But they are asking too for acknowledgement of slights past and present.
"He never asked for public acknowledgement or anything like that," says Batmanghelidjh.
"I felt asking someone who has not played consistently to play three full games within eight days would be asking for trouble, injury-wise," Mowbray said, in an acknowledgement that Keane will start when Hearts visit Parkhead on Wednesday.
"Not once did he ask for credits or acknowledgement".
The need for acknowledgement is fundamental.
Despite some literary crossover in terms of sex-crazed male protagonists, we take it Martin Amis is probably not a James fan. "This book is dedicated to those readers who asked … and asked … and asked … and asked for this," writes the author in the acknowledgements of Grey.
During the ceremony, in acknowledgement of the controversy, Rev. David Goatt" Carson asked for a sign from the Buffalo Nation that this coming together in Unity was good medicine for the people.
First came the lecture on fame's perils, quickly followed by an acknowledgement of his complicity: Police escorts, everybody passports This the life that everybody ask for This a fast life, we are on a crash course What you think I rap for, to push a... RAV4?
When the England forwards coach Graham Rowntree, who worked with O'Connell on two Lions tours, was asked for a few thoughts on the man who stands in his country's way this weekend, there was an honest acknowledgement of his gifts.
"Begging for acknowledgement, or even asking, diminishes dignity and diminishes power.
