Whereas the metaphor would have been strictly just, to have left the sun wholly out of the figure, and have ascribed her not acknowledging it to the influence of the moon.
It has been the crime and folly of England to suppose herself invincible, and that, without acknowledging or perceiving that a full third of her strength was drawn from the country she is now at war with.
Their nephew, however, waiting gravely behind his chair, admitted her excuses with a little air of acknowledging them to be necessary that ruffled her at once, though she had promised herself to be pleasant.
She might, without acknowledging a definite uneasiness, find out cautiously whether it had occurred to Miss Hartill that she, Henrietta, might be considered to have been negligent.
Westward the wave of empire rolls on; that's the word we speak as the world looks on, grudginglyacknowledging its truth.
I was glad to see that for once he had laid aside his dignity and superciliousness: it was freely acknowledging that Uncle Sam was somebody--that he could, in his plain straightforward way do clever things.
His lordship's face dispensed a few gorgeous blushes as he hesitated, and with an angular motion of the head, he convicted another cough, and made the very best kind of a bow acknowledging the default.
Acknowledging the joys and comforts of peace, we shook hands,--I wished John well with his fighting, and we parted.
The English have ever been as indocile in acknowledging the rules of criticism, even those which determine the most ordinary questions of grammar, as the Italians and French have been voluntarily obedient.
He begins by acknowledgingthe merit of the Romans in jurisprudence, but denies that the compilation of Justinian is to be confounded with the Roman law.
The Emperor Ferdinand seems to have hesitated about acknowledging the decisions of a council, which had at least failed in the object for which it was professedly summoned--the conciliation of all parties to the church.
Roscoe quotes a few words from Rucellai’s dedication of his poem, L’Api, to Trissino, acknowledging the latter as the inventor of blank verse.
You have won our money; but, however, we are acknowledging to you for the honour of your company.
We have not yet resolved how to dispose of ourselves; but, however, we are highly acknowledging to you for your civility.
I heard Mr. McCarthy sing last night," said the girl, acknowledging the informal presentation.
McCarthy lifted his cap, as if acknowledging the tribute to the crowd, but really in salutation to the girl, who flushed angrily.
But he did not shrink from acknowledgingthat that mercy was only for those who would accept it, nor presume to dictate to God that all sinners should be saved, forced into salvation, without accepting his conditions.
They had drifted apart without openly acknowledging it.
My object has been to point out how Confucius recognised it, without acknowledging the faith from which it must have originated, and how he enforced it as a matter of form or ceremony.
I have sent for you, Lady Hope, because I thought that the most open and honorable way of acknowledging the wrong I have done you, and of asking your forgiveness.
It was a splendid and most delicate way of acknowledging herself in the wrong.
To Miss Stevenson, also, as an amanuensis, the writer takes this opportunity, with parental affection, of acknowledging his obligation for almost the entire manuscript written to his diction.
The writer has also the pleasure of acknowledging the obligations he owes to Mr Williams, author of Views in Greece, for his friendly advice and assistance.
Sherman again objected to the tax, as acknowledging men to be property.
This indeed in itself reflects no extraordinary degree of honour on us, as still acknowledging Rome to be the metropolis of Latium; but that it may possibly appear to do so, has been effected by our long-continued forbearance.
But while acknowledging their value in education, he sees also that they have no connexion with our higher moral and intellectual ideas.
And yet you were acknowledging a little while ago that knowledge is not the same as opinion?
Petition and thanksgiving are properly correlative, the one expressing a wish to the deity and the other acknowledging its fulfilment.
If, as is natural, we begin by thinking of ourselves first, we are easily led on to think of others; for we cannot help acknowledgingthat what is right for us is the right and inheritance of others.
Who killeth them, him will they call a bestower of life; who turneth away from them, him will they regard as turning towards them; who denieth their message, him will they consider as one acknowledging its truth.
He hath turned his face unto Thine, acknowledging Thy oneness, confessing Thy singleness, and he hath called out in Thy name among the nations, and led the people to the streaming waters of Thy mercy, O Thou Most generous Lord!
Acknowledging his debt to Morris for many "unforgettable poems," the younger writer and more accomplished student of language protests against the indiscriminate use of the word whereas in the translations from the sagas.
He made it quite apparent that he had come to see the young mistress of the house, and no one else, acknowledging the introductions to the remainder of the company with a scant courtesy.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "acknowledging" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: admission; appreciative; beholden; cognizant; grateful; obliged
