Humility, in the form of explicit recognition of the limits of your knowledge and influence, is critical.
Even the Twelve Tribes could scarce forbear to cheer this explicit recognition of their usually ignored presence within Jamaican society.
The Obama administration's proposal to provide $12 billion to community colleges is widely seen by educators as explicit recognition of the two-year colleges' importance to the economy.
The explicit recognition of the need for fairness, and even respect, to both the accuser and accused is emerging as a new talking point.
President Abbas' visit also comes days after the Vatican finalised a bilateral treaty with the "state of Palestine" in an explicit recognition of statehood.
This junked the country's longstanding position on Tibet, which, uniquely, had fallen short of an explicit recognition of full Chinese sovereignty.
So Ireland was a single, self-determining unit – and without explicit recognition of that principle the IRA and Sinn Féin could not have been persuaded to accept the agreement – but it took the form of two distinct jurisdictions.
The aim of the Copenhagen talks is to agree an enhanced version of the legally binding UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, and Plan, which is part-funded by DFID, is lobbying to ensure it contains an explicit recognition of the rights of children like Josephine Espinosa to a secure future.
Economists say instead that essential industries ought to be given a direct subsidy to enable them to meet foreign competition, with explicit recognition of the fact that the subsidy is a price paid by the nation in order to maintain the industry for defense purposes.
But the centrepiece of the beautification will be two 24-foot (7.3 metre) steel sculptures which will serve as gateways and nearly 50 smaller sculptures, all decorated with electric lights in the rainbow colours of the gay-pride flag.Why is the first explicit recognition of a gay district in Chicago, and not San Francisco or New York?
Such explicit recognition of the importance of relative poverty could become the Tory version of Labour's so-called Clause IV moment when Mr Blair persuaded his party to give up its historic commitment to nationalising things.In an accompanying paper, Mr Clark produces a critique of Labour's anti-poverty policies, claiming that they have failed to help some of the poorest people in Britain.
