"Rather than acknowledging defeat, the intelligence officers wanted to double down on a failed approach," Eichenwald writes.
And we berate ourselves for putting on flab, rather than acknowledging that it's normal to have a bit of it.
Familiar, too, is the misattribution of blame to the individual, rather than acknowledging the wider causes of their situation.
She says that most sleep experts treat the problem as behavioral, rather than acknowledging biology also may be at play.
Rather than acknowledging Obamacare's successes, he played on voter concerns about rising premiums, large deductibles, and restricted doctor choice.
Rather than acknowledging her statelessness, they have given Siba travel documents that identify her as a Syrian refugee.
Rather than acknowledging a problem, the school boards thought the appropriate conduct for these situations is to turn the other way.
Rather than acknowledging residual pain or lingering trauma, we're urged to embrace each story as a wake-up call or a breakthrough on the road to self-fulfillment.
It didn't help when he frequently accused opponents of ill will or set up straw men rather than acknowledging his opponents' real arguments.
Rather than acknowledging that it persists, he labels those (largely black) residents who couldn't flee their impoverished neighborhoods as those who are not "ambitious and organized".
In the colonial period, people, systems and beliefs from the continent were all pushed into the same category of "African" rather than acknowledging the huge differences between them.
