It was the closest any British minister had come to acknowledging outright that British agents knew or suspected that the detainees were being abused, and did little or nothing to prevent it.
Though Ethiopian officials have not acknowledged it outright, the country appears to have begun an offensive on at least two of the three main fronts along the nations' unsettled, 620-mile border, apparently in the hope of a quick victory.
To be clear: evasion here does not necessarily mean that I refuse outright to acknowledge that I will someday die.
Faced with the third-consecutive hottest year on record, historic deadly flooding, and increasingly abnormal weather, you might expect a strategic retreat of sorts, wherein people who once denied climate change outright now acknowledge its existence but cast doubt over its causes.
However, the FishFight campaign's position acknowledges ending discards outright is not simple: Re-writing the Common Fisheries Policy is going to be an enormously complicated business, and unfortunately there is no one easy solution to ending discards.
It's a touchy topic that some academics reject outright and others acknowledge, but are reluctant to discuss, as Emily Eakin wrote in the review.
Not framing it this way harkens back to a larger problem in our culture: a failure, or outright unwillingness, to acknowledge America's poor — both working and not — and to appreciate their struggle.
And although the SPD is reluctant to acknowledge that it made an outright mistake, it is conceding that changes are needed.Prostitution seems to have declined in Sweden (unless it has merely gone deep underground), whereas Germany has turned into a giant brothel and even a destination for European sex tourism.
When we did The Reagans movie, we had death threats for telling the truth about that president's outright refusal to acknowledge the growing AIDS crisis in America.
