Many suspected a few weeks ago that they were allowing banks to recognise only the losses they could afford to cover from existing capital and provisions.
The EU, US and others recognise only the Libyan government, which is based in the eastern cities of Tobruk and al-Bayda.
The biggest reason the first apologies from the Philippines were dismissed was that they did not formally come from the government, because of its "one China" policy of recognising only the government in Beijing.
There were disagreements: in particular, over Turkey's dream of joining the European Union, which Mr Denktash abominated because the EU insisted on recognising only the Greek-Cypriot part of the island, which had joined in 2004.
It's business as usual for the industry, with little that Colonel Tom Parker or even Guy Debord wouldn't recognise, only the shrieks sound ever shriller as the pace at which pop will eat itself still quickens.
A few fine Nigerian writers and artists help to pierce the ignorance, but mostly we recognise only the stench of corruption that drifts in from the oilfields of the Niger delta or the desperation embedded in those scam emails.
To break that paradox – to morally recognise only the woman's rights in that situation – it seems to me we need to reject male rights and, with that, we must surely reject male responsibility.
This year the Booker was opened up to US authors, after 45 years of recognising only the work of writers from UK, Ireland and Commonwealth countries, and the lack of diversity, including the paltry number of women, is alarming.
But because the sialic acid found in birds is chemically different from that in mammals, and because bird flu has evolved to recognise only the avian variety, it cannot stick easily to mammalian cells, limiting its ability to infect people.The researchers wanted to know what it would take to enhance that ability.
