The question is whether acknowledging the complications requires serious revision or even rejection of the central claim.
While acknowledging the complications posed by the recent massacre of 16 Afghans, apparently by a lone American soldier, and the loss of 6 British soldiers to a roadside bomb, Mr. Obama and Mr. Cameron insisted that the American-led coalition was making gains in preparing Afghans to take over their own security.
He did acknowledge the complication of allowing married priests into the church.
Baggini acknowledges the complication that religious believers might operate with different readings of the term supernatural, but then brushes this aside as secondary.
In an interview Tuesday night, Mr. Espada acknowledged the complication created by the selection process, but said the inspector general's involvement was problematic.
The younger Mr. Woodman acknowledged the complications.
Mr. DeGeorge acknowledged the complications in measuring Mr. Obama's wars.
Mr. Bloom acknowledges the complications of fraud and practicality, but says he's sure that the government, if it really wants to, can find adequate safeguards.
Sejal Worah, the programme director of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) in India, said that Greenpeace is effective at pulling issues into public attention, but that it does not acknowledge the complications of what people want.
Mr. Kaishian acknowledged the complications of standardized testing including what he called the "high-stake nature of testing that can be inherently unfair," confined as it is to only a snapshot of a student at any given moment and that may not convey the quality of any one school.
By self-reflexively winking at their own fictionality, such books acknowledge the complications intrinsic to writing "for" children.
