You need to be able to acknowledge that your job is just that, your job.
If you are able to acknowledge and understand your child's attempts at speech it encourages them to attempt more, and at the same time you are providing a good model of the speech.
And you need to be able to acknowledge these things without it killing your idealism, your desire to make the world better.
"You need to acknowledge your failure, be able to learn from it and not get fixated, but in time smile about it".
Guests certainly understand that you won't be able to acknowledge a gift that arrives just before or after the wedding until you return from your honeymoon.
Especially on those days that suck, you need to be able to acknowledge that it sucks.
And finally I was able to acknowledge how ill I was.
We should be able to acknowledge that Savile was an evil bastard who used his celebrity".
Did he regret not being able to acknowledge her efforts in person?
Andy, ready to put away childish things, is able to acknowledge what they have done for him.
