The person must then have verbally acknowledged that he or she was warned and that the warning would be disregarded, and then have gone ahead and committed the sin.

An icon flickered, indicating that Adele had obeyed; she hadn't remembered to verbally acknowledge the command.

"Joe Quigley, did you or did you not verbally acknowledge recruitment into an army, just yesterday?"

Actually Susan had not verbally acknowledged that she was having an affair with our next-door neighbour, and that sort of complicated the situation.

Dax did not acknowledge verbally, but set to following her orders.

Without verbally acknowledging it, they agree that Albert can stay longer and perform domestic duties while Stella continues working.

Tenmei entered the course change but did not verbally acknowledge the order as she would do for a superior Starfleet officer.

Before he could verbally acknowledge the call, the hawk-nosed officer went on swiftly: 'I've been thinking of what you said back there!'

At first the warriors would verbally acknowledge his aide, but as the height of battle slowly grew, the acknowledgments were limited to grunts and then finally silence.

A man like him verbally acknowledge a peasant like Mad Larkin?