Southerners who rallied to the song proved reluctant to acknowledge a Yankee as its composer.
Even if the sexual repression we associate with the Victorian era has proven to be a myth, we acknowledge that the perpetuation of myths romantic love, ruling "by divine right"—enables the continued enforcement of supposedly sacred law, primogeniture first of all.
"It goes against conventional wisdom," the professor acknowledges, "but it's proven to be an important piece of work and has been cited already in the key Supreme Court case on racial redistricting.
Whatever the numbers prove to be, analysts acknowledge that the geographic and economic range of damage is vast.
Some of the arguments backing the tech boom ultimately proved to be flawed, he acknowledges, but the analysis holding stock prices up -- that productivity had reached a new level and companies would be able to capture this in higher profits -- was reasonable.
Some governors said they were relying on what they acknowledged could prove to be overly optimistic revenue projections as they struggled to balance their budgets without raising taxes or cutting services.
While the inspector general is forwarding the report to prosecutors, the report appears to acknowledge that proving a criminal case might be hard because the selection process had almost no rules.
That double standard exposes the truly dark forces driving this right-wing anger -- and those on the right who refuse to acknowledge it proves the old adage that there are none so blind as those who will not see.
This, I acknowledge, may well prove to be the case.
The extent of G.M.'s financial crisis, revealed in greater detail in its filing than it acknowledged before, is proving to be far worse than investors and analysts expected just last week.
Mr. Bush heatedly defended his decision to invade Iraq, though he acknowledged what has proved to be a politically traumatic week in which the United States weapons inspector in Iraq issued a report that undermined Mr. Bush's central rationale for taking the country to war -- that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction.
