Sir John Jervis ordered his ships to tack in succession to outmanoeuvre the Spanish off Cape St Vincent in 1791, but Commodore Nelson defiantly sailed on towards the enemy and gained an improbable victory, which the old martinet acknowledged graciously.
Mostly, I wasn't allowed to accept gifts from anyone, but with my aunt standing near I learned to graciously acknowledge their kindness toward me.
We graciously acknowledge the clinical research teams at each COTC institution and their clients and patients who participated in this study.
The authors graciously acknowledge Eddie Mulligan for skilled technical assistance, the farm staff at Teagasc, Grange Livestock Systems Research Department for the care and management of the animals, and Joe Larkin and Margaret Murray for blood analysis.
During trials, he makes a habit of graciously acknowledging opponents when he thinks they make a fair point.
But he is, to use a fashionable term, an excellent aggregator, drawing on and graciously acknowledging the research of others.
I called Driver's attention to this misunderstanding, and he has graciously acknowledged it in a communication to me.
But yesterday he graciously acknowledged the presence of two former police commissioners from the Giuliani's administration, William J. Bratton and Howard Safir.
At the same time, the show graciously acknowledges many of the creative helpers without whom he could not have pulled off his various printmaking exploits.
But I also know that restaurants can — and should — do a much better job of graciously acknowledging policies that inconvenience customers and diplomatically explaining why those policies exist.
First up was the assistant chief of mission at the American embassy, James Keith, graciously acknowledging Mr. Robinson's hurried apology, and reminding everyone that American statements, both by Ambassador Karl W. Eikenberry and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, had been critical of the Taliban.
