1. He helps educate Lizzie yet recognizes the unbridgeable social distance between them. 2. The area where social distances and spatial difference meet is in language. 3. Conversely, a greater social distance discourages attempts to acquire the target language. 4. These interests will vary according to the social distance of the parties. 5. There was a significant social distance between the Knighthood and ordinary noblemen. 6. The most effective leaders deliberately use differences to keep a social distance . 7. Social distance is reserved for strangers, newly formed groups, and new acquaintances.8. And because these poetry gatherings are so audience-oriented, they dissolve conventional social distance . 9. Respect is based on three main concepts : age, sex and social distance . 10. Politeness implies formal social distance where speaking less formally implies closeness.