The phrase "acknowledge its potential" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to any entity that has untapped potential that you want to bring to the attention of the reader. For example, "The company's new branch of research and development has a lot of potential and should be acknowledged."
"Keeping it narrowly defined as a Procter thing would not let it acknowledge its potential," said Jim Stengel, the global marketing officer of Procter & Gamble.
A few ideologues still see it as the solution to all our social and economic ills, but most who acknowledge its potential see it as a key tool among several others in the gradual transformation of established economic institutions and structures in pursuit of a more inclusive society.
We have been careful to describe our phenotype as self-reported history of whooping cough to acknowledge its potential heterogeneity.
As the volume of hits was unmanageable, we abandoned the web-search, though we acknowledge its potential usefulness in other areas of service provision.
But pushing "No Fly/No Buy" legislation without even acknowledging its potential discriminatory impact on Arabs and Muslims is not the solution.
The paper says Ukip represents a bigger threat to the Tories than Labour but acknowledges its potential to damage Miliband, saying: "Ukip's early support was largely concentrated in the rural south-west and parts of eastern England.
The New York Times' Dwight Garner lauded the project while acknowledging its potential dangers, concluding: ".
GamesRadar editor Brett Elston labelled Abra's moveset "lame", while acknowledging its potential to evolve into more powerful Pokémon.
The Project was implemented at a time when the responses to HIV in countries in the region were very limited, and there was resistance to acknowledging its potential impact.
Cough was also classified as an URTI symptom, although we acknowledge its additional potential association with lower respiratory tract disease that leads to some potential misclassification of disease categories in the absence of other respiratory symptoms.
Although guidelines in Uganda do not explicitly recognize mobile money as a core banking service, they seemingly acknowledge its significance, potential and implications for banking and therefore underscore the role of SFIs.
