Sentence examples for acknowledge rather than from inspiring English sources

Haldeman's clients were taught to acknowledge rather than to deny their feelings (denial only made things worse) but to choose not to act on them.

More remains to be done, but the momentum is more easily sustained if we acknowledge, rather than denigrate, the progress achieved.

Regulators were softening the widely resented mark-to-market accounting provisions that had, in effect, compelled banks to acknowledge, rather than obfuscate, how toxic their toxic assets might be.

Citizens and politicians should acknowledge, rather than simply accept, this.

Though we get happy moments of intimacy with the ones we love most that are moments of truthfulness, of sharing secrets, etc. it is the play between deception and truthfulness that we should acknowledge, rather than the privileging of one over the other.

We think they should acknowledge, rather than avoid, the straightforward predictions.

So what is really important is that the damage is recognised and acknowledged rather than being buried under more eye-catching headlines.

If women acknowledged rather than denied their envy and if they acted out their competition directly, not indirectly, they might hold fewer grudges, engage less in slander and shunning, bond with their competitors and encourage their allies in new and productive alliances.

Such identification is expressed in vicarious feelings: in pride of one's country's merits and achievements, and in shame for its lapses or crimes (when these are acknowledged, rather than denied).

I think that it is unfortunate that those things are acknowledged rather than fully explained.

Eck notes, "Pluralism is the process of creating a society through critical and self-critical encounter with one another, acknowledging, rather than hiding, our deepest differences" and a commitment to nurture constructive dialogues.