"In my mind, if it wasn't for my friends in the [LGBTQ] community, I would have fallen into a bigger 'depression' than I did before," she acknowledged.
I mourned what cepacia meant for us long before I could acknowledge what it meant for Thomas: the devastation it forecast.
… It will be years before I can acknowledge that in preserving such evidence I document another, different emotional transaction: not one of love but of rage, my rage over always receiving directives disguised as gifts and my refusal, ultimately, to accept them.
Spending three hours wedged into a seat that cannot physically accommodate your legs may not technically qualify as medieval torture, but it's a close call.Having moaned about this topic countless times before, I should at this point acknowledge two common rebuttals to my complaint.
"We should have done it before," she acknowledged with a shake of her head.
Institutional racism had never before been acknowledged by government or by official inquiry.
India viewed that as an affirmation of its sovereignty over Sikkim, which India says China has never before acknowledged.
"Talking babies have been done before," acknowledged Tor Myhren, chief creative officer at the E*Trade agency, Grey New York, part of the Grey Global unit of the WPP Group.
Now I've said something like this before (I need to acknowledge that because I might otherwise be accused of self-plagiarism, a new entry in the catalogue of professional sins) but it bears repeating: Journalism isn't built on imaginative originality.
I have not acknowledged before because I wanted to be able to talk from experience.
