Sentence examples for held to acknowledge from inspiring English sources

"In representing society as a whole, it was right to consider if historic anniversaries should pass unmarked at the assembly when a range of events are being held to acknowledge them elsewhere," he said.

Although Thomas was required to profess obedience to Lanfranc and Lanfranc's successors, the obedience did not mention nor was held to acknowledge any primacy of Canterbury, and it did not bind Thomas' successors.

The purpose of the Act has been held to acknowledge and guarantee the Indian tribes' right of occupancy... and clearly there can be no meaningful guarantee without a corresponding federal duty to investigate and take such action as may be warranted in the circumstances.

But during a hearing last month in State Superior Court in New Haven, where the trial is to be held, he seemed to acknowledge that the court of public opinion may already have come to a judgment about Mr. Komisarjevsky.

The UNICEF-AJI Awards are held each year to acknowledge excellence in reporting about child rights issues.

Burma's rulers have always cynically refused to acknowledge holding any political prisoners at all.

He went missing after the incident with authorities refused to acknowledge holding him.

The most intense confrontation came in August 2006 when she urged Mr. Bush to acknowledge holding Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and other terrorism suspects in secret prisons overseas.

"Under international law, authorities commit an enforced disappearance when they refuse to acknowledge holding someone in custody or conceal the person's fate or whereabouts, thereby placing them outside the protection of the law and increasing the risk of torture or ill-treatment," Swerdlow said.

We believe these accidental factors have had a significant role in our success and therefore hold them as important to acknowledge and document.

Not quite, I would say; I think of cockroach ideas as misconceptions held because the people holding them are just unaware of basic facts, while zombie ideas are held by people who refuse to acknowledge contrary evidence).