The phrase "acknowledge the scope of" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing the extent or range of a particular topic, issue, or project.
Example: "In our meeting, we need to acknowledge the scope of the project to ensure everyone is on the same page."
Alternatives: "recognize the extent of" or "understand the range of".
Even his critics, though, acknowledge the scope of his challenge.
Her articles helped force the Chinese government to acknowledge the scope of the illness and the reasons for its spread.
Many of them are in no mood even to acknowledge the scope of the problem, as their responses to last week's various commission reports demonstrated.
This blasé attitude, this willful refusal to acknowledge the scope of the horror, leaves the gun nuts free to press their crazy case for more and more guns in ever more hands.
Rather than changing church law himself, Francis used the meeting to try to convince the world's bishops to acknowledge the scope of the abuse problem and to hold themselves accountable for fixing it.
Time keeps passing by and the president is still shifting blame, refusing to acknowledge the scope of his family separations, defending them with falsehoods and peddling unsubstantiated claims about criminals in the migrant caravan.
Weiner acknowledged the scope of the problem and pushed for sensible solutions.
"The F.B.I. is trying to turn the page on this without acknowledging the scope of the problem," he said.
While acknowledging the scope of the problems, I.R.S. officials said they were working to improve on all fronts.
Concerns about the water emerged more than two years ago, but residents' complaints were brushed off until last fall, when Gov. Rick Snyder acknowledged the scope of the problem.
On Thursday in Baghdad, an American brigadier general, Robert L. Davis, acknowledged the scope of the problem, saying that there are 105 large ammunition dumps as well as scores of smaller sites, not all of them guarded regularly.
