The phrase "acknowledge a power" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the recognition or acceptance of authority, influence, or capability in a particular context.
Example: "In order to move forward, we must acknowledge a power greater than ourselves that shapes our decisions."
Alternatives: "recognize an authority" or "accept a force".
He told the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Chicago: "In my first words as Pres. of all the people, I acknowledged a power higher than the people, who commands not only righteousness but love, not only justice but mercy..
But unless this self acknowledges a "power which constituted it," it falls into a despair which undoes its selfhood.
CHURCH OR FOOTBALL Sunday is a day to acknowledge a higher power, but for many that meant the guys in shoulder pads and hair extensions.
So what you need to do is, if you're an alcoholic, to acknowledge a higher power – it doesn't matter which one – and then you have to cultivate a certain attitude and this will lead you out of your alcoholism, and spirituality is a form of discipline that you practise.
We all acknowledge a certain power of the placebo in treating the "worried well," but do skeptics of homeopathy really believe that a placebo effect is consistently effective to treat all of the serious illnesses that are commonly treated by homeopaths...and for which good double-blind studies show efficacy?
The Federal Bureau of Prisons has acknowledged a partial power outage began on Jan . 27but denied that it had an effect on heating at the facility.
Acknowledging a higher power in an organized setting offers many people satisfaction, relief and strength.
Locke himself acknowledged an innate power of "reflection" (awareness of one's own ideas, sensations, emotions, and so on) as a means of exploiting the materials given by experience as well as a limited realm of a priori (nonexperiential) knowledge, which he nevertheless regarded as "trifling" and essentially empy of content (e.g., "soul is soul" and "every man is an animal").
There are obvious and fatal difficulties in acknowledging such a power if no Commerce Clause power to abrogate state sovereign immunity exists.
Once seen as subordinate to his mentor, Stephen N. Adubato, a Newark Democratic power broker, Mr. DiVincenzo, 58, is now acknowledged as a power unto himself.
