In a brief and hastily called news conference Monday just after 10 p.m., Mr. Romney acknowledged having made the blunt political and cultural assessment, saying it was "not elegantly stated," but he stood by the substance of the remarks, insisting that he had made similar observations in public without generating controversy.
The same day the article appeared, Dr. McCormick -- at a hastily arranged news conference with his wife by his side -- publicly acknowledged the affair and apologized to Rutgers and the University of Washington for making "a grave personal mistake".
By hastily finding $15m£10m0m) in economic aid for Sidi Bouzid it has, after all, acknowledged that the protesters have a point.
At a hastily arranged news conference at an empty City Hall, Mayor Cory A. Booker acknowledged the fear caused by the shootings and a recent spate of carjackings and robberies in the city.
Of course an understated cashmere coat also possessed the practical, if rarely acknowledged, virtue of camouflaging an outfit that might have been all too hastily assembled in the mad rush of a Fashion Week.
French president François Hollande last year acknowledged the debt his country owes to what was its most profitable colony – but hastily described it as "moral", lest Haitians get carried away with the idea that repayment might be forthcoming.
The Israeli Army acknowledged on Friday that Abed Takkoush, who was a driver and news assistant for the BBC in Lebanon for 25 years, was killed by an artillery shell fired at his car by an Israeli tank on May 23, as Israeli forces were hastily withdrawing from southern Lebanon.
Its creators acknowledge that the episode was hastily produced, and they say it was never intended for broadcast in its rough form.
The panel was organized hastily when the festival's director, Jed Dietz, asked Simon for ideas about how to acknowledge the protests.
One page of a fan website is given to trying to decipher whether or not he's gay – "the truth is that no one really knows because he's not directly answered that question," it puzzles, before adding hastily, "we all love 'Grimmy' either way!" – today, at least, he seems happy to acknowledge that he is.
Many of the Iraqis in the security forces, the Americans acknowledge, are veterans of Mr. Hussein's security forces who have been only hastily vetted for ties to the brutality of the past and given only short courses in Western-style practices and values.
