Standard-setters worry that auditors would be quick to recognise rises but slow to acknowledge declines.
Obsessed with hunting Communists but slow to acknowledge that there might be a Mafia.
Baseball was notoriously slow to acknowledge the depth of the problem, and the players union long resisted drug testing.
Yes, they were idealists, but most were damnably slow to acknowledge the monstrous truth about the Soviet paradise they defended.
The right was too slow to acknowledge the civil-rights arguments for immigration (as it has been wrong on gay marriage).
But the Chinese banks' ratios are not necessarily directly comparable, bank analysts caution, because Chinese banks are sometimes slow to acknowledge that delinquent loans may not be collectible.
Pincus and other critics complain that a sanctimonious press is quick to wrap itself in the First Amendment but often slow to acknowledge that some secrets are worth keeping.
Certainly, the family of Chandra Ann Levy still cares about her disappearance, but the hot lights have moved off Representative Gary A. Condit, who was very slow to acknowledge their friendship.
In his Hugo Young lecture, at the Guardian's building, on Monday night he seeks to extend this narrative to concentrations of power within public services, a form of power whose abuse old Labour was too slow to acknowledge.
But when in 1985 a civilian US naval analyst, Jonathan Pollard, was revealed as an Israeli spy - something the Israelis were slow to acknowledge - he was put on trial and still languishes in prison.
The medical community was very slow to acknowledge that ulcers could be caused by a bacterial infection.
