Sentence examples for dare to acknowledge from inspiring English sources

David Remnick wrote Sunday about Havel's life, which provided our most eloquent explanation of why totalitarianism must be total, why it depends, at bottom, not on the number of guns and tanks at the regime's disposal, but on the consistent denial of reality, on the mixture of fear and ritual that raise the costs for any one person to dare to acknowledge that the emperor wears nothing at all.

Therefore, as Weyl repeatedly emphasized, no solution to the problem of motion is possible, unless "we dare to acknowledge the inertial structure as a real thing that not only exerts effects upon matter but in turn suffers such effects".

Although a growing number of initiates are whites, few multi-denominational churches dare to acknowledge it.

Because for the first time since Sept. 11, a Muslim leader has dared to acknowledge publicly the real problem: that Muslim extremism has been rooted in the educational systems and ruling arrangements of many of their societies, and it has left much of the Muslim world in a backward state.

On this subject, in "Avoiding Apocalypse on the Korean Peninsula" consider what Tom Dispatch regular Rajan Menon, author of The Conceit of Humanitarian Intervention, has to say about why diplomacy and actual negotiations hold out a kind of hope that few have cared, or dared, to acknowledge in the present crisis.

I think we have had really good discussions within the group and talked about things that individually we might not have dared to talk about, perception of our bodies or whatever... Yes, and then in some way to be able to say, 'I don't feel good about this.' And that's been really good, because you wouldn't dare to say it to someone else, haven't even dared to acknowledge it to oneself.

Staring into the camera, Chidiac seems to dare us to acknowledge that she, like so many Lebanese women, is still here, despite the trauma that she has suffered and the persistent instability of her homeland.

It is ironic that industries whose front groups accuse us of bullying are themselves pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into elections, for the plainly avowed purpose of threatening and punishing elected officials who dare to cross them and acknowledge the dangers of carbon-driven climate change.