If you fail to acknowledge this, you are risking irreparable damage to your brand.

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Unfortunately, most people have this false impression of scouts and fail to acknowledge their vital role and influence.

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Advertisers argue there are benefits to more efficiently targeting customers, but I believe these benefits fail to acknowledge the downside consumers face.

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The same charge can be levelled against those who fail to acknowledge that there are widely accepted business practices that are unethical, harmful and wrong.

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But what they fail to acknowledge is that it is the two-state trap that makes the construction and execution of an effective public diplomacy strategy impossible.

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But its critics often fail to acknowledge that hip hop is neither sociological commentary nor political criticism, though it may certainly function in these modes through its artists' lyrics.

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Conservatives are often criticized for harping on family values, but what many of the critics fail to acknowledge is that strong, healthy families are essential for a strong, healthy economy.

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However, you fail to acknowledge that, by our reckoning, 96% of diamonds mined in the world today have brought growth and prosperity to a number of countries, many of which are in the developing world including southern Africa.

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Next, they fail to acknowledge cause-and-effect.

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If you can acknowledge reasonable usage in these contexts, I fail to understand how you cannot extend the same to internet culture.

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