Excellence was publicly recognized and valued.
Throughout his career in Congress, he has publicly recognized the achievements of everyday people.
The valedictorian prize also celebrated people who weren't often publicly recognized: studious girls.
It is the 1990's; only in the previous decade did voices like his become publicly recognized.
In other words, doctors are withholding treatment from this vulnerable population, a practice that is neither regulated nor publicly recognized.
But he never publicly recognized either John or Winston, or said so much as a word to them.
The financial support of companies or wealthy individuals may be publicly recognized, but that must not obscure the allegiance between town and team.
And at the next Metropolitan Transportation Authority meeting, Ms. Williams publicly recognized the "specialized skills" that enabled workers to get the trains running again.
Not only has Ms. Kawakubo been publicly recognized as an artist, with many awards, including an honorary doctorate from the Royal College of Art in London.
The rite allows women to be publicly recognized as living a life of prayer and devotion while living in society rather than as nuns.
More than a dozen universities — including Brown, Harvard and the University of Virginia — have publicly recognized their ties to slavery and the slave trade.
