Mr. Bo Kyi, who fled Myanmar 13 years ago, says he is waiting for Myanmar's leaders — many of whom were top generals during the days of military rule — to acknowledge and make amends for imprisonments, torture and many other abuses.
For decades the Whitney Biennial was restricted to American artists, and it's worth noting that Lisa Phillips, now the director of the New Museum, was one of the first Whitney curators to bend that rule — and to acknowledge the broader political significance of the word "American" — by including Canadian and Mexican artists in the show, in 1997.
While Federal Trade Commission rules require endorsers to acknowledge the compensation they receive in return for giving favorable plugs for a product, enforcement is minimal.
In Ethiopia, ICIJ revealed in January, the bank's internal Inspection Panel found that the World Bank had repeatedly violated its own rules in failing to acknowledge the link between a bank-funded health and education initiative and violent evictions targeting indigenous peoples.
It will continue to do so even if a new accounting rule forces companies to acknowledge that options are not free.
This news is really too much for the movie to assimilate, especially given its generally lighthearted take on Rachel's sexuality, but "Georgia Rule" is nonetheless trying to acknowledge the awful as well as the amusing dimensions of experience in a way that very few mainstream comedies would dare.
Adopting any such rule would lead us to acknowledge as fair a system of bets that foreseeably leads to certain loss.
Before learning about Canadian history, know all about the American Revolution.You see, the American Revolution is not as black and white as one may think.While most of the people living in the American colonies wanted to separate from British rule, some still wanted to acknowledge the King of England.These people became to be known as "Empire Loyalists".
Thus, to get the Senate to agree that what it is doing is adopting "new rules" is to get it to acknowledge — at least in words — that it is not a "continuing body".
But as in other debates pitting right against left, liberal advocates like Mr. Goddard and Paul Helmke, president of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, seem on the defensive in the film, forced to pursue half-measures like changing gun-show rules while bending over backward to acknowledge their opponents' reasonableness.
