The phrase "acknowledged at the outset" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate that something has been recognized or accepted from the beginning of a discussion or argument.
Example: "The importance of teamwork was acknowledged at the outset of the project, setting the tone for collaboration."
Alternatives: "recognized from the beginning" or "accepted at the start."
If there is a risk of casualties, that fact should be acknowledged at the outset, rather than allowing the public to believe an engagement can be executed antiseptically, on the cheap, with few casualties.
"I have been subjected to every kind of threat of prosecution and punishment known to man practically," Mr. Rattner said during the interview with Mr. Rose, who acknowledged at the outset that he and Mr. Rattner were good friends and that Mr. Rattner had financially supported the show over the years.
Though the background is filled by the Gauguin abstract shapes that have become the International Symbol for Tropics, the harsh reality of poor island life that Gauguin ignored is acknowledged at the outset, as the actors run through the darkness illuminated only by the lightning flashes of a thunderstorm.
While Bernanke acknowledged at the outset that the economy was showing signs of flagging, he did not dwell much on the fact that monetary policy works with a lag and that core inflation tends to rise and fall when the economy slows down, said John Lonski, chief economist at Moody's.
This entry doesn't purport to do justice to the intricacy and subtlety of the topic of realism; it should be acknowledged at the outset that the fragmentation of which Wright speaks renders it unlikely that the label "moral anti-realism" even succeeds in picking out a definite position.
The medical residents acknowledged at the outset that they had, in their words, "few tools" to respond to the situations of socioeconomically disadvantaged patients.
Lust, Blackburn acknowledges at the outset of his essay, "subverts propriety".
"The despised zabaleen people are treated like the lowest of the low," he acknowledges at the outset of the novel, "left to live like pigs, scrabbling through the city streets for garbage to recycle".
Rather, they relate to the openness of the system and the academic preparedness of its students, who, as Cole acknowledges at the outset, play almost no role in this volume.
Hitchings acknowledges at the outset that a global history of manners would necessarily take in Confucius, Cicero, the Talmud, the Islamic code of adab, and goodness knows what else, so he wisely restricts himself to the English and starts with the medieval.
To avoid big mistakes, we have to acknowledge at the outset that they are a possibility.
