Mr. Newman's measured and partial acknowledgment of accountability goes to the heart of the United States District Court trial, now in its fourth week, to assign responsibility for the disaster.
At those sites, said Emily Walski, an interpretive specialist at Sonoma State Historic Park, "you see more of an acknowledgment of what went on with the Indians in terms of labor".
What Egypt needs at this time is a clear-headed acknowledgment of what went wrong and what is the way forward.
The Jets do not have to make an imminent decision on Tim Tebow, who has yet to be released despite a mutual acknowledgment of an experiment gone awry.
He was benched for much of the first half of Sunday's 30-21 loss to New England in favor of the rookie Jeremy Kerley, and late Tuesday night Mason was traded to the Texans, an acknowledgment of good intentions gone awry.
Do-overs are verbal acknowledgments of situations gone awry with a request for remediation.
And a hand squeeze of acknowledgment can go a long way.
For Vice President Al Gore, the second presidential debate was basically an act of contrition, a sustained and sometimes lightly self-mocking acknowledgment of where he had gone wrong the first time around.
Depressed children need lots of love and care to nurture them through depression, as well as acknowledgment of what they're going through.
It was unclear what level of acknowledgment was going on when she brought the baby into the office and he blew smoke in his face and called him a dud, but Hawaiian shirt-wearing, Pearl-Harbor-Day-slurring Roger tells us it's openly acknowledged.
So is their pressure on Russia to account, say, for the killing of Polish officers at Katyn – even if Soviet and Russian acknowledgment of Stalin's crimes already goes far beyond, for example, any such apologies by Britain or France for the crimes of colonialism.
