Sentence examples for acknowledge the force from inspiring English sources

It took the bombing in Bali this month, which killed some 200 people, for her to acknowledge the force and depth of that militancy in predominantly Muslim Indonesia.

Visit most towns or rural areas where factories are boarded up and all the economic life is confined to strip malls, and you have to acknowledge the force of Murray's picture.

"Contrary to media reports, this decision was not taken in order to maximise publicity, it was taken to preserve any potential evidence," South Yorkshire police said in the statement, adding that it was disappointed the BBC had been slow to acknowledge the force had not been the source of the original leak.

Many thinkers acknowledge the force of at least some arguments from both sides.

Even if we acknowledge the force of these objections, there does seem to be something intuitively appealing about personality-based theories of intellectual property rights (Moore 2008).

Then it would be open to us to acknowledge the force of Armstrong and Bigelow's intuition that the circumstances in which A is true are somehow different from those in which it isn't, but without our having to think that there exists something that we've quantified over than makes it so.

Today, most writers show greater respect for Native Americans and are more likely to acknowledge the forced labor, fatal diseases and cultural repression that the Spanish brought to California along with Christianity, literacy and agriculture.

Secularists would probably retort (and Mr Spencer more or less acknowledges the force of this point) that human rights began as a protest against cruel theocracies which enforced a particular way of religious thinking and punished dissenters, either physically or by excluding them from power.Anyway all that is behind us, the essay insists.

He began, as he had to, by acknowledging the force of the Smith v. Maryland ruling, in which the Supreme Court said that a suspected criminal had no reasonable expectation of privacy in the numbers he dialled from his home phone because he transmitted them to the phone company voluntarily, and in the knowledge that the company recorded them as part of its business records.

By contrast, if I both say that assertions are actions governed by such and such norms, and that furthermore assertions are in fact made, I have myself taken a normative stance, acknowledging the force of norms.

J. Kockelmans (1985, pp. 126-32) implicitly acknowledges the force of this criticism by attempting to dodge it, claiming that Heidegger is not in fact describing Van Gogh's painting but only using it as a phenomenological jumping off point to evoke the entirely different shoes of the farmers with which he was familiar.