Sentence examples for gave recognition from inspiring English sources

In their Oscar acceptance speeches, Sidney Poitier, Denzel Washington and Halle Berry gave recognition to the shoulders they stood on of African-American artists who preceded them.

The new law formally condemned the Franco regime, gave recognition to victims on both sides and offered support to their relatives.

They also gave recognition to the social importance of the functions performed by lawyers and identified those who were qualified to perform them.

The award gave recognition to the work done by the two English ballet teachers who were the company's founders, Gweneth Lloyd and Betty Farrally.

As early as the 1950s, the country gave recognition to its national treasures, providing a modicum of protection for the unique know-how of generations of artists and craftsmen.

For most of us judges, the prize gave recognition to a significant and consistently challenging writer, whose experiments with vernacular speech and internal monologue had produced some of the most stubbornly interesting work in recent British fiction.

It is an art not given recognition.

Let's give recognition to this outstanding athlete.

He started Mademoiselle Gymnast in 1965, giving recognition to women in the sport.

Mr. Goldblatt has talked instead about his "sometimes perverse, even quixotic notion of giving recognition".

There are 137 U.N. member nations that have given recognition to a Palestinian state.