The N.F.L.'s statement read: "The commissioner cited several reasons for the reinstatement, including Williams's forthcoming acknowledgment of and acceptance of responsibility for his role in the bounty program at the Saints, his commitment to never again be involved in a pay-for-performance or bounty system, and his pledge to teach safe play and respect for the rules at all levels of the game.
But in the context of purposive dialogue, it is essential to consider how a dialogue agent might arrive at the intention to convey certain ideas, such as episodic, instructional or descriptive information, a request, an acknowledgment and/or acceptance of a request, an answer to a question, an argument in support of a conclusion, etc.
Michael Lynn in The Common Review says that Requiem for a Species explores the gulf between acknowledgment and acceptance of climate change.
When I finally had "the talk" with my parents, in a flurry of tears and uncontrollable trembling at age 17 or 18, my mother's response was at once hard-hitting and comforting in its immediacy of acknowledgment and acceptance.
There appears to be a general social acknowledgment and/or acceptance of children with disabilities in the general population.
World leaders must impress upon Yasir Arafat and his people the basic need for acceptance and acknowledgment of Israel as the seed for any lasting accords.
With acceptance and acknowledgment of the anger that many survivors feel at being rejected by a loved one, she is able to conclude, "Unlike our loved ones, whose pain was so enveloping that they were unable to hear our shouts of help, we refuse to be exiled by despair".
If they pre-concede every Israeli demand -- abjurance of violence, acceptance of Israel, acknowledgment of all their losses -- what do they bring to the negotiating table?
Dr. Lawrence Rosen, an integrative pediatrician, author, and medical advisor to the Deirdre Imus Environmental Health Center, defines gratitude as "An intentional appreciation of what and who you have; an acceptance and explicit acknowledgment of what life brings you".
The major impact of cultural variations and beliefs needs further acknowledgment and acceptance.
