acknowledgment of error

Of course, a public official’s acknowledgment of error doesn’t necessarily absolve them of accountability.

The protesters excoriated the country’s top officials, including Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei for what many saw as incompetence of the military establishment as well as the delayed acknowledgment of error after three days of denials.

After making a private acknowledgment of error, the reasoning went, Mr. Biden could later say the same thing publicly.

Those missteps deeply handicapped Benedict’s papacy, and in 2012 the Vatican, in a rare acknowledgment of error, hired Mr. Burke from Fox, where he was a Rome correspondent.

In response to Uber’s acknowledgment of error on Tuesday, the advocacy group said in a statement that “Uber hasn’t just wrongly calculated its commission, it has been unlawfully taking the cost of sales tax and an injured-worker surcharge right out of driver pay.”