The championship was the boys' sole acquaintance with justice at Nickel.
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The silver lining is her new acquaintance with Dax, the computer guru.
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His youthful acquaintance with struggle was limited to being a Mets fan.
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MY concerns stem from intimate acquaintance with the limitations of the measures themselves.
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Mr. Khashoggi's first claim to fame was his acquaintance with Osama bin Laden.
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Hagan is a casual acquaintance with whom I've made small talk on Twitter.
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On March 22, Profumo stood before his colleagues and denied any acquaintance with Keeler.
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"Even a passing acquaintance with monetary history suggests that this centre won't hold," Carney said.
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"Even a passing acquaintance with monetary history suggests that this center won't hold," Carney said.
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Bree Hitchcock, an acquaintance with mutual friends, saw a post and wanted to help out.
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A full acquaintance with the obesity research doesn't necessarily help parents make their daily decisions.
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I didn't even really talk to him… That's the extent of my acquaintance with Mr. Flynn.
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Most were in their mid-20s, of normal weight, and with some acquaintance with office life.
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Writers lacking an everyday acquaintance with children are less likely to conceive them as literary personalities.
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Unfortunately, Trump doesn't do facts, doesn't know humanity and has only a passing acquaintance with community.
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A teenager can renew acquaintance with a passionate interest or hobby that might have fallen away.
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Though the years, I've had an arm's-length acquaintance with Nathan because we share an agent.
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Fortune has granted me a long (but admittedly not deep) acquaintance with Judge Brett Kavanaugh's family.
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Traditionally, an officer who identified someone in court had to demonstrate prior acquaintance with the individual.
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In his letter, Edwards highlighted his acquaintance with foreign heads of state, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
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Instead he uses his acquaintance with extreme environments to reflect on the mental and physical benefits of walking.
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So when Jack told the House of Commons he had no improper acquaintance with her, that was it.
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It began a long acquaintance with Dr. Pasachoff, now one of the leading eclipse astronomers in the world.
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We may have passing acquaintance with what we like, but we don't have much of an intimate relationship.
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You've already forgotten the sleepless nights that you had, the marital strife, your uneasy acquaintance with baby poop.
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When you do sign off to a colleague or acquaintance with "XO," the message you communicate resonates: I'm savvy.
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Abe's warm ties with Trump and his acquaintance with other world leaders has been seen as a diplomatic plus.
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Simon Hobday was known as Scruffy, for his distant acquaintance with the reasonably stylish attire favored in his calling.
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I'm not sure whether it's better to see this show with or without previous acquaintance with Mr. DeLillo's novel.
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Although she is a native of New York, she makes her first acquaintance with aimless urban walking in France.
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She only learned of his death from an acquaintance, with no official word from Wagner or the Russian authorities.
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His acquaintance with the O.S.S. spymaster Allen Dulles had made him an easy though absurd target for Stalin's last purge.
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She displayed a mastery of the labyrinthine house that seemed to come from deep acquaintance with any signs of disorder.
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The nice thing about quotes is that they give us a nodding acquaintance with the originator, which is often socially impressive.
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Please take a nice acquaintance with clean-looking fingernails to the movies with you and see if some hand-holding happens organically.
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Still, there was something special about the Carling Cup, and it went far beyond our mere acquaintance with extremely fizzy, horrible beer.
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How heartening to renew acquaintance with the uninhibited and adult eccentricity that BalletX, a company devoted to new choreography, seems to encourage.
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Scheyer first became obsessed with art through her acquaintance with the Russian-born Jawlensky, whom she met as a young woman in 1916.
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Having watched two performances with pleasure, I long now to renew my acquaintance with Azerbaijani music in general and Hajibeyli's opera in particular.
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I didn't know V.S. Naipaul very well and to a large extent my acquaintance with him was limited to meetings at literary festivals.
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A Sunni may like saying that Shiites are wannabe Iranians, but then he'll greet a Shiite acquaintance with a kiss on both cheeks.
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The series also provides Reed's listeners with a growing acquaintance with McLemore, by means of long excerpts from Reed's phone calls with him.
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At one point during our talk, Zardulu mentioned that her work was inspired by a childhood acquaintance with a wizard who bred unicorns.
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My Lost acquaintance, with whom I discussed the show but couldn't really stand to discuss anything else, shouted at me from across the hallway.
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Parents knew of Eisenhauer As for their daughter's acquaintance with Eisenhauer, both Tim and Sara Keepers said they were aware the two were friends.
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These persons had a full acquaintance with the details of the situation, and yet systematically underestimated the amount of obedience that subjects would display.
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Ryan is sacrificing too much for too little, and it's time he rummaged through his wobbly endoskeleton and made fresh acquaintance with his spine.
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So youngsters with only rudimentary maths may sign up for a maths degree and those who have little acquaintance with the past can read history.
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Even so, Giuliani struck an almost conciliatory note Thursday, suggesting that his acquaintance with Mueller could help him "negotiate" an end to the Russia investigation.
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Even a nodding acquaintance with events of the past decade would show that the financial industry has not yet perfected the art of policing itself.
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When Torres got to the area where the muxes live, she made acquaintance with several of them and was able to delve into their lives.
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Perhaps unlike you, Mr. Berryman and company do so with a concentration, lucidity and visceral force that suggest profound and old acquaintance with the music.
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Yet for some, losing a contact, even if it is only an acquaintance with whom they never really interact, can feel like a serious emotional blow.
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Young city dwellers' acquaintance with local amphibians may well be limited to readings of the endearing children's classics by Arnold Lobel, the "Frog and Toad" books.
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Delivered by a different man — and this is where my acquaintance with Hughes might get in the way — it may have seemed a little self-involved.
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Glines, whose acquaintance with torture consisted of the lobsters of Vinalhaven snapping at his gloves, talking about what you would and wouldn't do if you had balls.
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Sandwiched between these suburban episodes are scenes aboard a grimy city bus where Ray strikes up an acquaintance with Shatique (Danielle Leneé), a young African-American woman.
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And I'm keen to improve my scant acquaintance with the work of Ms. Hay, who has been a singularly inspiring figure for many connoisseurs of dance postmodernism.
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Despite the vast population of figures from the play, this isn't a show aimed at Shakespeare scholars; a mere passing acquaintance with "Romeo and Juliet" will do.
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But the FBI can and should exert due diligence in tracking down any available leads that will be uncovered by a renewed acquaintance with Carla F. Bad.
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But chef Robbie Wilson of Mattei's Tavern in Santa Barbara has a simple dish that barely requires acquaintance with fire: grilled avocados that hold their own dipping sauce.
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Duty bound, methodical and possessing only a nodding acquaintance with humor, Helen is someone you would probably like to know but wouldn't necessarily want to hang out with.
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In a summer of disturbing discord and violence, it's heartening to renew acquaintance with a play that leaves you moved, refreshed and, yes, maybe even a little enlightened.
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But Mr. Cavill will never be the star of this show, which Mr. Cruise reminds you as he plays God while gradually making acquaintance with his human self.
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The talk—about her house's décor, about her acquaintance with Delaware's governor, about the direction the nation had taken—was exquisitely boring in its remoteness from ordinary feeling.
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Their continuing increase is the most unexpected development in view of President Donald Trump's thorough acquaintance with that problem since the early days of his presidential campaign in 2015.
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He disclosed that he had professional relationships with the other arbitrators and a social acquaintance with Leviev but said those engagements should not create justifiable doubt about his impartiality.
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Police in Bedford, Texas believe that 14-year-old Kaytlynn Cargill was murdered by a 16-year-old acquaintance with a hammer after she was involved in a drug deal.
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The names of hometowns are frequently on the lips of those who remember life before the war, while children are raised with an intimate, if mythologized, acquaintance with their heritage.
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Belichick's affection for Trump seems more deeply rooted, but when pressed by the media, he denied that it was politically motivated and compared it to his acquaintance with John Kerry.
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But once you plunge in, you're likely to stay, whether you're deepening an existing acquaintance with the artist or meeting her, as many people will be, for the first time.
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He played a news report that suggested Mr. Mnuchin had enjoyed only a passing acquaintance with Mr. Trump — until he stopped by a victory party after the New York primary.
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A few weeks ago, a colleague told me a story about a professional acquaintance with whom he was traveling to New York after a visit to the Cannes Film Festival.
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In making her gallery rounds, she struck up an acquaintance with Howard Devree, the art news editor of The Times, who in 1955 offered her a job as a reviewer.
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This isn't to say that I didn't have worries based on Mr. Trump's deviations from conservatism, a political philosophy he seems to have no real interest in or acquaintance with.
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Even so, many people have at least a passing acquaintance with some of the superstars of the classical repertoire: Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, say, or Mozart's "Eine kleine Nachtmusik", or Handel's "Messiah".
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Baker's poems depend on long acquaintance with a small place, where year-over-year comparison makes even the arrival of a feeding monarch or a nagging blue jay a standout event.
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On visits to New York, he renewed his acquaintance with the work of Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko, which he saw for the first time in a 1957 exhibition in Ahmedabad.
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A lot of commentary about Elizabeth Murray has connected her to feminism, graffiti art, her schooling in Chicago and acquaintance with the Hairy Who and the Imagists, all of which is true.
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Benjamin's voice swings between the rhythms of the Southern hills and the lofty, elevated tone encountered in Twain and contemporary westerns (which ultimately comes from an acquaintance with the King James Bible).
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No rational business person — even with just a passing acquaintance with the theory, much less a Harvard MBA who might have spent time with Christensen in person — would intentionally disrupt their business.
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EX models also get forward collision warning and autonomous emergency braking, two technologies that are rare for the class and can prevent you from making unsolicited acquaintance with another motorist's back bumper.
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Obviously, it's passed time that we chucked some robotic submersibles over to chart this moon's dark, ice-covered seas, and to strike up an acquaintance with any beings that might inhabit its depths.
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While Joel Kaplan, its longtime chief lobbyist, looks a very likely candidate for an intimate acquaintance with "oppo research" dark arts — if indeed COO Sheryl Sandberg is in the clear on this one.
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Keeping faith with those who fought, suffered and died for the principles we profess to still cherish requires more than a nodding acquaintance with them, more than a perfunctory acknowledgment of their struggles.
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Tom and Joan have, as far as we can tell, no other family, no jobs and no friends, though they do strike up an acquaintance with a couple they meet at the hospital.
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And if you think you know country music through a passing acquaintance with honky-tonk bars and whatever comes up on the radio during long drives, you'll quickly realize what you've been missing.
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The plot devices of "Belgravia" will be familiar to anyone who has a passing acquaintance with Victorian fiction: There are missing papers, duplicitous ladies' maids, gambling debts, dubious marriage lines and long-lost heirs.
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There he found inspiration in the Louvre, in the retrospectives of the flickering Impressionist generation, in his acquaintance with would-be painters and poets and, it appears, in the invigorating camaraderie of la Vie Bohème.
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Indeed, between Bérenger and Mr. Ifans's direct acquaintance with "King Lear" — he played the Fool to Glenda Jackson's diminutive monarch in 2016 — the actor would seem to be circling Shakespeare's piteous ruler for himself someday.
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Mr. Morris, one of the great sleuths of modern cinema (who many years ago worked as a private detective), brings to "Wormwood" a long acquaintance with the slipperiness of truth and the deceptions of power.
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Hinge CEO Justin McLeod, speaking to The Verge, says that because of how Hinge works — by trying to match you with people you have a shared acquaintance with — ghosting is a minor problem to begin with.
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In court filings seen by Reuters, lawyers for Giahmi said he had not disclosed records of phone calls with Saif where they were unrelated to business dealings, because his acquaintance with Saif was not in issue.
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Specifically, she mentions an acquaintance with Linda Kasabian, the twenty-three-year-old member of the Manson family who had driven the car when a group of them murdered Sharon Tate and her houseguests in August 1969.
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Mr. Young came under F.B.I. scrutiny in 2010 because of his acquaintance with Mr. Chesser, and then he and the undercover officer met several times in 2011 with Mr. Khalifi and discussed violent jihad, the affidavit says.
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But suspicion soon turned to Druking and his team, who were now attacking Mr. Moon and his government after Mr. Kim failed to keep his promise to provide Duking's acquaintance with a government job, according to investigators.
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Even people with just a passing acquaintance with the badge could have seen the numerous ads featuring the actor Matthew McConaughey gliding through LA nightlife or offering esoteric musings from behind the wheel of a Lincoln vehicle.
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He had struck up an acquaintance with Crick about eight years earlier, while Woese was working at the General Electric Research Laboratory in Schenectady, N.Y., as an unguided biophysicist not quite sure what his employers wanted from him.
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Within a walled-in, sun-soaked backyard (designed with bright storybook lushness by Miriam Buether) sit four grandmotherly types, basking and chatting in the idle, free-associating way of people of long acquaintance with time on their hands.
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Rafi notes that Pakistani doctors or engineers are sometimes extremists because in that country's specialized education system they gain the confidence of a university degree without the critical thinking that (ideally) comes from an acquaintance with the liberal arts.
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In recent days, Trump adopted big brush themes, maintained his superficial acquaintance with policy, used of social media as a messaging tool, and refused to accept any of the conventions about how politics has been conducted for eons -- i.e.
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It was the role where most of us made our acquaintance with Idris Elba, the six-foot-three British actor whose steady climb to the A-list has left a wake of swooning women behind him, including my wife.
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More recently, the bishop and gospel singer Carlton Pearson, whose acclaim in Pentecostal and evangelical circles brought him into acquaintance with Presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton, proclaimed that he no longer believed in everlasting separation from God.
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But in a much weirder twist, Stallworth also strikes up a phone acquaintance with David Duke himself (played, brilliantly, by Topher Grace), with whom he chats on the regular about white supremacy and the wrongs incurred on white Americans.
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Sometimes the artist's acquaintance with obscurity is long behind him, as in the case of Jasper Johns, who has, as M.H. Miller writes in his profile, managed to consistently define and speak to America for the past 60 years.
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While Henry investigates a strange incident at the nearby Shawshank State Penitentiary, he also renews his acquaintance with his former neighbor Molly Strand (Melanie Lynskey), a struggling real-estate agent who relies on illegal narcotics to dampen her psychic abilities.
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" My own mildly surreal acquaintance with its methods began as a result of a study, published this month in the journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, under the title "Predator Control Should Not Be a Shot in the Dark.
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Bourdain's father had died suddenly, at fifty-seven, from a stroke, and Bourdain often thinks about dying; more than once, he told me that, if he got "a bad chest X-ray," he would happily renew his acquaintance with heroin.
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Anyone who has even a slight acquaintance with Freudian theory or Japanese erotica will grasp the psychosexual significance of those eels, who live in the aquifer underneath an Alpine spa and occasionally make their way into the plumbing and beyond.
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Because the restaurant, known as "the Senate Saloon," was located in the Senate wing, Murray was afforded the chance to make casual acquaintance with senators and members of their staffs once he began working there in 1869, when he was 18.
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If that's what you're in the mood for, this take on a psychopathic king — from a country whose past notably includes highly destructive acquaintance with a demented head of state — offers chills that no seasonal spook house could hope to emulate.
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Bedford and his archaeologist colleagues on Vanuatu are known for their long tenure in the country and their keen acquaintance with local sensitivities, and it was only on their bond that the Teouma petrous bones were sent abroad for sandblasting.
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"Within my friend group, there was a young man that had been accused of rape, of raping someone that I was also an acquaintance with," said Camille Coleman, 19, a political science major at Bergen Community College in New Jersey.
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Another device is the "honey trap"—a woman paid to strike up an acquaintance with a player and introduce him to fixers, or even to have an affair with him, meaning photographs can be taken and used as blackmail if he rebuffs them.
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ExxonMobil is sometimes compared to a de facto state in terms of its power and reach, and the head of such an influential energy firm would quickly founder without in depth knowledge of geopolitics and acquaintance with the domestic politics weighing on key world leaders.
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Directed once again by Chad Stahelski, the story travels to Casablanca and the Sahara as John calls in old markers and the movie racks up guest stars: Anjelica Huston as a scary trainer of ballerina-assassins; Halle Berry as a former acquaintance with very particularly skilled dogs.
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Because the trial is expected to be heavily steeped in testimony about illegal drug use, addiction, crime and rehab, prospective jurors were interviewed in private in Judge Dan A. Polster's chambers, so that lawyers could determine whether they had a glancing acquaintance with any of those topics.
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The Neapolitan novels tell the story of a writer, also named Elena ("Lenù," for short), whose subject is the filth of the neighborhood in Naples where she grew up and her long acquaintance with Lila, the brilliant, disagreeable classmate she leaves behind and returns to intermittently over the next 50 years.
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Though Alvarez does not claim personal acquaintance with anyone struggling with opioid abuse, he was strongly moved to create the exhibition based on the need for recognition of the actors that continue to facilitate distribution of gateway drugs like OxyContin, and a desire to see them held accountable in a meaningful way.
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Writers don't live only in their books, and Timothy Greenfield-Sanders's film, produced under the auspices of PBS's venerable "American Masters" series (and opening in Manhattan at Film Forum and Film at Lincoln Center on Friday) offers a look at Morrison that can complement an acquaintance with her work and inspire new reading.
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Kendall was also directly involved with the new docu-series "Ted Bundy: Falling for a Killer," which offers more direct testimony from her, as well as collecting insights and anecdotes from her daughter Molly and from a handful of other women who survived their acquaintance with one of the 20th century's most notorious villains.
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As an experiment, your correspondent attended two evenings at the Luna Cinema, watching one unfamiliar film ("Jaws" at Brockwell Lido) and one that has been watched on many a bored Saturday night ("Four Weddings and a Funeral" at Kensington Palace) in order to judge whether acquaintance with the film makes a difference to the enjoyment of the evening.
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He may not have been the commercial equal of Dame Agatha, with sales as paltry as half a billion copies, yet he outdid her in industry—he produced more than four hundred novels, to her sixty-six—and in pretty much everything else, displaying a frighteningly intimate acquaintance with mortal weakness for which she could only grope.
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I have only a glancing acquaintance with Alanis's original album (I was slightly too young and way too uncool to listen to Jagged Little Pill very much in the '90s), but the music is so undeniable, and the young cast so strong, that it was easy for me to let myself get swept away by everything that was happening onstage.
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It is a story of returning to the values of traditional Japanese architecture through the work of modern architects who admire them, as well as the rather simple idea — however sometimes tortuously expressed by Kuma via detours into Western philosophy and critical theory — that architecture should cease to force itself onto a landscape and should instead, through acquaintance with local materials and methods, relate itself harmoniously to its surroundings.
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I found a couple of ways around this: I used my rare day off work, when my child still attended preschool, to drop in; I had both my husband and my mother take a turn to unexpectedly drop in for an early pickup; I made acquaintance with other parents in my child's class and asked them if they could let me know how my son was doing when they picked up their child — a virtual drop-in.
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The gorgeous Linda Celeste Sims, strict within her voluptuousness, and her husband, Glenn Allen Sims, with his feats of effortless-seeming partnering; the amazingly tall (6-foot-4), broad and long-limbed Jamar Roberts, calmly titanic in presence and power; the ultra-vivid Hope Boykin, whose huge eyes are part of her bold attack and easy charm; Clifton Brown, a cool technical powerhouse, back after several years with other companies: These are well-known wonders, but it does you good to renew acquaintance with them.
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