It is a recognition, at long last, that we're all in this together.
While there is a recognition at the club that Martial may represent a gamble, Van Gaal believes he has the potential to be world class.
After a disappointing first season there is a recognition at United that if it is suitable for both parties, a transfer fee will not be requested should Schweinsteiger receive an attractive offer.
An island development officer has been appointed and there is a recognition, at last, that a traditional island community can thrive and be fit to meet the challenges of the 21st century.
Still, there's a recognition at Sandhurst that the army is no longer a career for life and some emphasis is placed on preparing cadets for their demob lives.
There is a recognition at the authority, whose board is appointed by the governors of New York and New Jersey, that its investment in Lower Manhattan is so great now that other New York projects, including the Moynihan Station in Midtown, may have to be delayed.
Tom Smith, managing director of the new campus, said: "There is a recognition at ONS that there is a real opportunity and a real need to step up our game in terms of the way we use those data sources and the techniques and the capacity that we have across ONS and across government.
And there was a recognition at the roundtable that, one way or another, it was time to give them the freedom to do a better job: "We need to take staff out of the silos that we as public sector managers have put them in".
And, he adds, there is a recognition at the "highest levels" that such snippiness is becoming unhelpful.European Union politicians and officials are dismayed that, with a poisonous debate over health reform chewing up his political capital in Congress, Mr Obama may not secure legislation fixing binding emissions targets for America before the climate-change summit in Copenhagen in December.
So there's a recognition at the highest political level in the US that cyber security is of growing importance.
