However, there can be difficulty acknowledging the different worlds and understandings that client and therapist may live with.

Lichine had two advantages with the '28 Lascombes: many Bordeaux people still have difficulty acknowledging that there are other wine regions in the world.

"I have little difficulty acknowledging the possibility of modern prophecy by an inherent faith."

So many people had difficulty acknowledging the existence of unalloyed evil; they hoped to wish it away through positive thinking, to counsel it into remorse through psychotherapy, or to domesticate it with compassion.

Standpoint theory gives a voice to those in a position to see patterns of behavior that those immersed in the culture have difficulty acknowledging.

Some even had difficulty acknowledging the pregnancy to themselves, and the prospect of being reassured by other people that everything would be O.K. this time made it more difficult to tell others about the pregnancy.

The higaisha ishiki, or victim consciousness, is said to be one reason why Japan has such difficulty acknowledging its past aggression.

By insisting on the persistence of cultural differences in the workplace, diversity trainers have difficulty acknowledging the proposition that any differences may be superficial compared with an appreciation of what all human beings have in common.

But, he said, 10 percent of the patients had substantial difficulty acknowledging the nature and severity of their disease, a problem that could call their decision-making capacity into question.

The Saudi government has difficulty acknowledging this.