Before there might be legislation, the country would need to clear another, far more basic hurdle: simple acknowledgement that a problem — of gun violence, of racism — exists at all.
"They are frank and clinical, and were hard to look at," she says, adding that their value lies in the basic acknowledgement the images provide that Rowan existed.
Sony has made it waterproof and flapless – an acknowledgement that too many flaps can be fiddly.
But despite the obligatory acknowledgement that "art people talk bollocks sometimes", his approach remains relentlessly conventional.
This is consistent with the growing acknowledgement that the basic human infrastructure of health systems in SSA must be strengthened if global ART coverage targets are to be met.
But proposing that the state should meet some or all of people's basic living costs would be an implicit acknowledgement that work alone cannot possibly deliver the collective security that the left has always seen as its basic mission, and that space has to be created for the other elements of people's lives.
Despite global acknowledgement that IPV is a basic human rights violation, this is not explicit in Tanzanian law [ 24, 60].
In her investigative analysis of the relative success Portugal has had in stemming opioid-related deaths, Susana Ferriera writes that the country's progress can be attributed to a few basic factors, one of which is a social acknowledgement "that an individual's unhealthy relationship with drugs often conceals frayed relationships with loved ones, with the world around them, and with themselves".
So as far as there is a general consensus about these things, when Mr Stern advocates a negotiating process that "cannot guarantee" a 2C goal, one way of seeing that is as an acknowledgement that governments shouldn't aim to fulfil the basic objective of the UN climate convention; which is obviously political dynamite.
Foremost amongst the consensus statements was the acknowledgement that adequate nutrition across the life cycle is a basic human right and integral to the achievement of the MDGs.
