Short of sitting in the stocks in Gray's Inn, I do not know what more I can do to acknowledge the error of my ways.
Now, belatedly, he sees a few towns and cities, architects, planners and developers acknowledging the error of their ways and changing direction, rejecting modernism and embracing classicism.
Steven Spielberg has acknowledged the error of his ways after reversing a series of additions and alterations which he controversially inserted into E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial.
I spoke with David Adams, president of the European Guide Dog Federation, who told me: "I'm glad to see Tesco acknowledge the error of its ways, but we constantly have problems like this further afield in Europe".
At the end of the first day of the trial, Winthrop recorded, "Mrs. Hutchinson, the court you see hath labored to bring you to acknowledge the error of your way that so you might be reduced.
Validating the other person's point of view by acknowledge the error of your actions or words is an important step towards forgiveness and resolution.
NBC acknowledged the error on Friday.
This appears to be the view of New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, who, for the last few years, has regularly berated the academics who refused to acknowledge the errors of their unmet inflation predictions and the politicians who quoted them.
Last week, the BBC said that the public affairs program "Newsnight" had erred in identifying a "senior Thatcher-era politician" — Mr. McAlpine, who was treasurer of the Conservative Party in the early 1980s under Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher — as the child abuser, and it acknowledged the error as a case of mistaken identity.
The N.H.L. acknowledged the error.
