The phrase "acknowledge formally" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when you want to indicate that someone is recognizing or accepting something in an official or serious manner.
Example: "The committee will acknowledge formally the contributions of all volunteers at the annual meeting."
Alternatives: "officially recognize" or "formally accept".
Not until 1997 did Chilean authorities acknowledge formally that much of what they had thought to be merlot was carmenère.
To the frustration of the administration, they declined even to acknowledge formally that the allies faced a "common threat" of a missile attack.
The general convention of the Episcopal Church voted in August to approve the Rev. V. Gene Robinson as the next bishop of New Hampshire and to acknowledge formally that some dioceses are permitting gay union ceremonies.
Finland has become the first nation on earth to acknowledge formally the childcentric model of economic development: if you wanted a fast-growing economy, you needed to promote rapid technical change, and if you intended to promote rapid technical change, you needed to cede to children a strange measure of authority.
It acknowledges formally for the first time since then that the UK's food production and distribution affects not just the countryside and environment but our health, social equity, and whether we will even have enough to eat, as natural resources dwindle and climate change disrupts farming.
- Second, the two houses must agree that they want to create a conference committee in order to resolve the legislative disagreement that they have just acknowledged formally.
"The club wish to acknowledge more formally his contribution at the appropriate time after consultation with his family".
That deal has never been publicly acknowledged or formally completed, and as it stands, Knoblauch will be eligible for free agency after his season.
The university does not formally acknowledge the name.
Instead, she wanted to formally acknowledge the work women were already doing.
The American father must act to formally acknowledge paternity before the child is 18.
