Sentence examples for legally acknowledged from inspiring English sources

For the government, which had never legally acknowledged indigenous rights to land, this was the way things were done.

The most vocal defenders of "comfort women" might also regret that the agreement does not include direct government compensations from Japan – a sign that responsibility may not be legally acknowledged.

Howard Menaker, a Delaware wedding officiant ordained by the Universal Life Church, who married his partner, Patrick Gossett, in Washington, said, "For the first few years we will acknowledge that each gay wedding is legally acknowledged by the state and federal government, but I think eventually it will become unremarkable".

Also, not all countries worldwide have legally acknowledged sexual harassment to begin with.

In case you need a refresher: after the death of her partner of more than 40 years, Edie Windsor was ordered to pay $363,000 in taxes because her marriage was not legally acknowledged.

I have married same-sex couples who reside in Maine, but who have to leave the state on their wedding day in order to have their marriage legally acknowledged.

And largely, Povilat said, the goodwill has held out, even in one of the last states to legally acknowledge their relationship.

But buyers legally acknowledge this information disadvantage.

In many cases this means that tribes are able to legally acknowledge their protection of and interaction with land spaces in their aboriginal territory.

Because we repealed DADT -- which, mind you, only is paving the way for the gay soldiers already serving in the military to legally acknowledge their own existence -- flocks of blackbirds, with their pea-sized brains, are suffering a crisis of "flock cohesion".

Registering a birth serves as an effective civil mechanism that legally acknowledges a person's existence, enables a child to possess a birth certificate, establishes the child's family ties, and tracks life's major milestones from birth through marriage and death.