Sentence examples for recognise the extent from inspiring English sources

He didn't recognise the extent of his own talent.

My parents would not recognise the extent of my patience.

And he pays tribute to what Mandela did to get South Africans to recognise the extent of the Aids problem.

The 1956 Tokyo Olympics took place just as that city was beginning to recognise the extent of its industrial effluent challenges.

John Swinney, Scotland's deputy first minister, said: "I think the SFA should recognise the extent of the actions that various clubs have taken individually to examine previous conduct in handling these issues.

If Libyan success provides encouragement for engagement in the Maghreb, it is as well to recognise the extent to which the Anglo-French effort was heavily dependent on American support in such matters as communications, intelligence and logistics.

It has at last recognised the extent of France's fiscal problems.

Even the mayor of London, Boris Johnson, has recognised the extent to which London's economy depends on the labour of immigrant and undocumented workers and has proposed an amnesty.

I've never heard the word terrorism used in that context, but on the other hand it is used to evoke this sense of danger coming from the outside without ever recognising the extent to which the history of the United States has been a history of terror against indigenous people, a history of terror against people of African descent".

Having wanted to write all his life, he was faced with a cancer diagnosis shortly after his first book was swept away on the whirlwind of an international award-winning literary sensation and he recognised the extent to which his time might be limited.

However, others argue that money shortages should not cause a failure to listen to clear warnings and should not have caused months of delay in recognising the extent of the Ebola epidemic.