Obama s approach is self avowedly pragmatic.

ATLANTA We are, supposedly, in the midst of an obesity epidemic.

Admittedly, the bar is low when making this comparison.

Admittedly, Turkey has a long way to go.

Shibuya's plans to recognize same sex relationships is a great idea!

Admittedly, there are some good things in these proposals.

This admittedly has not been an explicit process, but the pattern is undeniable.

The benchmark for this study is admittedly far from ideal.

On this, admittedly subjective, measure, Somaliland qualifies as a nation.

Hamas s support for Palestinian statehood within the 1967 borders would convey at least indirect recognition of Israel.

One must doubt whether it contributed anything to making democracy more acceptable after WWII.

It cannot be denied, however, that the path to acknowledging their existence and value can be painful.

But it's not at the expense of people accepting their global responsibilities.

Nowhere is the need to cultivate this recognition clearer than it is in our economic system.

Another blogger, Teocrat, argues that accepting the rights of gays is similar to accepting the rights of zoophiles and pedophiles.

So, the efforts of Setagaya and Shibuya to recognize same sex couples generated tremendous discussion online in Japan.

Defendants are often coerced into accepting their charge as a condition of release or probation.

Gustav relied on silent movie techniques, with minimal use of text, which added to its universal appeal.

She says all but one of her friends are Muslim, which she admits she finds weird.

In time, every government will come to accept the basic inhumanity of threatening to obliterate entire cities with nuclear weapons.

His arrest, and the House of Lords' later approval of it, legitimized the idea of prosecuting the former dictator.

Some economists admittedly a diminishing number deny that there can ever be an output gap. The economy, they argue, is always at full employment.

Second, Putin cannot stand Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, who admittedly is not an easy man to like.

Indeed, when Boris Yeltsin was Russia s president, the country came close to recognizing the need to return the Northern Territories to Japan.

Some economists admittedly a diminishing number deny that there can ever be an output gap.

I think the controversy has brought some needed dialogue and recognition to the material and its values for our country.

She admits that it was her father who greatly influenced this decision, for he was a great opera and classical music admirer.

His model, which he admitted was a simplification and an idealization, aimed to highlight the features of greatest importance in an embryo's development.

This is a sensible goal, and one India s leaders will acknowledge as in their country s interest.

Dick states that, in 1940, at the age of twelve, he read his first science fiction magazine, Stirring Science Stories .

Admittedly, the global commodity price boom has had profound, albeit enormously complex and uncertain, effects on poverty.

(iii) To promote recognition of the skills, merits and abilities of persons with disabilities, and of their contributions to the workplace and the labour market

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The hidden rules of the game came closest to being officially acknowledged during two uninterrupted weeks of simulated interrogations towards the end of the training course.

The bill called for its nullification because it opens the door to the prosecution of any citizen because of his different ideological views.

The Algerian military coup in 1992 crushed the Islamists, many of whom, admittedly, were neither liberal, nor necessarily committed to democracy.

Admittedly, turmoil in Tehran brings inconstancy to Iran s foreign policy, warranting caution about the prospects for a meaningful diplomatic breakthrough.

If they cannot successfully extract information from you in this way, they force confessions by punching, beating, extended physical exercise and flogging.

For them, doing so would be tantamount to admitting that most people in this hospitable, well endowed kingdom had been kept poor by design all along.

It is legitimate and imperative to make resumption of aid to Palestinians contingent on Hamas s recognition of Israel s right to exist and on its commitment to all international agreements previously signed by the PLO and the Palestinian Authority.

Fayyad s strategy for international recognition of a Palestinian state is to fight a legal battle against Israel in the United Nations Security Council and other international bodies.

There is little doubt that accommodation with Palestinians can bring full Arab recognition of Israel and its right to live in peace.

In an earlier step toward recognition by the world community, the PLO had to revamp the Palestinian Covenant, which called for the destruction of Israel.

But remember those people who have been here for a while and don t speak (by their own admission) super well?

The pervasive soul searching prompted by such questions has nurtured a growing recognition that capitalism s success depends not only on macroeconomic policy or economic indicators.