The phrase "acknowledged debts" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to finance, legal matters, or discussions about obligations and liabilities.
Example: "The company has settled all acknowledged debts and is now in a strong financial position."
Alternatives: "recognized obligations" or "accepted liabilities."
Even such exponents of modern realism as Georg Brandes and Henrik Ibsen acknowledged debts of inspiration owed to Heiberg.
The emotionalism of Mr. Flavin's early work never disappeared, but was relegated to the elaborate dedication titles with which he acknowledged debts and admirations both personal and artistic.
Alt comedy echoed the versatility of the spaces where it lived: its performers acknowledged debts to improvisational comedy, indie rock, spoken word, performance art, avant-garde film, and theatre; they delivered PowerPoint presentations, sang deadpan songs, argued with planted audience members, and told jokes about the nature of jokiness.
For instance, he uses the Stoic and Galenist notion of animal spirits (tailored to his own mechanistic physics), cites Vives on the physiology of laughter (AT XI 422, CSM I 372), and shows numerous, if rarely acknowledged, debts to Montaigne, Lipsius, and Suarez.
The postmodern, pluralist era owes a huge, insufficiently acknowledged debt to the Whole Earth Catalog.
Well-paid Americans owe an enormous, if rarely acknowledged, debt to the social investments that supported their success.
Sweden, in particular, always held him in high esteem, partly because of his publicly acknowledged debt to the influence of the Swedish playwright August Strindberg, whose tragic themes often echo in O'Neill's plays.
Visitors to the Royal Academy's 2008 exhibition featuring the bleak, haunting, minimalist interiors of the Danish painter Vilhelm Hammershøi (1864-1916), about whom Michael Palin made an admiring documentary, will recognise affinities and note Dreyer's acknowledged debt.
There's a clear and acknowledged debt here to the French architect Edouard François, who also likes to play with castings of old architecture, but Taha prides himself on the fact that his concrete is load-bearing, not just a cladding.
The show acknowledges debts to The Red Balloon and The Snowman, but it never reaches the heights of either.
Doesn't that matter more?" The school seemed to acknowledge debt to Hurd, retweeting a comment from someone linking to her blog.
