Child was if anything understating when in the acknowledgments she called DeVoto "our foster mother, wet nurse, guide and mentor".
This form of acknowledgment was called an impensis, Latin for "at the expense of".
In her acknowledgments, Sandberg calls Scovell her "writing partner".
(Carey acknowledges his indebtedness to many Tocquevillian sources, and has woven into the text what, in his acknowledgments, he calls "distinctive threads, necklaces of words which were clearly made by the great man himself").
In a section called "Acknowledgments, Notes and Selected Sources" and in an Amazon.com defense of similar work in "Her Name, Titanic," he says that his imagined scenes are based on correspondence in what he calls the "Lord/Pellegrino files," referring to Walter Lord, the well-known author of "A Night to Remember".
Every photograph is a memento mori, an acknowledgment of what Susan Sontag called "time's relentless melt".
Raymond called for acknowledgment of local NGOs, transparency of aid spending and a greater focus on the recovery process beyond the initial search and rescue efforts.
Verizon said the "vast majority" of the erroneous charges were incurred when software that was preloaded on some phones automatically contacted Verizon's data service in what the company called an "acknowledgment" session.
Advocates who have been pressing the government in and out of court to be more open about its use of force overseas called the acknowledgment a small step toward transparency.
In the fall of 1988, Seinfeld received the ultimate acknowledgment for a comic: NBC called, wanting to develop a show with him.
