'You're right, of course, but will they have the sense to recognize their position?'

Weston recognized the young man's position, and sympathized with him.

Neither would consciously have recognized or construed their position in this way.

I recognize your high position on this island, but you are not above question.

He's happy that the adoring girl recognizes his position in the legislature.

For the first time Ted recognized his own position as an eavesdropper.

They had already recognized the Army's position as a state within the State and subject only to itself.

The law should recognize the parents' untenable position, and offer support instead of prosecution.

The Government refused to recognize his position for five years, he says, "because of my activist activities."

And he must have been startled as he recognised his own position.