India's government, reluctant perhaps to admit it has been taken in, suggests it was the Pakistani army's idea to send hundreds of fighters to grab Indian mountain peaks.
You'd be prompted, perhaps, to admit something about yourself — the fact that you were doing Jenny Craig, for instance, and had to sneak the packaged food into your office microwave when no one was paying attention.
It would be as well, perhaps, not to admit how exceptional a face these women present to a watching world.
But what really seems to have paved the way for the verdict, and the murder itself, is perhaps harder to admit: deeply ingrained discrimination against Armenians, which incited both the threats against Dink and the negligent reaction to them.
It, on the other hand, is far more like real life than we'd perhaps care to admit.
But when it comes to the general elections in November, our state-by-state patchwork of voting traditions and procedures shares more with the Kenyan process than we'd perhaps like to admit.
First, fear of the dark is perhaps difficult to admit to in public, given the need to present oneself as a mature, coping adult, but in more private settings, participants were more willing to speak about how darkness affected their mobility: often prefaced by an apologetic 'I don't know if this is just me…'.
Or, perhaps, to even admit that we were the notorious Manitoba Murderers (I have no idea if there were ever a criminal duo known as the Manitoba Murderers -- but at that point, I probably would have admitted to being a member).
As the author of a book dedicated to the pleasures of summer food, I should perhaps be ashamed to admit this, but I am not.
And unlike, say, the name of a hot new restaurant, clients don't usually talk up the service, perhaps too embarrassed to admit they spend a small fortune on keeping party clothes in museum-quality conditions.
The gender difference may be explained, in part, by the fact that women are better than men at remembering their dreams, and perhaps more willing to admit that they have nightmares.
