The Mayans often performed ritual offerings, as well as sacrifices in scale from symbolic to human sacrifices for a range of reasons such as to appeal to the Gods; to send the victim to Xibalba (the spirit world) with a message or request; to make the sun rise and the growing seasons to come; as a blood debt or acknowledgment to the creators; or to create relations with a particular deity.
PARIS - BNP Paribas, France's largest bank, reported a sharp decline in its third-quarter profit on Thursday and said it was writing off 60 percent of the value of its holdings of Greek debt, a belated acknowledgment that the loans were largely unrecoverable.
In many cases the debt is acknowledged: the German publisher Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus bought the bankrupt encyclopaedia of Gotthelf Renatus Löbel in 1808 and converted it into his famous Konversationslexikon (see Brockhaus Enzyklopädie), though Jesuits adapted Antoine Furetière's Dictionnaire universel without acknowledgment in their Dictionnaire de Trévoux (1704).
The final acknowledgment of debt by the crusty, withholding Cézanne was simpler still.
The government of Dubai said Wednesday that it had asked its banks for a six-month stay on its schedule of debt repayments, in a blunt acknowledgment of the once-booming Middle Eastern emirate's financial woes.
PARIS — BNP Paribas, the largest French lender, announced a sharp decline in third-quarter profit Thursday and said it was writing off 60 percent of the value of all the Greek debt it holds, a belated acknowledgment that the loans are largely unrecoverable.
Bond issues "are presently to be required of Germany in acknowledgment of her debt" of £3,000,000,000 sterling, bearing 2½% interest between 1921 and 1926; and an undertaking to deliver an additional amount of £2,000,000,000 sterling, bearing interest at 5%, under terms to be fixed by the commission.
In this work he expounded the theories of Marx, who was offended, however, because in his view Hyndman did not make the necessary acknowledgment of this intellectual debt.
The title of Mr. Barlow's new solo album, "Emoh" (Merge) is both an acknowledgment of this unpaid debt and a backward reference to one of the album's main themes.
The author's acknowledgments end with this loving coda: "Finally, I want to acknowledge the deep debt I owe in this and everything else I've ever written to the work of the late Jack Kirby, the King of Comics".
Told in a multiplicity of voices (James's acknowledgments note a structural debt to William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying), it draws on the accounts of gang leaders and their members; a CIA operative monitoring the rise of socialism in Jamaica and a Rolling Stone journalist on the trail of a reggae-mad Mick Jagger; groupies, drug dealers, users, murderers, and at least one ghost.
