Sometimes I'd wait for an hour before my existence was formally acknowledged; other times, a few minutes.

United Nations military officials have not formally acknowledged the killings.

The American father must act to formally acknowledge paternity before the child is 18.

The Florence group had formally acknowledged their withdrawal from the movement by the end of 1914.

It did not formally acknowledge mercury as the cause of the poisoning until 1968.

But it also formally acknowledges that the private market is "the most democratic form of regulating economic activity."

To this day the identity of those vigilantes has never been formally acknowledged.

Managua formally acknowledged the desperate state of the economy in early 1988.

Few organizations however formally acknowledge it, or deliberately try to develop the coaching role.

The king is formally acknowledging a religion established and developed on an alien planet.