But even though he said he harbored great respect for Garrard and wished he would have had more of an opportunity to learn from him, Sanchez surely recognized that Garrard's retirement improved his chances of remaining with the team.
With the election two weeks away, and the C.I.A.'s potential intelligence failures in the fatal ambush of American's diplomats in Libya a campaign issue, Petraeus surely recognized that if he resigned the scandal would shake the Obama Administration, perhaps giving more fodder to its Republican critics in what appeared to be an extremely close election.
He surely recognizes that being identified with a successful effort to win back Congress and to keep the White House could restore at least some of the luster to a man who was so long described in Washington as a political genius.
But, even as he bristled and grumbled, Conrad surely recognized that, despite the preoccupation of some admirers with the islands he had glimpsed and the storms he had survived, things were also looking good for the prophecy he had set down twenty years before: "This is my creed.
First of all, the experiment is doomed to failure from the beginning, in a way; the Provost surely recognizes that much of the social web is accessible via smartphone, and text messages have largely replaced instant messenger applications (although within dorms, they are still well-used) for quick communication.
He also surely recognizes that substance abuse or run-ins with the law can touch anyone, including his own family.
Surely no one in Lake Wobegon would recognize that kind of extremism.
As a prime run producer, Rodriguez has immense value at that position, which the Yankees surely recognize.
She begins the chorus of "Run Myself Into the Ground" by singing, "I ain't gonna change for nobody at all" -- an avowal that Mr. Adams would surely recognize, a bit ruefully, from his current vantage.
He's a villain these days, isn't he?" Then she notes that "21" has sold its 10 millionth copy worldwide, and that it wouldn't have happened without her ex — a steely notion of the high road that Beyoncé would surely recognize.
