This, of course, is a wholly incorrect expression, but it serves to acknowledge plainly our ignorance of the cause of each particular variation" [ 60].
Mr. Fox acknowledged more plainly than he has before that the divided opposition vote helped the governing party's chances for victory.
On a recent afternoon at the austere glass-fronted labor court headquarters in the north of Paris, a lawyer for one union plainly acknowledged that the workers he represented had quit after being burned out from grueling workdays.
With his customary shrug and a grin, Mr. Boehner plainly acknowledged what the world already knew — he had failed to get enough Republicans to sign off on a deal to avoid automatic tax increases and spending cuts, and his members once again had left him standing nearly alone, like a man without a date to his own wedding, and at the crossroads of his career.
And throughout his career, Presley plainly acknowledged his debt.
Throughout, Mr. Stern plainly acknowledges his production's smallness.
But it plainly acknowledges its medium by presenting quotations on its back cover from graphic-novel luminaries like Jeff Smith, Marjane Satrapi, Craig Thompson and Art Spiegelman.
It plainly acknowledges that the important question about America's urban areas is no longer whether there are problems in this country's relationship to its cities but rather what might possibly be done about them.
Mr. Young said it was plainly not true that Britain was more hamstrung by class than any other Western country, but he acknowledged that the British quickly fell back on class stereotypes.
Although they plainly give the impression of being shot before the start of the financial crisis, they were actually filmed a year later, as Ms. Greenfield acknowledged in an e-mail.
It wasn't quite an about-face, but it was a welcome bit of nuance from Bettman, one that at least tiptoed up to the line of acknowledging what we can all plainly see happening right in front of us.
