But even his opposition to the president on that issue served as an acknowledgment of how Trump had defined the terms of political combat.
Coincidentally enough, the embargo was lifted the same year that the American Basketball Association, a competitor to the N.B.A., introduced its slam-dunk contest, which served as an official acknowledgment of the entertainment value of what had developed from an unstoppable scoring technique into a creative, almost artistic act.
It served as a tacit acknowledgment that the mythic Southern narrative Mr. Fogerty has explored since the late 1960's, the riverboat dream of "Proud Mary" and the voodoo hallucination of "Born on the Bayou," was a tall tale from beginning to end.
U.S. efforts to negotiate a cease-fire in Syria with Russia have divided Obama administration officials and served as a tacit acknowledgment that Moscow's intervention succeeded in one of its principal aims: ensuring that Russian President Vladimir Putin will be in position to influence any Syria endgame.
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The move would also serve as a long-overdue acknowledgment of the contributions black women have always made to the Democratic Party, doing much of the work in exchange for very little credit or influence.
Can we claim to be 'braver,' better people than the dead?" (53).In fact, death is seldom mentioned in mainstream breast cancer discourse, whose survival rhetoric elides the large number of fatalities, the acknowledgment of which might serve as an incentive to demand more research for environmental causes.
Privacy, rather than serve as an abstract, preexisting notion to which we can rely, depends on the tacit acknowledgment that we don't reveal everything about ourselves.
But Mr. Kase, who once served as an adviser to Yasuhiro Nakasone, the former prime minister, said that he disagreed with certain parts of Judge Pal's conclusions, including his acknowledgment of the Nanjing massacre.
Technological norms may serve as an example.
He does so with acerbic yet uproarious humor, which serves as a mask for the bitter acknowledgments that arise — the peculiar combination of blind willfulness and normative narrowness that courses through the industry in private and spills out onto the world's movie screens.
