In private, most acknowledge, as do their leaders, that the age-old dream of a Kurdish state encompassing minorities in Syria, Turkey and Iran, as well as Iraq, is foreclosed by those states' implacable opposition and by an American veto.
"Say what you will about Shelly, he's outmaneuvered Rudy," a Democratic lawmaker who insisted on anonymity said yesterday, acknowledging, as do we all, that circumstances have been changing quickly and could again.
We acknowledge, as did President Obama, that these are complex issues that bring into play competing interests that will require us to balance the rights of law-abiding citizens to keep and bear arms with the concerns of those calling for more stringent restrictions on gun ownership.
Judge Simpson acknowledged, as did the state in the lawsuit, that there have been no prosecutions or even investigations of in-person voter fraud in Pennsylvania.
But Dr. Cohen acknowledges, as does Dr. Overland, that some of his ideas are tentative and need further research.
Nevertheless, Bell acknowledges, as did Shaftesbury, that the two emotions are often confused partly because in everyday speech the word "beauty" is used indiscriminately for items that fall in each of the two categories (beautiful works of art, attractive men and women).
We frankly acknowledge, as did Klimisch et al. (1996), that judgment is inherent in that process.
The court acknowledged, as it did in the District of Columbia case, that the amendment did not confer "a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever and for whatever purpose".
Throughout his campaign for re-election, Mr. Pataki maintained that his budget would hold together through this fiscal year, but last week he acknowledged, as he did today, that if current trends on Wall Street continue, the state faces at least a $2 billion shortfall in the fiscal year that ends on March 31.
In the Sarkandi case, the judge said a judge in a previous case had made observations that "do not acknowledge as fully as they might the difficulties faced by special advocates in testing evidence that emerges in the closed material procedure, in circumstances where they cannot seek the instructions of the claimants on that evidence".
