With acknowledgments to REM, Pietersen has been England's Wake-up Bomb, head on fire with self-esteem, getting high on attitude and latitude, approaching the most pressured innings of his life as if practising his dance-floor moves.
With acknowledgments to a who's who of Iraq-war advocates — Richard Perle, Douglas Feith, Bernard Lewis, and Ahmed Chalabi — Wurmser proposed that the overthrow of Saddam would put in power traditional Shiites, who would reject the theocratic model of Iran and govern instead in a democratic, pro-Western way, in accord with the moderate beliefs of their own religious leaders, in Najaf and Karbala.
In The Taming of the Shrew, Baptista demanded: "Doff this habit, shame to your estate, an eyesore to our solemn festival!" The term was invoked with proper acknowledgment to its coiner in 2005 when plans were unveiled to build a massive metal shed in Stratford-on-Avon as a temporary home for the Royal Shakespeare Theatre.
With due acknowledgment to President Obama, when it comes to taking care of our heroes, we truly are not red or blue states, but Americans.
With all due acknowledgment to Mahler's artistic genius, his impact on the world was certainly not comparable to that of Freud and Einstein.
The place to begin is with a candid acknowledgment to Americans that the C.I.A. and F.B.I., for all their redoubled efforts, have found it exceedingly difficult to detect and disrupt terror plots as they are unfolding.
He had returned with a nod of acknowledgment to the passing of time and an insistence that he should not be considered "a hero".
He jogs to the middle of the room and points with a nod of acknowledgment to a woman in the audience, and then to an empty seat.
Following publication of the December article in The Atlantic, titled "The Zen Predator of the Upper East Side," Shireson said she and others saw "an opportunity to respond to these painful public revelations with an apology, an acknowledgment to those who outed this harmful behavior, and a pledge to change Zen's culture".
