At such moments, it would probably be much better for everyone if the coalition leaders — Obama, Sarkozy, Cameron — took to a collective podium and acknowledged explicitly that, yes, they were in fact trying, as Senator Lindsey Graham so frothily put it, "to cut the head of the snake off," but that they were nonetheless sorry about the loss of life of innocent members of his family.
In his inauguration speech, Obama acknowledged explicitly that this country includes nonbelievers along with Christians and religious minorities.
And, for sure, let us not acknowledge explicitly that this is also the season of Hanukkah, Id al-Fitr, Kwanzaa and, lest Wiccans feel slighted, the winter solstice.
Voters will not give Labour a hearing on the economy, they argue, until it acknowledges explicitly that it spent too much money in government.
In fact, the Home Office acknowledges explicitly that the government's approach to out-of-country appeals is to do as little as possible to comply with the European convention on human rights.
Despite the president's refusal (so far) to acknowledge explicitly that he gave the order to kill Awlaki, there is no doubt, whether through a signed intelligence "finding", classified executive order, or extensive briefings about the US target list, the ultimate command responsibility was Obama's.
Firstly, to emphasise the 'performative nature of knowledge', a digital resource will have to acknowledge explicitly that the information loaded on to the database or website is not a 'definitive' version (especially so if it is a recording of a previous performative knowledge production occasion itself, like ceremonial activity).
And it is gratifying to see someone involved in the project acknowledge explicitly that the church's image is bad enough that it needs "resurrecting".
This approach acknowledges explicitly that AD-P in the absence of clinical symptoms should not be seen as a disease state, and should not be diagnosed as such.
One participant's description of having forgotten to take their medication seems to acknowledge explicitly that this is a factor in determining treatment behaviour, saying "I missed a few days because (a) I was extremely busy and distracted and (b) subconsciously I didn't want to take it because I occasionally become very resentful of the fact that I have to take medication every day" (P33).
This is infrequently acknowledged explicitly or documented, even in studies that have looked into the coping strategies of health professionals [ 3- 5, 28, 29, 41, 44, 45].
