Meanings of acknowledge failure in English

Is it time to acknowledge failure?

Randall argues that a refusal to acknowledge failure cannot be either honourably or -more important -constructively maintained.

No, he must either return to the cave and try again there, or acknowledge failure and go away-whichwould be intolerable.

They will acknowledge failure or imperfection, but there is little realisation of sin, and therefore little sense of the need for a deliverer.

Curly himself, seated in the silent class room, acknowledged failure at last.

Without it we-both of us-wouldhave unquestionably acknowledged failure.

Lafarge, which merged in 2015 with Swiss building supplies company Holcim, has acknowledged failures at the Syrian business.

Twenty-three thousand dollars of the Government appropriation had been expended, and the work thus far accomplished was an acknowledged failure.

US pharma giant Pfizer has acknowledged failure in its efforts to persuade unions at its Ringaskiddy plant to accept pension reforms.

They are self- acknowledged failures; they dare not permit themselves the smallest indulgence, they are weaklings afraid to enter the arena at all.

So the only way for Labour to be convincing is to commit to change, acknowledge failures of the past, and map our future.

The former plantations in Munster were an acknowledged failure, the reason assigned being the huge size of the grants made to the undertakers.

South Carolina took upon herself to act as she might have acted had that confederation remained in force; but that confederation was an acknowledged failure.

She says that they would be glad to hear from you regarding your statement that equal suffrage, in the western states, is an acknowledged failure.