He was unwilling to acknowledge my perception that my relationship with my stepdaughter was friendly yet superficial, and just not as intimate as I expected it to be given the time we spent together.
And I also -- before I go any further -- I want to acknowledge one of my dear friends who is here with us, the First Lady of Mexico, Mrs.
Everything from a failure to acknowledge a birthday to my own barren wall is there in the open for all to see.
You telephoned me yesterday and asked me to consider voluntarily taking a material reduction in my pension entitlement as a "gesture" to acknowledge the level of Government support being made to Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS).
As it approaches, I am reminded how disappointed and hurt I used to be when my stepdaughter didn't acknowledge me on this day.
But sadly, some of my friends who were willing to acknowledge we need to lead in all those areas and make transformational changes, they're unwilling to take what I admit are difficult steps to make this transformation.
And as I did at Bagram during my visit, I especially want to acknowledge the extraordinary sacrifices that are being made by American troops and civilians in Afghanistan every single day.
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And I will acknowledge that I am feeling probably quite sick to my stomach.
Basically my experience was that independent bookstores rarely if ever wanted to acknowledge that there were also independent publishers.
Before I get started, just some preliminary introductions -- I'll probably repeat them in my formal remarks, but I want to make sure that I acknowledge some people who have been critical to this effort and critical to so many efforts at the state and federal levels.
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For now, it is important only to again acknowledge that joining them was a sincere and well-intentioned gesture on my part, but in retrospect a foolish one.
"Sometimes my clients acknowledge that coping with infidelity was the worst and yet the best thing to happen to their relationship, " Walkup says.
That, my friends, would be what is known as the 800lb gorilla in the room that no one wants to acknowledge.
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