Acknowledge Sentence Examples

Jessi didn't acknowledge him at all.

She bit her lip but didn't acknowledge what I said.

Memon did not acknowledge his son or his words.

She barely turned to acknowledge him.

He failed to acknowledge my departure as I returned to our room.

I want to acknowledge the very generous contributions which have been made over the years by the public.

Sometimes, you need to acknowledge the path at your feet and just go with it.

The Director decided to acknowledge the existence of two kinds of quality that a museum can have.

She listened, not wanting to cry or acknowledge the level of pain she put him through for so long.

We will acknowledge receipt of your claim by email.

This monster had managed to find Merrill Cooms, forcing us to acknowledge his abilities.

You turned out okay or something to acknowledge the issue without personalizing it.

To acknowledge the fact is to abandon all hope.

Were you afraid I was too much of a prude to acknowledge him?

On his return to Rome, Eugenius had to treat with his rebel subjects and to acknowledge the senate they had elected, but he was unable to procure the expulsion of the agitator.

An instinct wriggled, one she didn't want to acknowledge or deal with.

Xander didn't acknowledge Jule's statement.

In a fit of jealousy the emperor commanded that this masterpiece should be thrown down, and sent commissioners to Amber charged with the execution of this order; whereupon Mirza, in order to save the structure, had the columns plastered over with stucco, so that the messengers from Agra should have to acknowledge to the emperor that the magnificence, which had been so much talked of, was after all pure invention.

Latest of all to acknowledge the impulse of the new departure have been the potters of Kaga.

The congress appointed him to conduct an expedition against Santa Fe de Bogota, where Don Cundinamarca had refused to acknowledge the new coalition of the provinces.

Athens, whose general Chares had supported Artabazus, was by the threatening messages of the king forced to conclude peace, and to acknowledge the independence of its rebellious allies (355 B.C.).

Before Him they all bow in worship and acknowledge that by Him were created all things and of His own free will were all created.

The sultan was forced to acknowledge their validity, and to grant a German company a lease of his mainland territories south of the mouth of the Umba river, a British company formed by Mackinnon taking a lease of the territories north of that point.

The treaties gave great offence to the Boers, who refused to acknowledge the sovereignty of the native chiefs.

Manjuyama, thanks to the courage of the army commander and of a single brigadier, was at last carried after nightfall, and the dislodged Russians made two counter-attacks in the dark before they would acknowledge themselves beaten.

The problems particularly of the primitive history were first brought into clear light by him, and all subsequent work upon the subject must acknowledge its indebtedness to him.

For the latter they have nothing but condemnation, but the former they acknowledge as part of the divine order of the state, while the y complain that the priests have prostituted their office for lucre.

He sought to remedy the evil by liaisons with two of the most beautiful of his countrywomen, Barbara Gizanka and Anna Zajanczkowska, the diet undertaking to legitimatize and acknowledge as his successor any heir male who might be born to him; but their complacency was in vain, for the king died childless.

On the 10th of July 1460 Henry was taken prisoner at Northampton, and forced to acknowledge York as heir, to the exclusion of his own son.

He also had to submit to the consequences of his origin on the occasion of a double election not foreseen by the Concordat of Worms, when he was forced to admit the necessity of appeal to Rome and to acknowledge the supremacy of the papal decision.

His greatest success, however, was gained in the Eternal City itself; for he contrived, after many vicissitudes, to induce the Romans to annul their republican constitution and acknowledge the papal supremacy, even in municipal matters.

General Arthur refused to resign on the ground that to retire "under fire" would be to acknowledge wrong-doing, and claimed that as the abuses were inherent in a widespread system he should not be made to bear the responsibility alone.

The treaty of Irvine, by which these Scottish nobles agreed to acknowledge Edward as their sovereign lord, is printed in Rymer's Foedera.

The Bohemians refused to acknowledge him as their king and elected in his stead Frederick V., the elector palatine of the Rhine, a son-inlaw of the English king James I., and the Hungarians and the Austrians were hardly less disaffected.

Accordingly in 1606 The the archdukes made a compact agreeing to acknowledge family the archduke Matthias as head of the family.

Some of the tribes, disappointed at not being taken over by Great Britain, refused to acknowledge German sovereignty.

He brought Medina, which had previously been governed by independent sherifs, to acknowledge his authority.

Sheik himself invaded Asia Minor and forced the Turkoman states to acknowledge his suzerainty.

Roger, freed from the utmost danger, recovered ground, sacked Capua and forced Sergius to acknowledge him as overlord of Naples.

But as the Buddha did not acknowledge a soul, the link of connexion between one life and the next had to be found somewhere else.

It is particularly interesting to find in the Amarna letters that the supremacy of Egypt meant also that of the national god, and the loyal Palestinian kings acknowledge that their land belonged to Egypt's king and god.

He seized the capital, Pataliputra, the modern Patna, established himself firmly in the Gangetic valley, and compelled the north-western principalities, Greeks and natives alike, to acknowledge his suzerainty.

In 1884 Great Britain, which up to that time had steadily refused to acknowledge that Portugal possessed territorial rights north of Ambriz, concluded a treaty recognizing Portuguese sovereignty over both banks of the lower Congo; but the treaty, meeting with opposition in England and Germany, was not ratified.

It is a view difficult to prove, and probably few will acknowledge that Clarke has conclusively proved it.

Abi Arta made his expedition against Medina and Mecca, whose inhabitants were compelled to acknowledge the caliphate of Moawiya.

After this new pacification, Merwan caused the Syrians to acknowledge his two sons as heirs to the Caliphate, and married them to two daughters of Hisham.

Ibn Omar did not acknowledge Merwan as caliph.

Sayyar did not at once acknowledge the Caliphate of Yazid III., but induced the Arab chiefs to accept himself as amir of Khorasan, until a caliph should be universally acknowledged.

Ali pretended to grant an amnesty to all Omayyads who should come in to him at Abu Fotros (Antipatris) and acknowledge the new caliph,and even promised them the restitution of all their property.

The outcome of the Committee's work was the great Protest, signed by 1500 bishops, priests and leading laymen, in which the loyalty of Catholics to the crown and constitution was strenuously affirmed and the ultramontane point of view repudiated in the startling declaration, " We acknowledge no infallibility in the pope."

Although the Arsacids are strangers to any deep religious interest (in contrast to the Achaemenids and Sassanids), they acknowledge the Persian gods and the leading tenets of Zoroastrianism.

In common with other northern princes, Mangasha, reputed son and heir of King John, with the yelloweyed Ras Alula, 3 refused to acknowledge the sovereignty of Menelek; but, on the latter marching against them in the following January with a large army, they submitted.

It was conquered by the Vascones in the 6th century, and in 819 became a viscounty dependent on the dukes of Aquitaine - a feudal link which was broken in the 11th century, when the viscounts ceased to acknowledge any suzerain.

God may also be angry with people who refuse to acknowledge all He has given them.

One aspect of aging with grace is to acknowledge that everyone needs help sometimes.

A thank you for your donation letter is a letter that you send to acknowledge the receipt of a donation.

For being warm, I acknowledge someone by saying "hi," and making eye contact.

Nay. You chose lime green to be noticed, and there is much to acknowledge regarding your color choices.

Intimacy was a perfect way to acknowledge the earth's promise that spring would come again.

Alexius was compelled to acknowledge him as colleague in the empire, but was soon put to death.

Many of the Boers who would not acknowledge British rule trekked once more over the mountains into what are now the Orange Free State and Transvaal provinces.

It owed its ascendancy in to restore nearly a hundred churches to the sects and to acknowledge the sway of Rakoczy over the north Hungarian counties.

On the 7th the Hungarian diet formally refused to acknowledge the title of the new king, " as without the knowledge and consent of the diet no one could sit on the Hungarian throne," and called the nation to arms. Constitutionally, in the Magyar opinion, Ferdinand was still king of Hungary, and this gave to the revolt an excuse of legality.

The loss of Pegu was long a matter of bitter regret, and he absolutely refused to acknowledge it by a formal treaty.

Furthermore, the visionary who is found at most periods of great spiritual excitement was forced by the prejudice of his time, which refused to acknowledge any inspiration in the present, to ascribe his visionary experiences and reinterpretations of the mysterious traditions of his people to some heroic figure of the past.

According to other authorities, the Romans were obliged to surrender the city, to acknowledge Porsena's supremacy by sending him a sceptre, a royal robe, and an ivory chair, to abandon their territory north of the Tiber, to give up their arms, and in future to use iron for agricultural purposes only.

During the reign of Alexander Byzantium was compelled to acknowledge the Macedonian supremacy; after the decay of the Macedonian power it regained its independence, but suffered from the repeated incursions of the Scythians.

While we recognize in the De Rerum Natura some of the most powerful poetry in any language and feel that few poets have penetrated with such passionate sincerity and courage into the secret of nature and some of the deeper truths of human life, we must acknowledge that, as compared with the great didactic poem of Virgil, it is crude and unformed in artistic design, and often rough and unequal in artistic execution.

We acknowledge one baptism for remission of sins.

All the lands torn from John Frederick were not, however, assigned to Maurice; he was forced to acknowledge the superiority of Bohemia over the Vogtland and the Silesian duchy of Sagan.

I acknowledge one baptism for the remission of sins "; the Athanasian Creed, " Who (Christ) suffered for our salvation."

While refusing to acknowledge the Roman Church as the true church, he allowed it to be a true church and a branch of the Catholic body, at the same time emphasizing the perils of knowingly associating with error; and with regard to the English Church he denied that the acceptance of all its articles was necessary.

Hindustan he had to march north into Khwarizm (Khiva) against his brother-in-law Mamun, who had refused to acknowledge Mahmud's supremacy.

Sentence of excommunication was passed on Friedrich in April 1871, but he refused to acknowledge it and was upheld by the Bavarian government.

Thus there originated a separate dynasty of Irak with its capital at Hamadan (Ecbatana); but Sinjar during his long reign often interfered in the affairs of the new dynasty, and every occupant of the throne had to acknowledge his supremacy.

Refusing to acknowledge the supremacy of the German king Conrad I., he was unsuccessfully attacked by the latter, and in 920 was recognized as duke by Conrad's successor, Henry I., the Fowler, who admitted his supremacy and the right to appoint the bishops, to coin money and to issue laws.

Secession is a right claimed or exercised by weaker states of a union whose rights are threatened by the stronger states, which seldom acknowledge such a principle.

The privy council ordered him to be banished from the kingdom for refusing to acknowledge the sentence of the High Commission.

Rather than acknowledge him, the duke of Lotharingia-, or Lorraine, transferred his allegiance to Charles the Simple of France; and it was in vain that Conrad protested and despatched armies into Lorraine.

In that year both provinces were subdued, their emirs deposed, and letters of appointment given to new emirs, who undertook to rule in accordance with the requirements of humanity, to abolish slave-raiding and slave dealing, and to acknowledge the sovereignty of Great Britain.

On the death of George William the last duke in 1675, however, Austria refused to acknowledge the validity of the treaty and annexed the duchies.

Actual modes of expression are shown to embody distinctions which average intelligence can easily recognize and will readily acknowledge, though they may tend by progressive rectification fundamentally to modify the assumption natural to the level of thought from which he begins.

Mahommedans who do not acknowledge the spiritual authority of the Ottoman sultan, such as the Persians and Moors, look to their own rulers for the proclamation of a jihad; there has been in fact no universal warfare by Moslems on unbelievers since the early days of Mahommedanism.

When the clergy, refusing to acknowledge the authority of the Burgesses in reducing their stipends, and, appealing to the king against the Assembly, entered the courts to recover damages from the vestries, Patrick Henry at Hanover court in 1763 easily convinced the jury and the people that the old church was wellnigh worthless.

In the following year was passed an Act of Supremacy, whereby all public officials, clerical and lay, were required to acknowledge the supremacy of the queen " as well in spiritual things or causes as temporal."

The aims of Owen were described by himself in a letter addressed to Charles VI., king of France, who had hastened to acknowledge the upstart as Prince of Wales and had sent 12,000 troops on his behalf to Milford Haven.

It was this threat which forced John to sue for a reconciliation; and the first condition exacted was that he should acknowledge Langton as archbishop. During these years Langton had been residing at Pontigny, formerly the refuge of Becket.

The great god Ahuramazda, whom king and people alike acknowledge, has given them dominion over this earth afar, over many peoples and tongues; and the consciousness is strong in them that they are masters of the world.

Nominally all the provinces and districts of Baluchistan, with the exception of the ceded territory which we call British Baluchistan, are under the khan of Kalat, and all chiefs acknowledge him as their suzerain.

A dethroned sultan of Morocco, named Mulai Ahmad (Mahommed XI.), offered to acknowledge Portuguese suzerainty if he were restored to the throne by Portuguese arms, and Sebastian eagerly accepted these terms. The flower of his army was in Asia and his treasury was empty; but he contrived to extort funds from the " New Christians," and collected a force of some 18,000 men, chiefly untrained lads, wornout veterans, and foreign free-lances.

In 989 she visited Rome, where she exercised as imperatrix the imperial prerogatives, and probably compelled the Romans to swear to acknowledge her son.

Here Trendelenburg finds the dividing line between philosophical systems. On the one side stand those which acknowledge none but efficient causes - which make force prior to thought, and explain the universe, as it were, a tergo.

The duc de Choiseul, who refused to acknowledge her, was disgraced in 1771; and the duc d'Aiguillon, who had the reputation of being her lover, took his place, and in concert with her governed the monarch.

The theological calmness of the West, amid the violent theological disputes which troubled the Eastern patriarchates, and the statesmanlike wisdom of Rome's greater bishops, combined to give a unique position to the pope, which councils in vain strove to shake, and which in time of difficulty the Eastern patriarchs were fain to acknowledge and make use of, however they might protest against it and the conclusions deduced from it.

Palaeologus wished the pope to acknowledge his title to be emperor of the East, and in return promised submission to the papal supremacy and the union of the two churches on the pope's own terms. This enforced union lasted only during the lifetime of the emperor.

But in spite of all this we are forced to acknowledge that, as a master of what we may perhaps call "narrative history," he has no superior in antiquity; for, inferior as he is to Thucydides, to Polybius, and even to Tacitus in philosophic power and breadth of view, he is at least their equal in the skill with which he tells his story.

As proconsul in Macedonia he made war with great cruelty against the Dardani and Bessi, and compelled them to acknowledge the supremacy of Rome.

In the 11th it was called Rebellum, because it refused to acknowledge the sovereignty of Amalfi, and in the 13th, when at the height of its prosperity, it had 36,000 inhabitants.

The natives have adopted many customs of white civilization, and on the Aleutians, and in coastal Alaska, and in scattered regions in the interior acknowledge Christianity under the forms of the Orthodox Greek or other churches.

There came a time, however, when Clement and more particularly his following had to acknowledge the vanity of these illusive dreams; and before his death, which took place on the 16th of September 1394, he realized the impossibility of overcoming by brute force an opposition which was founded on the convictions of the greater part of Catholic Europe, and discerned among his adherents the germs of disaffection.

In one small chamber there was cleared a frieze, of cupids intermingled with foliage; but in this, after the first moments of illusion, it was only possible to acknowledge the hand of some unknown late and lax decorator of the school, influenced as much by Raphael as by Leonardo.

In the west Manus made unceasing efforts to assert the supremacy of the O'Donnells in north Connaught, where he compelled O'Conor Sligo to acknowledge his overlordship in 1539.

Indeed, it may be remarked that he, like many other penitents who, in general terms, acknowledge themselves to have been the worst of mankind, fired up, and stood vigorously on his defence, whenever any particular charge was brought against him by others.

He appears to have been quite free from envy properly so called, and to have been always ready to acknowledge the excellences of his contemporaries.

When we further remember the relation which the five students mentioned above had long borne to him, and that they had passed through a similar culture, it is not difficult to understand that his persuasions were successful, and that his old disciples were the first to acknowledge him in his new character.

Secondly, where the nature of the offence admits of it, the sinner is to acknowledge his wrongdoing to the neighbour he has aggrieved.

Every governor who followed him was forced by the logic of events and truth tacitly to acknowledge that right lay with the free-state party.

But now,, when Edward met the Scottish magnates, who had asked for his services as arbitrator, he demanded that they should acknowledge that he was acting as suzerain and overlord Of the whole kingdom of Scotland.

As a matter of fact Lancaster was a more honest man than his enemies suspected; he hastened to acknowledge his little nephews rights, acknowledged him as prince of Wales, and introduced him as his grandfathers heir before the parliament of January 1377.

They would have been wise to accept the agreement; but with obstinate and misplaced courage they refused to acknowledge Charles as king of France, or to give up to him the capital.

But it was only by slow degrees that he was brought to acknowledge the necessity of choosing his ministers from amongst the men who had done these things.

For the North had proclaimed a blockade of the Southern ports; and it wo-old have been both inconvenient and unfair if Lord Russell had decided to recognize the blockade and had refused to acknowledge the belligerent rights of the Southern States.

The justice or injustice of the British cause seemed to him a much more important matter than the vindication of military honor; and he could not bring himself to acknowledge that Majuba had altered the situation, and that the terms which he had made up his mind to concede before the battle could not be safely granted till military reputation was restored.

He elected Liberal ministers, and he was at first in favour of the programme of German unity put forward at Frankfort, but he refused to acknowledge the democratic constitution of the German parliament.

There were few indeed at that time that did not acknowledge it.

Those who practically acknowledge the supremacy of Jesus as Messiah accept all that is essential to the Christianity of Locke.

The schism between the two parties was, however, far from being healed; the bishop of Rome and the bishops of Egypt refused to acknowledge Flavian, and Paulinus, who by the extreme Eustathians had been elected bishop in opposition to Meletius, still exercised authority over a portion of the church.

French citizens were forbidden to acknowledge any ecclesiastical jurisdiction outside the kingdom.

In June the citizens of Bordeaux declared that they would not acknowledge the authority of the Convention until the imprisoned deputies were set free.

Notwithstanding the victory of Cape St Vincent, England was brought into such extreme peril by the mutinies in the fleet that she offered to acknowledge the French conquest of the Netherlands and to restore the French colonies.

Such were Ingimund the Old, Geirmund Hellskin, Thord Beardie (who had wed St Edmund's granddaughter,) Audun Shackle, Bryniulf the Old, Uni, to whom Harold promised the earldom of the new land if he could make the settlers acknowledge him as king (a hopeless project), and others by whom the north-west, north and east were almost completely " claimed."

The Bulgarian danger, and probably the energetic and successful operations of the Greek emperor Basil the Macedonian (867-886), determined the Servian Zhupans to acknowledge again the suzerainty of the Greek emperors.

In 931 Chaslav, one of the princes of the Visheslav dynasty, liberated the largest part of the Servian territory from Bulgarian domination, but to maintain that liberty he had to acknowledge the Byzantine emperors as his suzerains.

In 1807 the sultan offered to grant the Serbs self-government, and to acknowledge Karageorge as the chief of the nation with the title of prince.

In dedicating to him his Commentary on the First Epistle to the Thessalonians, as "eximiae pietatis et doctrinae viro," he declares that so had he been aided by his instruction that whatever subsequent progress he had made he only regarded as received from him, and "this," he adds, "I wish to testify to posterity that if any utility accrue to any from my writings they may acknowledge it as having in part flowed from thee."

This translation virtually deprived Arundel of all authority, as St Andrews did not acknowledge Boniface.

Tordelbach was succeeded by his son Ruadri (Roderick, q.v.), who after some resistance had to acknowledge Muirchertach O'Lochlainn's supremacy.

He demanded of the king, as the conditions of his retaining office, that he should give up all the possessions of the see, accept his spiritual counsel, and acknowledge Urban as pope in opposition to the anti-pope, Clement.

Early in the 6th century the Spartan kings Leon and Agasicles made a vigorous attack on Tegea, the most powerful of the Arcadian cities, but it was not until the reign of Anaxandridas and Ariston, about the middle of the century, that the.attack was successful and Tegea was forced to acknowledge Spartan overlordship, though retaining its independence.

Following the advice of his ministers Walla and Agobard, supporters of the policy of unity, Louis the Pious put Bernard of Italy, Charlemagnes grandson, to death for refusing to acknowledge Lothair as coemperor; crushed a revolt in.

He was compelled to acknowledge himself beaten in France before his death on the I3th of September 1598.

Afterwards, and especially in these parts of the Catalan domain outside of Catalonia which did not acknowledge that they derived their language from that province, Lesnosi received a more extensive signification, so as to mean the literary language in general, whether of verse or of prose.

Towards the end of the 18th century the Hameg wrested power from the Funj and the kingdom fell into decay, many of the tributary princes refusing to acknowledge the king of Sennar.

Extreme modesty, almost amounting to diffidence, was combined with the utmost kindliness in Lord Kelvin's bearing to the most elementary student, and nothing seemed to give him so much pleasure as an opportunity to acknowledge the efforts of the humblest scientific worker.

Upper and lower Lusatia, Landsberg, and the Saxon Palatinate had been inherited by female members of the family, and passed into the hands of other princes, the old mark was retained by Agnes, the widow of Valdemar, who was married again to Otto II., duke of Brunswick, and the king was forced to acknowledge these claims, and to cede districts to Mecklenburg and Bohemia.

After her grandfather's death in 1850 she was trained to teach, but her refusal to acknowledge Napoleon III.

His thumb jerked back to acknowledge Nick for the first time.

Even Scruffy seemed to acknowledge its arrival, allowing Cynthia to remain on the porch when he ate the table scraps.

The mistake had been made and she had no choice but to acknowledge it and get on with her life.

But neither of them were going to be able to move on, if they didn't both at least acknowledge that she was stuck in Hell – for good.

Kris looked at each of the brothers then back at him, as if forced to acknowledge what—or who—had compelled them back.

He seemed uncomfortable without the usual casket before him but was quite skillful in referring to Jeffrey Byrne's present status in sufficiently ambiguous terms as to not quite acknowledge Byrne was dead.

Without waiting for him to acknowledge her, she leaned over him and plopped it down, unconcerned with spilling it, before returning to the kitchen for the pot.

This award scheme has been set up to acknowledge these achievements.

We may be able to tackle and explicitly acknowledge this subjectivity, by collective development.

We also acknowledge that from time to time this will throw up issues which might be considered anomalous.

The Vice-Chancellor will acknowledge receipt of the appeal within five working days and will inform the appellant which Deputy Vice-Chancellor will handle the appeal.

How shall we acknowledge applause, that is, take a bow?

This might explain why Disraeli never did acknowledge authorship of the book.

It is important to acknowledge the centrality of the central premise of this book.

In documenting the euphoria of the Ecstasy experience, he does not fail to acknowledge the inevitable comedown.

Is there a spiritual dimension to human life which we need to acknowledge?

My people doe already know my minde, And will acknowledge you and Iessica In place of Lord Bassanio and my selfe.

The nations will be blessed when they acknowledge the Lord Jesus Jesus Christ is given absolute dominion and there is no wiggle room.

We fully acknowledge that the traditional treatment of osteofibrous dysplasia has been a conservative approach.

I acknowledge the existence of two kinds of quality that a museum has.

Mention of Sir Walter leads me to acknowledge the indebtedness of the Church to Scott.

They are unwilling to fully acknowledge their sin, to really feel sinful.

Please acknowledge receipt of this letter using the enclosed reply slip.

It is time to acknowledge the war on drugs is just not winnable.

Alexander was at last crushed by the Thebans, compelled to acknowledge the freedom of the Thessalian cities and to limit his rule to Pherae, and forced to join the Boeotian league.

Many voters absent in the Confederate army when the vote was taken refused to acknowledge the transfer on their return.

So conspicuous were Belisarius's heroism and military skill that the Ostrogoths offered to acknowledge him emperor of the West.

The federal government refused to acknowledge the new governor, and troops were despatched by Sarmiento against Entre Rios.

In the 13th century the island stood as a rule under the control of Italian adventurers, who were, however, at times compelled to acknowledge the overlordship of the emperors of Nicaea, and failed to protect it against the depredations of Turkish corsairs.

He was raised to the throne by those Parthian grandees who would not acknowledge Vonones I., whom Augustus had sent from Rome (where he lived as hostage) as successor of his father Phraates IV.

The statement of Vane and Ludlow, when they refused to acknowledge Cromwell's government, that it was "in substance a re-establishment of that which we all engaged against," was true.

And it was not until the parliament refused to acknowledge the Instrument as the required starting point for the new legality, that Cromwell in the last resort took arbitrary power into his hands as the only method remaining for carrying on the government.

The bishop over whom the synod of neighbouring bishops had exercised jurisdiction had no formal right of appeal; but sometimes bishops in other parts of the Church would refuse to acknowledge the local synodical sentence and would communicate with a bishop whom they deemed unjustly deposed.

But neither in England nor in Sicily did official formalism acknowledge even French, much less Italian, as a fit tongue for solemn documents.

Their reluctance to acknowledge a female sovereign was increased when Henry gave her in marriage to Geoffrey Plantagenet, the heir of Anjou and Maine (1129); nor was it removed by the birth of the future Henry II.

In 1201 he assumed the offensive, conquered Holstein, together with Hamburg, and compelled Count Henry of Schwerin to acknowledge the over-lordship of the Danish crown.

Maximian and Diocletian were compelled to acknowledge the rule of Carausius in Britain; numerous coins are extant with the heads of Carausius, Diocletian and Maximian, bearing the legend "Carausius et fratres sui."

Charles Greville in his Memoirs says, "In the present cabinet are five or six first-rate men of equal, or nearly equal, pretensions, none of them likely to acknowledge the superiority or defer to the opinions of any other, and every one of these five or six considering himself abler and more important than their premier"; and Sir James Graham wrote, "It is a powerful team, but it will require good driving."

Subsequently he invaded and ravaged Elis, forcing the Eleans to acknowledge the freedom of their perioeci and to allow Spartans to take part in the Olympic games and sacrifices.

Xerxes of Armenia was brought to acknowledge his supremacy in 212.

He invited the Venetians to give him an escort to Constantinople, which they did, and also to acknowledge themselves subjects of the empire.

Although the mother of the Gracchi refused to acknowledge him, the people stoned Metellus because he would not admit his claim to citizenship. Equitius was afterwards elected tribune.

Raghoji died in 1755, and in 1769 his son and successor, Janoji, was forced to acknowledge the peshwa's effective supremacy.

The council, with Thomas Cromwell at their head, visited him on the 7th of May 1 535, and his refusal to acknowledge Henry as supreme head of the church was the ground of his trial.

Inheriting the trade of ruined Tyre and becoming the centre of the new commerce between Europe and the Arabian and Indian East, the city grew in less than a century to be larger than Carthage; and for some centuries more it had to acknowledge no superior but Rome.

Confronted by civil war, and deprived of Hlum by the Hungarians, she was compelled to acknowledge the suzerainty of Stephen Dushan, and afterwards of Louis.

The recalcitrant clergy refused to obey an act passed solely by the secular authority (convocation not having been consulted) or to acknowledge the jurisdiction of a court which had been robbed of its "spiritual" character.

They follow the Orthodox Eastern liturgy, ceremonial and calendar, but acknowledge the papal and doctrinal authority of Rome.

Having no legitimate son he induced the Norman barons to acknowledge William as his successor.

But he forced the most powerful of them to acknowledge the jurisdiction of the ancient local courts; and the old fyrd-system was maintained in order that the crown might not be wholly dependent on feudal levies.

Independents acknowledge the two orders of presbyters and deacons, and differ from the Calvinistic presbyterians chiefly in this, that with them the church is complete in each single congregation, which is subject to no control of presbytery or synod.

He soon came to be recognized as one of the foremost debaters on those economical and commercial questions which at that time so much occupied the attention of parliament; and the most prejudiced and bitter of his opponents were fain to acknowledge that they had to deal with a man whom the most practised and powerful orators of their party found it hard to cope with, and to whose eloquence, indeed, the great statesman in whom they put their trust was obliged ultimately to surrender.

Should the Church take the decisive step into the world, conform to its customs, and acknowledge as far as possible its authorities ?

But Sabuktagin, throughout his reign at Ghazni, continued to acknowledge the Samanid suzerainty, as did Mahmud also, until the time, soon after succeeding to his father's dominions, when he received from Qadir, caliph of Bagdad (see Caliphate, C. § 25), a khilat (robe of honour), with a letter recognizing his sovereignty, and conferring on him the titles Yamin-addaula (" Right hand of the State"), and Amin-ulMillat (" Guardian of the Faith").

A letter received by her in that cold, dark and unhealthy castle, of which fifteen years before she had made painful and malodorous experience, assured her that her son would acknowledge her only as queen-mother, and provoked at once the threat of a parent's curse and an application to Elizabeth for sympathy.

This pose served to keep the democrats of the capital in a good temper, and so leave him free to consolidate the somewhat unstable foundation of his throne and to persuade his European fellow-sovereigns to acknowledge in him not a revolutionary but a conservative force.

It was, however, far easier to acknowledge that the Capitulations rgime was defective and had outlived its time than to devise a remedy and get all the nations interested to accept it.

Strange as it was to her to acknowledge this feeling in herself, yet there it was.

It is important that groups on the Left acknowledge our common desire to rid society of capitalism.

Leader We acknowledge before your throne of mercy, O Lord, the sin of indifference and ambivalence.

Gondris reads the variorum page, she here appears to acknowledge, impressionistically.

Both grain and fruit harvests have been gathered as we give thanks for our harvest and acknowledge the waning power of the Sun.

Blinded by hubris, the terrorist refused to acknowledge that his downfall was approching.

Accountholders must acknowledge that they understand there will be a fee associated with overdraft protection.

While you don't have to shout from the rooftops that you are distraught, you may want to take some time to acknowledge that you are having difficulty with it.

If both parties truly wish to find out how to stop a divorce, sooner or later one has to take the first step and acknowledge the other person's feelings.

Although more studies need to be performed, scientists acknowledge the high number of antioxidants in the acai fruit and its theorized ability to help people lose weight fast.

Acknowledge to yourself that you actually do have a problem (if you do have a problem of course).

The first step in treating the physical symptoms of anxiety and stress is to acknowledge that anxiety attacks can be a problem.

The key to flexibility is to acknowledge that a schedule change has occurred and adjust accordingly.

For instance, the Sinceramente Hallmark line offers Spanish-language and bilingual cards to acknowledge and celebrate a recipient's Hispanic heritage.

There are so few times in life that people acknowledge big achievements, but high school is one them, so make the memory a great one.

Cards. Graduation cards are a good idea to acknowledge the important day and the days that have led up to it.

Not wanting to talk about eating or wanting to acknowledge the fact there might be a problem.

Teen suicide is preventable if a loved one takes the time to acknowledge the suffering adolescent.

Vows can also be written to acknowledge special circumstances in your relationship, such as differing spiritual beliefs or the creation of a blended family due to a second marriage.

Again, this helps the recipient feel a part of your big day, and it is a way for you to acknowledge that while your wedding was strictly a private affair, you are excited to share your excitement with your loved ones as soon as possible.

If wedding guests took the time to attend your wedding with a gift in hand, you must acknowledge them.

Programs such as those using a 12-step model can encourage meth addicts to discuss the problem and acknowledge any denial about the addiction.

Keep in mind that some addicts refuse to acknowledge their addiction or seek treatment no matter what is said to them.

Later she did acknowledge that some of the items from the purse were hers.

He refused to acknowledge his problem until a music producer overdosed on heroin and died in Boy George's home; he then kicked the habit.

They do not generally provide a certificate or diploma, but may offer some sort of award for you to place on your wall to acknowledge the learning you've done.

Many cruise lines also offer vow renewal packages and are happy to acknowledge a couple's special anniversaries.

The kindest thing you can do for your pet and for yourself is to acknowledge this fact, and try not to impose your sense of grief and anxiety on your dog.

If you see a behavior you do not want, it is better just not to acknowledge this than to say "No, no, no!"

What is so wonderful about this holiday is that it's a time to look around and notice all that we have, to acknowledge it and be humble and thankful.

No matter what gift idea you choose, be sure to acknowledge the retiree for the years of service and say thank you if you were his boss or a coworker.

The idea is that the toy version of Buzz Lightyear was based on a "real" astronaut hero, but he refused to acknowledge his toy status.

This means that when you tap on the screen, the mobile phone vibrates a little to acknowledge your commands.

By the time a child is about two and a half or three, the child is able to acknowledge that a death has occurred but will not really understand the reality of death.

Children of this age may also begin to acknowledge the universality of death, that it happens to everyone.

In addition, parents should acknowledge firstborns as people, not the products of their efforts.

Each case must be considered on an individual basis, and the doctor should acknowledge the personal feelings of the parents, as well as the individual circumstances of each child.

While it took many years, the ballet world did eventually acknowledge Modern dance through the stylings of an impactful choreographer named George Balanchine.

These are things that go far beyond the basic movements involved in hip hop, and people who are familiar with and acknowledge the part they play in hip hop dance classes make the best teachers.

As a result of this lack of education he prefers to lash out, rather than acknowledge your different interests.

I believe that he was most definitely aware of your presence and that he chose not to acknowledge you in a veiled attempt to keep a 'friendly' distance between the two of you.

In the meantime, when you feel nervous in this girl's presence, acknowledge the feeling.

Realize it will feel weird and uncomfortable to meet new people and do new things, however, acknowledge the feeling and continue in spite of the awkwardness.

Just introduce yourself and acknowledge his friends when you see them.

One consideration that couples may want to acknowledge before choosing black jewels for an engagement ring is the symbolic superstition associated with black.

Engagement party gifts are a great way to celebrate a couple's new status or for the couple to acknowledge the love and support of their family and friends.

He can fool himself into believing his true love is more than she might be and refuse to acknowledge the truth even when forced to face it.

The term is looked at negatively by some who acknowledge that action films geared towards men do not receive a similarly offensive term for their description.

There are hundreds of paranormal research societies dedicated to studying phenomena that conventional science either cannot explain or refuses to acknowledge.

Their one-night stand resulted in her pregnancy, a truth Ben refused to acknowledge because he was engaged to Izzy Cornwell by then.

Most all Skybus reviews acknowledge that, at $10 a ticket, Skybus takes budget air travel to a whole new level.

To acknowledge this generosity, the founders changed the brand name to Elgin National Watch Company in 1874.

Suggest that your clients fill out a checklist, based on their understanding of their client and how they want to acknowledge them.

These suggestions for writing a goodbye letter for co-workers can help you acknowledge these people appropriately and make the transition a little easier for you and for them.

Before you set out to start learning to drive your automatic car, you should take a moment to acknowledge that you actually have it quite easy.

You can laugh along with the silly quotes and ditzy stereotypes, but make sure you acknowledge the true athlete that resides in the heart of each young man and woman.

The most important thing you need to do is acknowledge your stress and find help with holiday diet tips.

In particular, they have campaigned for gay acceptance in the entertainment industry and have advocated for more homosexual characters in television and movies and encouraged other gay musicians to publicly acknowledge their sexuality.

Whether you love or hate their sound, you can't help but acknowledge and laud their seminal role in the music industry they helped to partially create.

Although they acknowledge a certain "car crash" effect similar to the idea of drivers craning their necks to see a bad accident, they point towards human compassion as the driving force.

The fact that we acknowledge "this" as now - right now - is simply a quirk of the way our brains work, not having to do with anything about how the universe is laid out.

Acknowledge the corn - say this when you are telling someone to tell you the truth.

Acknowledge both spouses, even if minimal contact is the only relationship with the other.

She didn't acknowledge his order but headed toward the stairs.

His scruples forbade him to acknowledge the jurisdiction of the court by accepting bail, but he was soon released.

The Spanish government did not, however, formally acknowledge the independence of the country until the year 1842.

It even appears from a study of the Greek text that some copies of the books of Samuel incorporated narratives which other copies did not acknowledge.

They, however, refused to acknowledge Gardiner's authority, and from the Cape government he received no support.'

Having at length received an intimation from London that the queen " could not acknowledge the independence of her own subjects, but that the trade of the emigrant farmers would be placed on the same footing as that of any other British settlement, upon their receiving a military force to exclude the interference 1 Commonly called the Republic of Natalia or Natal.

From1610-1618he was a prisoner in the hands of the Polish king, Sigismund III., whom he refused to acknowledge as tsar of Muscovy on being sent on an embassy to the Polish camp in 1610.

Finally he quarrelled with Hume because the latter would not acknowledge all his own friends and Rousseau's supposed enemies of the philosophe circle to be rascals.

It is indeed plain that such a sacrifice - for we have here to do, not with human victims in general, but with the sacrifice of the dearest earthly thing - could only be paid to the supreme deity; and Manasseh and his people never ceased to acknowledge Yahweh as the God of Israel..

The activities of Prof. Masaryk in Russia, England and America, enthusiastically supported by his compatriots living abroad, and especially by the Czechs and Slovaks who had emigrated to the United States, the self-sacrificing valour of the Czechoslovak legions on the French, Italian and Russian fronts, and the work of the Czechoslovak Council with its headquarters at Paris, moved the Allies to acknowledge the last-named body as the de facto Provisional Government of the Czechoslovak State.

It was now taught that prophecy in general was a peculiarity of the Old Testament ("lex et prophetae usque ad Johannem"); that in the new covenant God had spoken only through apostles; that the whole word of God so far as binding on the Church was contained in the apostolic record - the New Testament; 2 and that, consequently, the Church neither required nor could acknowledge new revelations, or even instructions, through prophets.

He refused to acknowledge his victorious riyal, Rudolph of Habsburg, and urged the pope to adopt a similar attitude, while the new king claimed the Austrian duchies.

He skilfully took advantage of the alarm of the German Protestants after the battle of White Hill in 1620, to secure the coadjutorship to the see of Bremen for his son Frederick (September 1621), a step followed in November by a similar arrangement as to Werden; while Hamburg by the compact of Steinburg (July 1621) was induced to acknowledge the Danish overlordship of Holstein.

On the 19th of June a son was born to his wife, and in the face of his previous protestations he was induced to acknowledge himself the father.

This chief, encamped at Teheran when the communication reached him, submitted the matter to his men, who decided against Zaki, but put forward their own captain as the only master they would acknowledge.

He refused to acknowledge any right to separate government whatever on the part of the Afghans, and Kandahar and Ghazni were to be recovered, as belonging to the empire of the Safawid dynasty.

The most competent opinion inclines to acknowledge the hand of Leonardo, not only in the face of the angel, but also in parts of the drapery and of the landscape background.

Thus Locke seems by implication to acknowledge something added by the mind to the original " simple ideas " of extension and succession; though he finds that what is added is not positively conceivable.

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We acknowledge one baptism for the forgiveness of sins.

I welcome the teaching awards so recently televised as an attempt to acknowledge the importance of teaching as a profession.

Several Kindred had already entered the fief but all proved willing to acknowledge him as Prince.

Were Called Acephali Because They Had No Lands By Virtue Of Which They Could Acknowledge A Superior Lord.

Let them build the house, and Yahweh will take pleasure in it and acknowledge the honour paid to Him.

Although, like most men of strong originative power, he assimilated with difficulty the ideas of others, his tardiness sprang rather from inability to depart from the track of his own methods than from reluctance to acknowledge the merits of his competitors.

To disown means to refuse to acknowledge a relationship with someone.

Blinded by hubris, the terrorist refused to acknowledge that his downfall was approaching.

The celebrated athlete won't even deign to acknowledge her old friends.

Remember to acknowledge birthdays and occasions like Mother's Day and Father's Day with cards, small gifts or other celebratory gestures to instill thoughtfulness in the child and demonstrate caring and kindness.

If those around her acknowledge the loss as a "real" one, only then will she be able to grieve and start the healing process.

Feng shui principles acknowledge the correct cycle of the five elements and teaches you how to apply them in your home and life for a balanced life so chi energy can thrive.

Of course, both Michael Phelps and Speedo acknowledge that what makes him a champion is a combination of talent, skill and discipline.

For Wiccans, casting any spell means to acknowledge the rule of three.

Include a card with your full name and address in the envelope so they can acknowledge your donation.

While disabled people can certainly use mainstream websites, these websites acknowledge the additional challenges of dating for the disabled.

Choosing the right gifts for a party can be challenging, however, and couples will most appreciate gifts that acknowledge the new status of their relationship.

While neither the party nor the gifts are required, gifts can be a nice way to acknowledge a couple's new relationship.

Opportunities to acknowledge an employee come in a variety of events.

It was funny, as you can't acknowledge they are The Monkeys.

He didn't acknowledge her as she entered the surprisingly large bathroom.

Her hand dropped, though she didn't acknowledge him otherwise.

It wasn't normal for them to acknowledge her existence, let alone address her.

The other vamps didn't so much as acknowledge her as she stepped from the car.

In the provinces and even in Italy his subjects were ready to acknowledge his divinity - with the sole exception of the Jews.

She was coping, forcing herself to acknowledge that it might be weeks, or possibly never, before her husband's body was recovered.