Even a faux-gay Bollywood film is a marker of a changing India that these Supreme Court judges firmly refused to acknowledge.
This means that SFI's focus for the next 4 years is firmly on producing tangible economic benefits, Gannon acknowledges.
She acknowledges having had financial struggles, but those seem firmly in the past.
Without drawing much attention to it yet, one of the leading groups promoting same-sex marriage has taken an interesting tack, one that implicitly acknowledges the complicated relationship between gay Americans and another minority group not firmly on their side.
The National Urban League acknowledges that there is still much work to be done to achieve racial equality, but also expresses that it firmly understands that rolling back on even small gains is a step in the wrong direction.
Mr Ishizuka acknowledges that the company is taking a risk, though given that Hitachi knows how to build advanced boiling water reactors and that it now owns the land on which to build them, he is firmly optimistic.
He liked to let callers have their say, drawing them out with friendly questioning before gently acknowledging, when necessary, that he firmly disagreed.
"The Chinese government and the Chinese people firmly oppose [the ruling] and will neither acknowledge it nor accept it," it added.
Without acknowledging any specific ailment, he said firmly, "I'll do this from a wheelchair.
He acknowledged that he had pushed Tomlinson firmly, but said he had not expected him to fall.
