Sentence examples for forthright acknowledgment from inspiring English sources

But a forthright acknowledgment of the risks is necessary to keep policy makers from venturing too far into dangerous territory.

The majority's opinion was particularly heartening for its forthright acknowledgment that there are other sources of judicial inspiration beyond the country's founders.

He has earned the admiration of colleagues for his forthright acknowledgment this year of his alcoholism and his decision to seek treatment.

Governor Perdue put an end to those questions Monday with a forthright acknowledgment that "these convictions were tainted by naked racism and represent an ugly stain on North Carolina's criminal justice system".

It tells the story of John Bosco McLane, who, in his lonely cottage on a cold winter night, is writing, with sad humility but forthright acknowledgment, the history of his romantic and erotic failures.

During a White House news conference the next day, Obama made his most forthright acknowledgment yet of the substance of the report: "When we engaged in some of these enhanced interrogation techniques, techniques that I believe and I think any fair-minded person would believe were torture, we crossed a line".

What was missing was any forthright acknowledgment of the suffering of Palestinians under a harsh occupation that has abused and humiliated them, denied their fundamental rights, and sucked the very life out of their hopes for the future.

Conservatives have long warned of the dangers involved in a forthright, public acknowledgment that moral complexity requires flexibility.