It is little surprise that a petition started by British boxer David Haye to grant Ali an honorary knighthood had amassed more than 28,000 signatures by midday on Saturday, its wording explaining that to grant Ali such recognition would make him the "first Muslim to be so honoured, acknowledging him for the inspirational figure" he was and noting that "Muhammad loves [sic] the UK".
However, Hondius then employed Wright's calculations without acknowledging him for several regional maps and in his world map published in Amsterdam in 1597.
After so many years of supporting Hosni Mubarak, it was difficult to acknowledge him for the corrupt dictator he always was.
The citation for Bob Dylan, which acknowledges him for "having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition", is different from but oddly reminiscent of the one from 1913, when honouring an Indian – someone located in the world of gurus and séances – must have seemed as puzzling as giving a "serious" prize to a pop musician.
People did not acknowledge him for his incredibly important place in history," said Bourdain.
I sputtered and deflected awhile in response, but then had to admit the truth of what he was saying (and acknowledge him for his courage in saying it), and told him I wouldn't do this any more.
Authors' response: We agree with the reviewer that the predictive power is ultimately important and acknowledge him for this insightful comment.
Rocker, dressed in blue jeans and a black shirt and with a cell phone pressed to his ear, appeared to recognize that the fans were acknowledging him instead of berating him, for he waved to them before vanishing inside.
Thanks to the overwhelming power of Twitter, some of his favorite celebrities stepped out of our magical television set and acknowledged him and thanked him for his continuous online kindness.
Before the Academy finally deigned to acknowledge him with an Oscar for last year's Crazy Heart, we loved him in King Kong (1976), in Starman (1984), in Tucker (1988), in Fearless (1993), and in a couple of modest little art films called The Big Lebowski (1998) and Iron Man (2008).
(Most of his critics, we acknowledge, attack him for exactly the opposite reason, but then we have always had far more respect for Mr Greenspan than for those critics).
