But officials said the freed captives were high-ranking Taliban members and would have been recognizable as insurgents the United States would want in custody.
And I don't doubt that these would have been recognizable stars, superstars the Alex Rodriguez of their day superstars, flexing their muscles for the public, and hoping to be recognized by everyone who came to this bath.
Today, a study published in Nature Climate Change suggests that, in a matter of decades, the Arctic sea-ice system will have completely departed from the range of variability that would have been recognizable to Franklin and his crew.
His fixation on the faithful rendering of the architecture, which would have been recognizable to any Parisian, also implies a desire to ground this magical ascent in a recognizably modern spectacle.
The building in front of which we stopped, three stories with a severe stone facade, was unmistakably a Government structure; it would have been recognizable as such in the U.S. or Russia.
Yet the higher I climbed into the Albaicin, the more deeply I entered the distinctive precinct I remembered from my earlier stay, a self-contained village that would have been recognizable 800 years ago.
The effect of these images is somewhat surreal; the contrast of the tents and front walks, the longleafs' drooping needles and the smooth yards of sand suggest a kind of domesticity that would have been recognizable to viewers back in New Hampshire.
Even in its early days, many aspects of the movement would have been recognizable to anyone who had been to an anti-globalization protest in the late 90s, or an anti-war gathering a generation before.
