The narrator hasn't seen him for years, and doesn't at first recognize him.
You can first recognize it, then you name it and then you manage it".
When we speak about making a house a home, we must first recognize everyone who is in the house.
The lovers first recognize their union when they kneel side by side in a little chapel, as the film shifts smoothly from romantic comedy to melodrama.
We are so good that it is almost impossible to unrecognize a face in order to notice the asymmetries that help us first recognize it.
"We will first recognize how simple the universe is," Dr. Wheeler has often said, "when we recognize how strange it is".
Well, first, recognize that this has become a judgment call so the answer is no longer obvious or mandated by logic.
"We do, first, recognize that Hezbollah has a number of different dimensions to it: as a political party, as a social welfare organization," Mr. Burns told reporters in Beirut earlier this month.
As global citizens, we must first recognize the need to do something now about meeting the basic needs of the world's poor by putting money where it's needed the most, regardless of good governance.
But successive U.S. presidents have come under pressure from the powerful Armenian diaspora and nationalists who insisted Turkey first recognize that the 1915 massacre of Armenians was a genocide before restoring ties.
True, learning is fun, exhilarating and gratifying — but it is also often daunting, exhausting and sometimes discouraging.... To help chronically low-performing but intelligent students, educators and parents must first recognize that character is at least as important as intellect".
