The Democratic United Party acknowledged a defeat.
Combining his jazz sensibility with a stage actor's skill, the lyric did not offer much hope as it acknowledged a defeat - that although understood intellectually, could not be accepted emotionally.
Union officials, acknowledging a partial defeat, said the Government's crackdown on organized labor under an emergency decree had hampered their ability to organize political protest.
Franz Müntefering, the secretary general of Mr. Schröder's party, acknowledged a "dramatic defeat," but played down the significance for the coming election.
Thus, Parker's life becomes impervious to time, a subject friends and business partners acknowledge with a defeated laugh.
The film is uplifted by its female characters, who refuse to acknowledge defeat, a perhaps surprising conclusion from a country too often characterized as both misogynist and reactionary.
UNITED NATIONS — Ivory Coast strongman Laurent Gbagbo was arrested Monday by French-backed forces of President-elect Alassane Ouattara, raising hopes for an imminent end to the strife that has racked the West African country since Gbagbo refused to acknowledge his defeat in a November presidential election.
In defeat, Ryan acknowledged a moral victory of sorts — he saw improvement, and enough to believe that a turnaround was coming, if not imminent.
This, after all, is a man who won the European Cup with two goals in injury-time and is hardly likely to concede anything until the whistle has gone; an invitation to acknowledge defeat at such a moment was at best patronising and at worst insulting.
Shortly before the final tally tonight, Mr. Persson appeared before reporters to acknowledge the defeat of the "yes" campaign.
