There has been acknowledgment closer to home, too, with the FA scheduling a match between an amateur representative team and Civil Service FC to mark the 150th anniversary of the first ever fixture played under FA rules.
Might his gesture have been an acknowledgment that, as an impending free agent, Thursday could have been his last game as an Angel?
In what might have been an acknowledgment that cephalopod hype is an inescapable feature of local life, he jerked his thumb toward his companion and added, "He lives four doors down from the Octomom".
But in the end, Ms. Rice's most effective argument may have been her acknowledgment that the country did not have the political will to organize against terrorism until blood was shed on American soil.
"A fair reply to what we have done would have been some acknowledgment of the achievement," said Mullah Muhammad Hassan, the governor of Kandahar Province and one of the Taliban's top figures.
Still, letting it stand would have been an acknowledgment of the government of the day's mandate to do the best it could, by its own lights, to meet our nation's challenges.
Why pay £1 when you can get the best of the Indy for 20p?" There is understood to have been an acknowledgment internally that there could be some loss of the Independent's paid-for circulation, which stands at 95,864, with speculation that over the long term if i is successful that an acceptable level of circulation could be 75,000.
Late last week, after the revelations of the Nauru files, the Malaysia arrangement's most vocal opponent, the then opposition leader Tony Abbott, questioned whether he was wrong to oppose the deal, saying:"Letting it stand would have been an acknowledgment of the government-of-the-day's mandate to do the best it could, by its own lights, to meet our nation's challenges.
There have been endless acknowledgments of the atrocity, and meaningful gestures of restitution.
Pressed as to what Mozart might have thought, Duncan felt sure there would have been criticisms but maybe acknowledgment that "this isn't too bad..
