On Monday, as news of the pending announcement trickled out, the Syrian minister of information, Omran al-Zoubi, told a Lebanese television station that the U.S. was finally acknowledging a claim made for almost two years by the Bashar Assad regime: that it was fighting not a popular uprising but a war waged by terrorist groups.
I guess if you don't bother to acknowledge a union claiming to represent your workers, it's easy enough to write them out of the picture when you award a pay increase.
Critics have said that recognizing Israel's claim to Jerusalem without acknowledging a Palestinian claim broke with international consensus and prejudged the outcome of any negotiations.
Clinton's representatives, including former U.S. Ambassador to Israel Martin Indyk, have also blamed the Palestinian refusal to acknowledge a basic historical Jewish claim to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City as evidence of intransigence and bad faith that helped kill the talks.
But it is still, as far as I can see, the spirit of Man and not God".The Scientologists, for whatever it may be worth, do claim to acknowledge a Supreme Being but say they have no "set dogma" concerning the Deity.
But it does suggest that moral realists can acknowledge a necessary connection between moral claims and action without abandoning the cognitivism that is central to their position.
The winning design, a water-filled square for fake pearl diving, claims to acknowledge a gulf tradition and tangentially references the Pearl roundabout.
Ignoring all of that to press on with continued development of natural gas infrastructure makes Wolf the particular type of climate denier who claims to acknowledge a problem, but who pushes policies and programs that only make things worse.
When human rights violations are presented primarily in material terms, acknowledging an indemnity claim becomes one way for a victim to be recognized.
In July the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory acknowledged that a claim it had been forced to retract last year -- namely that it had discovered a new element -- was not simply a mistake but had been based on fabricated data.
