The phrase "acknowledged at the first" is not commonly used in written English and may sound awkward.
It could be used in contexts where you want to refer to something that was recognized or accepted initially, but it may require rephrasing for clarity.
Example: "The proposal was acknowledged at the first meeting, setting the stage for further discussions."
Alternatives: "recognized initially" or "accepted at the outset."
Her younger brother is Gilbert Gottfried, the comedian and actor known for voicing Iago, the strident parrot in Disney's "Aladdin," and for making what's widely acknowledged as the first 9/11 joke, at a Friars Club roast less than a month after the towers fell.
Four years before Mr. Clinton took office, President George Bush acknowledged at the end of his first week that there had been "ripples" of trouble.
In a disturbing disconnect, the series still promote as solutions not only purchased farm chemicals but genetically modified seeds; yet the cost of these seeds puts them out of reach of many poor farmers, as acknowledged at the tail end of the second piece in the series.
Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, and Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president, acknowledged at the recent G20 summit for the first time that they might abandon Greece to its fate a devastating shift from leaders who had always insisted that the euro would survive intact at any price.
As he himself acknowledged, at first it seemed that he had moved too quickly.
But, as I talked to the Kachadoorians and Lobello, and half a dozen other members of Fox Company, it became clear that things were far worse than anyone had acknowledged at first.
She acknowledged at first that Armex sent a portion of their wages to a North Korean company, but later said she had misspoken and no one took a cut.
YouTube star turned author Zoe Sugg (AKA Zoella) says she is writing the sequel to her record busting debut novel Girl Online without the help of author Siobhan Curham, whose unacknowledged role as co-writer wasn't clearly acknowledged at first – causing a whole heap of controversy.
Such an elevation, doctors acknowledged at a second press conference, is indicative of a heart attack.
Arkadina is being unfair — the piece is a little too heavily symbolic ("And the weary moon in heaven lights her lamp in vain"), but it has an otherworldly appeal, which Dr. Dorn David Raschee) acknowledges at the end of Chekhov's first act, when he tells Konstantin, "You tackled a difficult subject, an abstract one.
