Sentence examples for candid acknowledgment from inspiring English sources

It was his most candid acknowledgment of the often-shadowy talks between American diplomats and the Taliban.

The "Petite" is not only a tribute to its Chinatown forebear but also a candid acknowledgment: The one-story brick pillbox of a building looks mousy and insignificant, almost hidden behind a lighted awning that merely says "Chinese Restaurant".

Mr. Gates's assessment was an unusually candid acknowledgment from a senior member of President Bush's cabinet that the war in Iraq had exacted a direct and significant political cost, even among Washington's closest allies.

Attorney general Eric Holder's confession, in Senate testimony last year, that the kingpins of high finance were "too big to jail", was a candid acknowledgment of the impotence of such officials.

The place to begin is with a candid acknowledgment to Americans that the C.I.A. and F.B.I., for all their redoubled efforts, have found it exceedingly difficult to detect and disrupt terror plots as they are unfolding.

"This was a remarkably candid acknowledgment of how much he intends to exploit the political value of his posture as the only effective warrior in the war against terror," said David M. Kennedy, a professor of history at Stanford.

Some "confessions" have also been taken from the arrested aid workers, though upon inspection, at least a few of them seem less than candid acknowledgments of proselytizing.

Could this natural rivalry be why Freedland sees Greenberg's candid acknowledgments of emotional vicissitudes and struggles with rivals as unnecessary gloating, while I see them as refreshing and frank?

But he ends up so far from this theme that a potentially glorious scene, a sermon on water as a metaphor for love in the mission church of St Xavier del Bac, becomes an aside in a chapter about junk food and barrios.As Mr Shoumatoff admits in his engagingly candid acknowledgments, his book was overseen by a variety of editors and draws from several long articles written for magazines.

China's increasingly vocal and assertive posture was a defining theme of the meeting, as was the candid American acknowledgment that the recovery of the United States — essential for global economic growth — requires outside help.

The acknowledgment that these dramatic differences exist is [p509] a candid recognition that the Court's decision today is wholly without precedent.