But for more than 100 years there was only one acknowledged world champion, a distinction a player earned by beating the previous world champion or by demonstrating clear superiority over his peers in a grueling series of matches.
"It is the acknowledged world leader in making jet engines, which have higher and higher quality at lower costs," said Lawton R. Burns, director of the Wharton Center for Health Management and Economics at the University of Pennsylvania.
Contributing to this is the common usage of the terms "world championship" or "world heavyweight championship" in general for all acknowledged world titles.
The Trustees hereby delegate to the League full authority to determine and amend from time to time the conditions for competition of the Stanley Cup, including the qualifications of challengers, the appointment of officials, the apportionment and distribution of all gate receipts, provided always that the winners of this trophy shall be the acknowledged World's Professional Hockey Champions.
Mr Page decided that he would be different: a great inventor and an acknowledged world-changer to boot.
Will Scolari trust Oscar to grow into a World Cup playmaker, as Menezes seemed prepared to do? Would any of the other candidates favor Oscar, or choose another from the Brazilians who seem at the heart of every decent European club side, or even the few acknowledged world-class players who, like Neymar, have stayed at home?
An increased need for palliative care has been acknowledged world-wide.
"The Artist," a likable spoof, doesn't acknowledge that world of heroic ambition and madness — it's bland, sexless, and too simple.
"Carrefour would bring a tremendous fresh fashion sense to complement Martha Stewart, and acknowledge the world in terms of meat and seafood and produce," Mr. Flickinger said.
"You've got to acknowledge the world around you," he said.
They watch the dumb TV with me until I'm ready to acknowledge the world beyond my couch.
