"acknowledge the merit" is a correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It means to recognize or admit the value or worth of something or someone. Example: The committee unanimously voted to acknowledge the merit of the proposal and move it forward for further consideration.
His commanding officer failed to acknowledge the merit of the plan and chided the candidate for not having fired a single shot.
But it would be a churlish viewer who refused to acknowledge the merit in these roundelays, which hide complex plotting and emotional turmoil beneath apparently shambolic exteriors.
Collectively, the discrete student perspectives in this study acknowledge the merit of student educator interactions for safe experiential learning.
Most gratifying for me was the satisfaction of having my now adult son acknowledge the merits of my co-parenting philosophy and choices.
Just as disappointing are the self-proclaimed feminist boys ― the ones who have listened to girls describe their frustrations about daily injustices, but in this moment chose to stay silent or only spoke to acknowledge the merits of both sides.
4) I feel that the remark "the failure of existing systems to quantitatively capture gait ataxia" (in the subsection "Interlimb and whole-body coordination are specifically impaired in pcd") is a bit too strong and does not acknowledge the merits of previous quantifications (e.g. Erasmus Ladder and transparent disk treadmill, which both can also quantify interlimb coordination).
Diamond, on leave this year to be a Radcliffe Fellow, acknowledged the merit of Tough's focus on parenting.
The university seems to have acknowledged the merits of the project in the past.
While Cutler acknowledges the merits of such an approach, he also sees its problems.
In fairness, Mr Straw acknowledged the merits of front-line news and deplored delay and censorship that once 'helped governments to suppress the truth'.
Established by Napoleon I in 1808, membership in the Order of the French Academic Palms acknowledges the merits, talents, and exemplary activities of academics in service to French education and culture.
