I realized that nations could never acknowledge their own wars as tragedies, but that families not only could but had to.

Moreover, other nations not previously acknowledged as nuclear-weapons states have developed and tested nuclear-explosive devices.

No nation upon the face of the earth has ever acknowledged more than one god.

Increasingly, African nations are openly acknowledging the problem, partly because AIDS has made children more likely to fall ill or die from sexual abuse.

A great nation acknowledges its errors.

A nation will acknowledge its gratefulness for those whose job it is to defend the country.

Effectively, the nations have acknowledged that the protocol, which went into force only four months ago, is already out of date.

How can a nation founded on the principle of secession fail to acknowledge the applicability of the principle when employed against it?

Look back at the end of the 1980s, five nations acknowledged having nuclear weapons.

In the Coronation ceremony the nation definitely acknowledges that need.