Sentence examples for acknowledge the violence from inspiring English sources
Other former colonial powers have been deeply reluctant to acknowledge the violence associated with their imperial history.
In Britain we applaud the "civilising mission" of our imperial past, but are less happy to acknowledge the violence and brutality that so often girded our imperial endeavour.
The city's historic-tour guides tend to gloss over slavery, as if it were impolite to acknowledge the violence and oppression behind the construction of everything beautiful.
For Aliaa and her friends, it fit a pattern: the Western media were refusing to acknowledge the violence of the uprising and ignoring the losses on the government side.
"We want to acknowledge the violence police are exposed to," said Curt Goering, the deputy executive director of Amnesty International U.S.A. "But in some of these cases people appear to have been targeted.
The official SANA news agency acknowledged the violence on Friday and said a number of people had been killed, but provided no details.
His mum and I got on really well, but she never acknowledged the violence even though I would be sitting there covered in bruises.
If Delacroix's painting understands the seduction of revolution better than any other, it also acknowledges the violence that is inseparable from that belief in total change and the rule of the crowd.
Robert Putnam's case for cherishing World War II and our present crisis as boons to the American civic spirit would have been far more convincing had he acknowledged the violence, xenophobia and racism that typically attend such unifying moments ("A Better Society in Time of War," Op-Ed, Oct. 19).
The sequence is not only distinguished by its brutality, but also because it is one of a very few movie or TV representations of "the peculiar institution," both before it and since, that acknowledged the violence and depravity of slavery.
Telling the Exodus story without acknowledging the violence against the Caananites is similar to repeating the Zionist myth that Israel was a "land without a people for a people without land".
