The phrase "a clear acknowledgment that" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when you want to indicate that something has been recognized or accepted in a straightforward manner.
Example: "The report includes a clear acknowledgment that the previous strategies were ineffective."
Alternatives: "a definite recognition that" or "an explicit acceptance that".
Maybe a bit lacking in poetry — but it was a clear acknowledgment that he faces an implacable, irrational opposition, together with a forceful defense of progressive values.
In a clear acknowledgment that the policy had backfired, Veronica M. White, the parks commissioner, announced at a City Council hearing on Jan . 30that the department would create a new lower-priced membership category for young adults, ages 18 to 24.
And while it is re-starting QE, the Bank is also working with the Treasury to launch a battery of other emergency measures, including the "funding for lending" scheme announced by George Osborne in the Mansion House speech – a clear acknowledgment that QE is reaching the limits of its effectiveness.
This is a clear acknowledgment that AOL is no longer a walled garden, something it's users (at least the ones not on dial up) figured out some time in the last millennium.
While that's obviously not an explicit admission of any wrongdoing, or even an apology, the move to re-submit and the statement alone are a clear acknowledgment that so-closely mimicking the design of Reeder was not a good idea.
"This is a clear acknowledgment that the law is unworkable, and it underscores the need to repeal the law and replace it with effective, patient-centered reforms.'.
On some levels, the coming together of Utah's five tribal American Indian nations -- Ute, Navajo, Paiute, Goshute and Shoshone -- and the Salt Lake Organizing Committee is a modern case study in ethnic harmony, clear acknowledgment that a people had settled Utah before the Mormons.
He also speaks of the Serbian nation and of its historical tragedies, of the enormous number of Serbian refugees inside Serbia, of the need to help "Serb brothers" in the Bosnian Serb republic, but with the clear acknowledgment that they live in a different state, in Bosnia.
The election of Turkson by the College of Cardinals, most of whom still come from Europe, would be clear acknowledgment that the leadership of the Church has to reflect this shifting center of gravity.
But Mr. Rumsfeld's desire to begin debating billions of dollars in weapons cuts so far before the 2004 budget was clear acknowledgment that the Pentagon cannot pay for all of the programs now on the books and proposed for financing in the 2003 budget.
If that bubble isn't straight-up popping, it's at least deflating, and the changing sound of the Sahara Tent is a clear acknowledgment of that fact.
