Sentence examples for acknowledging anything from inspiring English sources

"It's good to have the support of your boss," Thomas said Sunday, without directly acknowledging anything.

A pugnacious fellow, he has fought a lengthy battle from his Fifth Avenue aerie to avoid acknowledging anything sounding like personal responsibility for the disaster that befell A.I.G. and its shareholders.

Clemens knew it, but he was not acknowledging anything after an afternoon in which he surrendered four runs and left with a toe injury in the sixth, after an afternoon when he felt what it was like to be abused by the Mets.

Analysts turned a cold shoulder as well, McMahon says, resistant to acknowledging anything that contradicted their earlier work.

Yet there is a difference between responsible criticism that aims for success, and defeatism that refuses to acknowledge anything but failure.

Yet this near-refusal to acknowledge anything other than the glowingly positive was a reaction I encountered several times in talking with Ross.

Contrary to "Marine Mammals and the Navy's 5-Year Plan" (editorial, some editions, Oct. 12), the Navy hasn't been "forced to acknowledge" anything with respect to the potential damage done by sonar.

In South Louisiana they say "cher" as "sha" with a short "a," as in cat; they don't acknowledge anything about the "r"; and it certainly doesn't sound like the first name of Sonny Bono's superstar ex-wife.

"It's interesting, that particular thing, and I don't want to acknowledge or not acknowledge anything, because in no way do I feel victimised by my choices so it really was… [Russell] didn't necessarily make me cry: I cried," she says, sitting up a little straighter.

Trying to sort out the NBA's best and worst while the most important two months of the season are still being played is a bit like trying to figure out the guilty suspect in a Law & Order or CSI episode while not being allowed to acknowledge anything happening in the third act.

In addition it provides details about the attached illustrations and acknowledges anything published before the patent was filed that describes a similar invention.