Sentence examples for acknowledge war from inspiring English sources

Those who did not acknowledge war crimes but were found guilty of such offenses could receive harsh prison sentences of as long as twenty years.

Novelists, in particular, tend to be suspicious of the very notion, and so they can acknowledge war's great secret -- that it's absurd and at times profoundly comic.

However, the fundamental reason for the deterioration of relations between Japan and its two important neighbours, China and South Korea, is because Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and many Japanese politicians still refuse to acknowledge war atrocities.

This week, scholars and dissidents' families began poring over the files, looking for clues into what happened during a never acknowledged war by the government against its citizens.

And a display of war's horrors, as in "The Trojan Women," can have a different meaning when it is part of a mythic heritage that implicitly acknowledges war's inevitability.

Paxman, whose great uncle died in the war, said that "not to acknowledge the war's significance would be wilful myopia", but that "the whole catastrophe has been overlain with myth and legend".

In these political times of hate, fear, and war, where I pray for peace and connection, I see the need for me to acknowledge the war I have with my body.

Many Chinese harbor deep resentment of what they perceive as Japan's refusal to acknowledge its war crimes in China.

Both history and experience force him to acknowledge that war is a "natural condition of the state".

Mr Paxman said that "not to acknowledge the war's significance would be wilful myopia", but that "the whole catastrophe has been overlain with myth and legend".

The Newsnight host said that "not to acknowledge the war's significance would be wilful myopia", but that "the whole catastrophe has been overlain with myth and legend".