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recognition

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Yet this moment of recognition does not mean safety.

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Two years later, Helen Newlove was appointed to the House of Lords in recognition of her work aimed at tackling youth crime.

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That said, let’s shed a tiny tear for the exclusion of “Bruce Almighty,” if only because Morgan Freeman could use a little papal recognition too.

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This isn't an "endorsement of an unequal system", they stress, but a recognition that "there is no caste disprivilege without a corresponding privilege accruing to some other caste".

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To ensure recognition of the French connection, everything is paved with fleurs-de-lys embroidered in gold.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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