It would mean acknowledging Ryder's existence, which she was not yet prepared to do.

To do so would, of course, mean acknowledging misguided ethnic policies.

It meant acknowledging they had wasted time and time mattered.

Some don't want to talk about things like that because it would mean acknowledging that they may not recover from their illness.

Taking the absurd seriously means acknowledging the contradiction between the desire of human reason and the unreasonable world.

And facing this crisis also means acknowledging what they mean to each other.

Coping with your pain means acknowledging that the problem is not just the pain itself.

The challenge also has a moral dimension, since it means acknowledging that girls are expressing their sexuality younger than ever.

But that would mean acknowledging it before Election Day.

It meant acknowledging the failure of the draft Constitution.