquaintance asked him to say hello to Alexander Torshin and made an introduction.

– Alan Futerfas

Found on CNN
5 years ago

My son felt he had to do everything in his power to try to rescue a friend and acquaintance.

– Junko Ishido

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

The most winning woman I ever knew was hanged for poisoning three little children for their insurance-money, and the most repellent man of my acquaintance is a philanthropist who has spent nearly a quarter of a million upon the London poor.

– Arthur Conan Doyle

added by anonymous
9 years ago

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

– Thomas Chandler Haliburton

added by anonymous
9 years ago

Honest criticism is hard to take, especially from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.

– Franklin P. Jones

added by anonymous
10 years ago

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

– George Washington

added by anonymous
10 years ago

To read a book for the first time is to make the acquaintance of a new friend; to read it a second time is to meet an old one.

– Selwyn Champion

added by anonymous
13 years ago

If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another: I hope, upon familiarity will grow more contempt.

– William Shakespeare, "The Merry Wives of Windsor", Act 1 scene 1

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.

– Franklin P. Jones

added by anonymous
13 years ago

I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled, and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout.

– Jonathan Swift, "A Modest Proposal"

added by anonymous
13 years ago

If someone tells you that the fully armored man of the Middle Ages was so encumbered by his armor that he could not rise if he fell, you may well ask yourself, first, if it is reasonable to assume that professional soldiers would go on wearing armor that kept them from fighting and second, if this theory is in line with what you know of the heavily armored men of your personal acquaintance.

– Niccola Sebastiani

added by anonymous
13 years ago

To read a book for the first time is to make the acquaintance of a new friend to read it a second time is to meet an old one.

– Selwyn Champion