The phrase "acknowledge a principle" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing the recognition or acceptance of a fundamental truth or rule in a particular context.
Example: "In order to create a fair policy, we must first acknowledge a principle of equality for all individuals."
Alternatives: "recognize a principle" or "accept a principle".
Times as complicit as the Bush administration in ignoring this poor country?" Let me acknowledge a theological principle of my own: I believe The Times is a great newspaper, but a profoundly fallible one.
7. Just as Jonsen eventually came to moderate his version of casuistry and to acknowledge a justificatory role for moral principles, so Beauchamp and Childress eventually acknowledged the important role of casuistry in the formulation and application of principles.
IN his speech in Cairo yesterday, President Obama acknowledged an important principle: "Elections alone do not make true democracy".
Yet while insisting on the union's fitness for accomplishing these goals, they acknowledge in principle that a European currency might do substantially worse than the historical performance of the German mark.
Unfortunately, the U.S. interpretation of command responsibility refuses to acknowledge this principle, creating an atmosphere that is so permissive of war crimes that they keep happening again and again.
The absolutist moral tradition acknowledges this by a principle known as double effect: although it is always wrong to kill innocents deliberately, it is sometimes permissible to attack a military target knowing some noncombatants will die as a side effect.
It is one thing to acknowledge in principle that there must be a single BIP; it is quite another to find agreement on what that principle is.
Most of the world, and most Taiwanese, acknowledge the principle that Taiwan and the mainland are part of a single China that should ultimately be reunited.
