The candidates acknowledged that outreach should be a major component of the job.

But even within the constraints, which both candidates acknowledge, they have found different approaches.

The four other candidates acknowledged the need for higher taxes in one form or another.

The candidates are acknowledging that influence by pledging to talk straight and with specifics on the issues.

Neither candidate acknowledged that she was one of millions of single voters.

The candidate himself acknowledges a slow start to his organizing efforts.

In fact, some candidates who are behind by just a few hundred votes acknowledge privately that making up the difference will be difficult.

All the candidates acknowledged that their vision of what they would do as mayor had been changed by the attack.

These are legal fundamentals that a candidate for accession must acknowledge.

All candidates acknowledge those linked subjects to be the issues of most concern to city voters this year.