Sentence examples for gesture acknowledging from inspiring English sources

The front of the stage was dotted with Kleenex boxes — a wry gesture acknowledging that opening night was a week late.

"Michael's family would like to thank the Bahrain International Circuit for this gesture, acknowledging Michael's achievements in Formula 1 and interest in the BIC circuit design," she said.

In Cairo the sharif of Mecca presented Selim with the keys to that holy city, a symbolic gesture acknowledging Selim as the leader of the Islāmic world.

In a gesture acknowledging the exceptional nature of the order, the buildings commissioner, Patricia J. Lancaster, walked through the building herself yesterday morning.

It was a symbolic gesture acknowledging the importance of this document -- and what it represents in the history of mankind.

The gesture acknowledged Matsui's fame while making him feel at home.

From UAE's perspective, the gesture acknowledged economic, political and security realities.

Ms. Gillot, in velvet gown, throws off a black hat and cloak, grows increasingly tense in her gestures, acknowledges an imaginary ovation and retreats into a doorlike square.

"There is a general tendency in the United States to define problems of censorship as essentially foreign problems," Adichie said, in what seemed a gesture towards acknowledging that.

That simple gesture of acknowledging someone as not just a charity case, but a fellow human being, suffering the heartbreak of enforced separation, is what has driven so many to join Pearce in his efforts.

Latin America and Eastern Europe, and in particular the avant-garde movements there after World War II, have a significant presence in a show that defines "contemporary" as a state of mind rather than as a date, and that at least makes a gesture toward acknowledging modernity as an intercultural phenomenon, not an export from the West.