Most prominently, Judge Jed S. Rakoff rejected the settlement of a fraud case brought against Citigroup by the S.E.C. that let the bank avoid an acknowledgment that it did anything wrong.
Although this is a breach of United Nations sanctions, Cuba's quick acknowledgment suggested that it does not want the incident to inflame its relations with the United States".Having been told for 50 years that communism is the way, there's a natural resistance to change," says Orlando Márquez, the spokesman for Havana's Catholic archbishop.
The rising divorce rate could simply be an acknowledgment that marriage doesn't work for everyone.
Despite the hate messages I have been receiving, overtime, with persistence and stubbornness, I seem to have gained a reluctant acknowledgment that I do actually believe in what I say.
I have attempted with each editorial to give a different perspective on the issues to date and really try to inform, educate, and, if nothing else, simply provide acknowledgment that I do appreciate and understand the issues of interest to our readership, authors, and reviewers.
Mrs. Putney said she now spent two summer months in Canada, an acknowledgment that did not take her opponents by surprise.
It is a welcome acknowledgment that "natural" does not always mean "safe".
This is said to make it impossible to move the permanent secretary (Cameron tried the alternative of moving Duncan Smith last year, but failed), since it would be an acknowledgment that what does happen, discreetly, is the new rule – that top officials are becoming political appointees.
And there needs to be some acknowledgment that diversity doesn't mean assimilation.
