"But a serious gesture must be made to acknowledge their status."
Inexpensive X10 devices only receive commands and do not acknowledge their status to the rest of the network.
Vaughn certainly didn't need his permission, but was gracious enough to ask, acknowledging his status as executive officer.
You acknowledge their status and they'll be quite happy to bask in reflected glory for a while as you say your piece.
Acknowledge your audience's status through using language they can understand, and ideas they can identify with.
Acknowledge their status, and they may let you know when the person you want to talk to is available.
These children claim they lived with their identity in an inner exile until the 1980s, when some of them officially acknowledged their status.
Krickstein acknowledged her long-shot status, but said it nevertheless would be valuable as a learning experience.
Force him to acknowledge his reduced status in a superb rotation.
She acknowledges her amateur status in the ways and means of politics-by-the-Potomac.