It could effectively kill chances for the United States to claim it is an "honest broker" in any future negotiations because it would be acknowledging all of Jerusalem is Israeli, and the Palestinians can forget about claiming part of the city as their capital, too.
Some families delay ordering hospice care because it would force them to acknowledge that the end is near and they just can't deal with that.
"We'd be very pleased if he was to acknowledge his English descendants because, sure enough, we would acknowledge him as being a true Lancastrian in the White House, if he was to make it.
And that, for Scalia, is something that can never be acknowledged, because it would lay bare the game he plays.
In any case, one senior official said, even if the administration concludes that it will never close the prison, it cannot acknowledge that because it would revive Guantánamo as America's image in the Muslim world.
Conservatives cannot acknowledge this because it would lead them to accept the fact that eliminating tax expenditures, even if not accompanied by offsetting tax cuts, might raise growth for the same reason that cutting spending raises growth in their economic model.
Update: In this clip from "Seventeen Moments of Spring," see the struggles of the U.S.S.R.'s most famous spy, SS-Standartenführer Max Otto von Stirlitz, able to see but unable to acknowledge his wife — because it would blow his cover — in a Berlin cafe.
Governments are often loath to even officially acknowledge slum dwellers, because it would imply they should then receive basic infrastructure, said Dr. Patil-Deshmukh, executive director of Partners for Urban Knowledge, Action and Research, a Mumbai urban research and advocacy organization.
But the experts said the state could never acknowledge that in court because it would clearly touch on issues of religious freedom.
Yet he acknowledges that this is unlikely to happen, not least because it would lack political legitimacy.
