Mr. Blake said it might be sad to lose languages but that sometimes it is a necessary price to pay for progress and freedom of choice in society: "I think we can acknowledge a sense of loss, but I think these are losses that we suffer as a free people, when we decide what norms to adopt and to leave behind.
Gorbachev does not acknowledge a win or loss in the war, but rather a peaceful end; he said he was not intimidated by Reagan's harsh rhetoric.
Even the Jets acknowledge that a loss would likely end their playoff chances with six games left.
There were few other moments to applaud or acknowledge in a loss that prolonged the Nets' baffling habit of sparkling on the road and slacking at home.
And Mr. Obama's aides acknowledge that a loss in this deep-blue state would be interpreted as a rebuke of Mr. Obama, affecting his ability to pass major legislation and the public's perceptions of his party's power.
Both senior officials acknowledged a potential loss of intelligence coming from the assaults on Isis networks the US monitors, but expressed hope that they would press Isis fighters into using more interceptable modes of communications.
However, even acknowledging a potential loss in short-term revenue, it might be worth it not to force disgruntled actors to make and promote a movie that they didn't want to make.
"Ed Ruscha and the Great American West" sticks to a largely pat reading of L.A. and Ruscha's feelings about its maturation, a reading that acknowledges a certain loss of innocence but doesn't dwell on it.
On Monday, President Nicolas Sarkozy of France acknowledged that a loss of the nation's triple-A rating could come soon, but said it would not pose an "insurmountable" difficulty.
Or perhaps it was budget cuts in the Sanitation Department, where the commissioner, John Doherty, acknowledged that a loss of 400 slots forced him to use 100 workers who were inadequately trained.
Acknowledging a degree of loss of generality, we have limited the number of femtocells to two primarily for two reasons.
