Sentence examples for passing acknowledgment from inspiring English sources
There is almost a decision to avoid, to turn the head, to give just passing acknowledgment to religious sentiments offering compassion and comfort (look at all the wax drippings from votive candles) and to overlook completely the religious hatred that lay behind the attacks (which is invisible here, and which, one ventures to guess, will be largely absent on Sunday).
Whether George Orwell's "Homage to Catalonia" has passed into the public realm or even literary oblivion, it would have been nice to see Tara McKelvey, in her review of Jonathan Rabb's novel "The Second Son" (Feb. 13), give passing acknowledgment to this essential "predecessor" to any discourse on the Spanish Civil War — fiction or not.
His passing acknowledgment helped diffuse the covert threat.
In the end, however, with no agreement reached by the end of the year, Republicans reluctantly agreed to around $620 billion in tax increases on the rich over 10 years without any accompanying cuts—something the president made only a passing acknowledgment of when calling for further revenue.
Wolfman Jack is mentioned for his role in "American Graffiti" and his brief dalliance with WNBC in New York, but there is only a passing acknowledgment of his long career in Mexican border radio, which could be heard from San Antonio to Buffalo.
It helped to have encouragement from friends who said I must not let abusive incidents pass without acknowledgment.
Would it have been too much to expect something similar from Chief Justice Roberts and his allies on the Supreme Court bench, some acknowledgment in passing that the Texas Regents didn't pluck the notion of affirmative action out of thin air and were trying to do what they believed was not only appropriate but, under the Supreme Court's precedents, perfectly legal?
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But it was impossible for Easter Sunday to pass with no acknowledgment of his death from the pulpit.
He's joined on stage by singer Joanne Robertson, a regular collaborator, but no acknowledgment passes between them.
So of all the emotions that surged through the seven-story building at 621 East 105th Street when a desiccated body that was little more than bones was finally pulled from Mr. Gales's apartment on Saturday — horror, indignation and regret that a life had passed without any acknowledgment — surprise was not among them.
