6 sentences with 'acknowledge'
Example sentences and phrases with the word acknowledge and other words derived from it.
• « That battle provoked grudging admiration from the Romans, who were forced to acknowledge that they had finally met their match, the Persians. »
• « In "Pascal's Wager", Pascal argued that God either exists or He does not exist, and each person can choose to acknowledge Him or not. If He exists, and one acknowledges Him, then one is saved. If He exists, and one rejects Him, then one is damned. If He does not exist and one recognises Him, nothing happens, and if He does not exist and one does not recognise Him, nothing happens either. Therefore, one might as well worship God in some way, since there are no negative consequences if He does not exist, but there are negative consequences (i.e., an eternity of torment in hell) if He does exist. »
• « The most horrific violence of the Turkish revolution was directed at the Armenian minority, with more than a million Armenians forced into the deserts or killed outright. Although the Turkish state refuses to acknowledge it to this day, historians have long recognised that the Armenian massacres amounted to full-scale genocide. »
• « Remembering the words of Alexander Pope: "A man should not be ashamed to acknowledge that he has been wrong, for that is tantamount to saying that he is wiser today than he was yesterday". »
• « The kids also know that they love Coach Burkhead, though they would rather stay on the bench for eternity than acknowledge it. »
• « It took Gorbachev more than three years in power to acknowledge to the world that the USSR had political prisoners. For the men he released, that was more than three additional years of severe imprisonment for "ideological crimes" that he apparently no longer regarded as such. »