But Republicans have refused to believe Mr Obama is serious, or even to acknowledge the argument.
Few European governments seem ready to acknowledge the argument that their far-flung interventions turn their own citizens against them.
Mrs. Kroes, a Dutch economist, acknowledged the argument in her speech but said operators were using market developments as an excuse to maintain unreasonably high charges.
Mariana Mazzucato is R M Phillips Professor of Science and Technology Policy at the University of Sussex, and author of The Entrepreneurial State (@mazzucatom) The settlement is close to the upper limits of expectations of research-intensive universities and we should gracefully acknowledge the argument put by Cable and Willetts and accepted by the Treasury.
"The U.S. overseas presence is costly, increasingly complex and of growing security concern," the report says, without acknowledging the argument of many in the State Department that there are too few Americans now poised to explain American policy to a world increasingly suspicious of Washington's motives.
More importantly, the court did at least acknowledge the argument that indecency rules could be "overruled" because the once scarce public airwaves have been "overtaken by technological change and the wide availability of multiple other choices for listeners and viewers".
First, I acknowledged the arguments for the bill.
Then he acknowledged the arguments of the leadership.
Refusing to rebut, satirise, or even acknowledge the arguments and assumptions aired daily on Fox News is simply to let their influence grow unchecked.
Francis acknowledged the arguments of climate science skeptics with a parenthetical nod (too much of one, in the view of some climate scientists) that volcanoes, solar cycles, and other natural phenomena can contribute to warming.
Because of this, additional steps were taken in this research to further decrease the likelihood of information loss and erroneous results as well as to acknowledge the arguments by skeptics, who caution against the use of Likert-type scales as interval data.
