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In international law, rape committed by state officials can be defined as an act of torture, but in the DRC, rape as an act of torture goes unacknowledged and unprosecuted, according to the report.
This is despite an impressive and sometimes unacknowledged history of progressive social campaigning: in the 1920s, the WI fought for the right for women to sit on juries, and in the 1940s it argued for equal pay.
There's a fear that, if left unacknowledged , these hurts can fester.
With more or less delicacy, the press linked his dramatic personal style (he had a weakness for purple shirts, cherished his friendships with princesses and owned a framed pair of Queen Victoria's stockings) to his unacknowledged homosexuality.St John-Stevas was an unusual man, who would struggle to be selected as a Tory now (for one thing, he was a committed pro-European).
Mr Rollyson and Ms Paddock, predictably, attribute this to Ms Sontag's own unacknowledged lesbianism, noting that she never alludes directly to homosexuality in her essay but, as one might say, plays lightly with the concept rather than confronting it head on.
He believes a silent, unacknowledged "compromise" is, in effect, already in place.
He says start-ups also offer more opportunities and better prospects to Chinese and South Korean engineering students in Japan: "We evaluate people for their skills, not their skins and eyes".Mr Hori goes so far as to suggest that start-ups have played an unacknowledged role in helping to turn around Japan's economy in recent years.
In practice, as a report for the European Union (EU) noted, the camps now provide the setting for "a novel form of unacknowledged detention".
Fortunately, the story of wheat rust albeit punctuated with carelessness and complacency is not just of destruction but also of unacknowledged successes.
But Apple's success would have been impossible without the active role of the state, the unacknowledged enabler of today's consumer-electronics revolution.Consider the technologies that put the smart into Apple's smartphones.
The internment of the Tamil displaced, which the government claims is necessary to weed out the last Tamil Tiger rebels and to protect them from munitions left in their fields, is "a novel form of unacknowledged detention".A final decision on GSP Plus is not due until October.
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The word "unacknowledged" primarily functions as an adjective . It modifies nouns to indicate that something has not been recognized, admitted, or given due credit. As confirmed by Ludwig AI, the word is grammatically correct and used in a variety of contexts.
Expression frequency: Very common
