"better off recognizing" is a grammatically correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It means someone or something would benefit from recognizing or acknowledging a particular fact or situation. Example: Instead of denying your mistake, you would be better off recognizing it and taking responsibility for your actions.
If the award seeks to challenge us to really consider the state of women in Architecture today and take on the pioneering sprit of its namesake, then the AJ Panel would be better off recognizing an Architect-Pioneer who is approaching the profession on different terms.
For most practical purposes — hiring and managing, selling to, creating products for — your company may be better off recognizing more discrete and meaningful characteristics in workers and customers than simply the year of their birth.
Instead, we may be better off recognizing that our process of critique in the method of wide reflective equilibrium is explicit about exposing the sources of bias and historical accident to criticism and revision, rather than fooling ourselves into thinking that desires are some sort of morally-uninfluenced layer of "facts".
American politicians, and the American people, would be much better off recognizing this, rather than using demagoguery to sow divisiveness between China and the U.S. The 21st century has no place for tiresome dated Cold War rhetoric.
The company would have been far better off recognizing a hero who had the courage and foresight to address the larger implications of this fraud before this became public.
American politicians, and the American people, would be much better off recognizing this, rather than succumbing to demagoguery and incendiary rhetoric aimed at creating divisiveness between China and the U.S. *Daniel Wagner is CEO of Country Risk Solutions and co-author of the forthcoming book "Global Risk Agility and Decision Making".
They, and we, would be better off by universally recognizing travel as a unifying force for good.
Now, thanks to a new generation of technology, the lights and the signs are more spectacular than ever, and I wonder if we wouldn't be better off if architects recognized this, and let the new buildings recede even more than the old ones did.
It's at this point that Nick, who may not be quite as arrogant as his father thinks, begins to absorb the simple lesson that even if you run away from your family, they're always with you — and you're better off once you recognize and accept that fact.
In his Sept. 20 farewell speech to the U.N. General Assembly, Obama appeared to oppose Israel's permanent occupation and settlements, saying, "Surely Israelis and Palestinians will be better off if Palestinians reject incitement and recognize the legitimacy of Israel … (and if) Israel recognizes that it cannot permanently occupy and settle Palestinian land".
"It's a continuation of moving people forward and recognizing they're better off for having done so".
