American officials acknowledge that the task of re-establishing order in Iraq has proved far more daunting than planned.
Bill Self, the Jayhawks' coach, acknowledged the task ahead immediately afterward.
In the foyer of Portcullis House in the heart of Westminster, Sadiq Khan, who is tasked with galvanising Labour's push in London and seeing off the threat from the Greens, acknowledged the task ahead.
A DfE spokesman pointed out that the NAO had not found any material inaccuracies but acknowledged that the task of consolidating the accounts of thousands of academies was "enormous".
In early October, when the effort to reach a budget-deficit agreement with Congress was making large demands on his time, George Bush acknowledged that the task of mobilizing the world's opposition to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait--and foreign policy in general--gave him more satisfaction than any challenges on the domestic front.
And in connection with (2), while he acknowledges that the task of forming a totality of knowledge is of its nature incompletable, he nonetheless prescribes what he calls "heuristic" and "architectonic" procedures for, respectively, amassing the pieces of knowledge and forming them together into a coherent whole.
Pyott acknowledged that the task of cutting so many jobs will be "extremely unpleasant" but is far better than the 5,000 jobs that could be lost if Valeant acquires the company.
Crawford Del Prete, a senior vice president for research, acknowledged the formidable task of fusing product lines and internal organizations, but he argued that the deal signified the future of the global information technology industry.
Ford, at least, seems to be aware of the problem; his book is filled with hedges and qualifiers that acknowledge the complexity of the task of interpretation.
At no point, however, do the college guides acknowledge the extraordinary difficulty of the task they have set themselves.
