Other things have authority over us and the respect they are due includes acknowledgment of their authority and perhaps obedience to their authoritative commands.
Under terms of the agreement reached at the peace negotiations held in Paris in 1971 73, the PRG won acknowledgment of its authority in areas under its control, pending general elections to determine the future of South Vietnam.
Morsi, who still regards himself as Egypt's legal president, plans to defend himself because he believes engaging a lawyer would be an indirect acknowledgment of the court's authority.
The death last year of the unarmed civilian Eric Garner in New York from a police officer's chokehold – along with the fatal police shootings of Michael Brown, an unarmed 18-year-old in Missouri, and Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old in Ohio playing with a BB gun – led to nationwide protests as well as acknowledgment from some authority figures of the need for reform.
It was the first acknowledgment of responsibility from Russian authorities since Mr. Magnitsky died on Nov. 16, officially of toxic shock and heart failure, and it came two days after President Dmitri A. Medvedev called for a high-level investigation into his death.
"We are not seeking regime change, and we respect the right of the Iranian people to access peaceful nuclear energy," he insisted - an acknowledgment of the assertion frequently made by Iranian authorities.
What all conceptualizations and working definitions of the term political prisoner have in common is their acknowledgment of the importance of power relations, specifically between dissidents and agents of governmental authority or ruling elites.
The administration and the authority said on Sunday that the gesture remained a worthy acknowledgment of their hardships and those faced by R train riders, whose tunnel connecting Brooklyn and Manhattan could be closed for repairs until next fall.
There was no confusion whatsoever about the context of our conversation - and his acknowledgment of his involvement in Bitcoin". Nakamoto kept a low profile in part to avoid the attention of authorities, Newsweek said.
The state authority is very weak and is absent.... There's a lack of political acknowledgment of the presence of the LRA in the area".
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