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While Allport acknowledged the influence of situations on behaviour, he held that the way a person reacts to given situations depends on her/his traits, although people sharing the same traits might express them in different ways.His boss acknowledged his services and rewarded him with a promotion.Princely states were ruled by local, hereditary rulers, who acknowledged sovereignity in return for local autonomy.Yet by the 1950s it was acknowledged within the country that the style of government in the USSR was not in keeping with the ideals of the Russian Revolution.The first sentence of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice states: 'It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.He too acknowledged the suzerainty of Bahadur Shah Zafar.The ADS Grain Bank programme is acknowledged as a successful and innovative food security intervention.