'acknowledge openly' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
For example, you might write: "The prime minister finally acknowledged openly that the decision had been a mistake." You can use this phrase in situations where someone needs to admit that something is true, even if it is not an easy admission to make.
"We need to acknowledge openly that gender remains at issue at the highest levels," she told students at Harvard Business School and their families.
Only one man within the leadership was prepared to acknowledge openly that the students were patriots with legitimate grievances that the party needed to listen to: Zhao Ziyang, who had replaced Hu as general secretary.
Mr. New is, as he should be, delightful and appalling in these scenes, making good on Steven's assertion that laughter is his release for an anger too dangerous to acknowledge openly.
This could force Israel to acknowledge openly its nuclear arsenal and to formalize a deterrence doctrine that could be applied against its potential adversaries — steps that so far the Israelis have refused to take.
Britain's official reticence about the post-Hussein era, he suggested, reflected the government's reluctance in recent weeks to acknowledge openly that its war aims went beyond the disarmament of Mr. Hussein to envision his removal.
But the political will to acknowledge openly the chasm between graduation requirements and college or job needs is new, Dr. Tisch; David M. Steiner, the state education commissioner; and John King, the deputy state education commissioner, said in interviews last week.
But none of these are acknowledged openly during class, until the final exercise.
A lawyer for the Democratic National Committee last week ruled out retaliating in kind, acknowledging openly that it coordinates with state Democrats.
If a body with a statutory responsibility for safe conveyance faces an increasingly serious problem that it acknowledges openly that it does not understand, it is obliged to take immediate action.
But in recent years the party has begun to acknowledge more openly that there may a role for them.
Even if few will acknowledge it openly, the sexual abuse crisis has cast a shadow over John Paul's legacy.
