The phrase "acknowledged by using" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing a method or manner in which something is recognized or accepted.
Example: "The findings of the study were acknowledged by using a comprehensive review of existing literature."
Alternatives: "recognized through" or "validated by means of".
In this new world, as Julian Assange has acknowledged by using trusted news organisations to reveal the secrets, the process of editing and sifting and contextualising stories becomes more crucial than ever.
For some players, all those days without pay and dollars will only provide a reason to cheat the test, as some Olympic athletes and pro football players have acknowledged, by using a masking agent or by sneaking a bottle of a clean teammate's urine.
These issues should be acknowledged by studies using routine data as a secondary data source, and further work is merited to examine whether similar discrepancies exist for other clinical conditions or within primary care research databases.
Christopher Zigmont, Tune's marketing director, acknowledged that, by using a hub for its system, up to 4percentt of a rider's actual output may be missing from its readings.
It is acknowledged that, by using reverse chronology to chart a seven-year-long affair, Pinter probes the corrosive nature of betrayal.
Mr. Kerik, in a settlement he signed with the board Wednesday, acknowledged that by using his subordinates, he had violated the City Charter and the terms of a board waiver he had obtained.
It is therefore fair (and reasonable) to acknowledge it by using the adjectives viable or inviable for our admissible discontinuity curves.
However, patients did acknowledge that by using this approach adherence might be over-reported by some patients.
The Fed put pressure on the banks to acknowledge their mistakes by using some of their profits to increase reserves to cover dubious loans.
Architectural historian Vincent Scully acknowledged its architectural significance by using a photo of it as the frontispiece for his book Modern Architecture and Other Essays.
However, as was acknowledged by these researchers, the studies using community electronic records are subject to some limitations such as recall and selection bias; thus, the results should be interpreted with caution.
