As a generation, we are not good at acknowledging error, however.

But, the teacher added, the President waited too long to acknowledge his error.

"I think now everybody understands that we have got to acknowledge our error, stand up, take a step back."

Late last month, the company acknowledged accounting errors that could lower its net worth by $1.7 billion.

By the time they acknowledged their error, some had sold millions of shares at prices that were just a memory.

Even today Sharon is seldom, if ever, known to acknowledge error or regret.

Other suggest that the agency is simply being stubborn, refusing to acknowledge error.

He also acknowledged inadvertent "errors" in the city's recent financial statements.

But the magazine, while acknowledging possible errors in the article, stopped short of retracting it.

The statement reiterated the rule on a safety and acknowledged the official's error.