Then we said to one another, 'There's something bigger than Phil!' " The basic urge to recognize something bigger than Phil still gives theistic theories an audience, even as their explanations of the lightning-maker turn ever gappier and gassier.
Even stroke neurologists have been urged to better recognize cognitive impairment in patients with cerebrovascular disease.
Cardinal Egan called the legislation "humbug" and urged reporters to recognize its flaws.
Another speaker, Chris Robison, senior director for product management and advertising solutions at Adobe Systems, urged Madison Avenue to recognize that "consumers are adopting digital video faster than we are".
But he urged savers to recognize that in some cases, income payments would be coming out of their own capital, and that these funds could decline in value.
(He urged readers "to recognize that the bell tolls even on each man's individual island, to recognize that every man must fear the witness in himself who whispers to close the window").
In Brussels, meanwhile, an unusual gathering of former European leaders, academics and industrialists urged politicians to recognize that part of the answer to Europe's ills was to give up some sovereignty to keep the euro alive.
Omer Celik, a senior party official in Turkey, called the Gaza conflict Turkey's "national issue" and urged Israel to recognize Hamas as a legitimate political organization; Israel, the United States and European nations regard it as a terrorist group.
The Byzantine emperor Constans II Pogonatus urged Eugenius to recognize Patriarch Peter of Constantinople, but Eugenius refused because Peter was a Monothelite i.e., advocator of a condemned doctrine proposing that Christ had only one will.
In 2001, the Joint Commission, which accredits health-care organizations around the country, urged doctors to recognize that subjective reports of pain should be the standard upon which interventions are based.
