This is an embarrassing subject.Women are certainly physically inferior to men and if this were not the case the whole history of the world would be different.... Any woman who has ever had her wrist twisted by a man recognizes a fact of nature as humbling as a cyclone to a frail tree branch.
We understand the political pressures, but U.S. policymakers must recognize a basic fact: If highly skilled, job-creating entrepreneurs feel unwelcome in the United States, they will go elsewhere, and workers, investors and consumers in other countries will reap the most rewards from their entrepreneurial endeavors.
To problem skip, you must recognize a key fact: The problem you think you need to solve is probably the wrong one to focus on.
"In my opinion, my colleagues do not want to recognize an evident fact," he said.
For its part, taking North Korea's strategy seriously would require America and her allies to recognize a few unpleasant facts in our attempts to "engage" the Kim Jong Il regime.
"The Bloomberg administration recognized a basic fact of the modern economy, the transition from a large significantly industrial economy to a postindustrial economy," said Daniel L. Doctoroff, the deputy mayor for economic development.
"We begin by recognizing a simple fact: Though this may be the best time ever to be a black man in America (and here comes the all-important fine print), you only prosper if you make it through the gantlet," Cose writes.
To say this is neither to endorse what has happened nor to complain about it, but merely to recognize fact as fact.
Since impressions about a person tend to be integrated into a single characterization, an observer may be jarred by recognizing an undesirable fact about an attractive person and may try either to ignore that fact or to mitigate (rationalize) it.
In vulnerable groups marginalization is often recognized as a fact.
