But even as he did so, the judge, Ivan L. R. Lemelle of Federal District Court in New Orleans, told his own history of displacement and loss, acknowledging that the election, with its shifting and destroyed polling places, its thousands of absentee ballots not yet mailed and its participants scattered throughout the country, would be far from perfect.
And he gently called upon his party to continue to seek lessons in his loss, acknowledging that "as someone who just lost the last election, I'm probably not in the best position to chart the course for the next one".
If you feel loss, acknowledge it.
PARIS — The French bank Société Générale, facing persistent questions over how a lone, junior trader could have instigated more than $7 billion in losses, acknowledged on Sunday that his activities prompted questions from risk managers several times last year, but that the bank never began an investigation because his explanations defused any suspicions.
Ms. Lauvergeon, who says Areva does not publish the provisions it makes for such losses, acknowledges that the company is unlikely to make money on the project.
"We're coming off of multiple years of staggering losses," acknowledges Wolf.
"We're coming off multiple years of staggering losses," acknowledges Wolf.
After Tuesday's loss, Nowitzki acknowledged that those incidents had been a distraction.
Even even before Monday's loss, O'Reilly acknowledged, with a sense of respect, that Japan's approach, and that of other Asian women's teams, had altered the calculus of the game.
