The phrase "acknowledged something that" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to recognizing or admitting a particular fact or situation that follows in the context.
Example: "During the meeting, she acknowledged something that had been overlooked in the previous discussions."
Alternatives: "recognized a fact that" or "admitted something that".
His method acknowledges something that political operatives, journalists and candidates rarely do: Presidential campaigns don't matter much in determining winners and losers.
GREEN -- Is that a change, or are we just acknowledging something that was always so? RUDNICK -- I think it was always so, but it often was disguised.
In addition to making the city a more attractive place to work, the new contract acknowledges something that unions have often denied: teachers are not all interchangeable and some deserve to be paid more than others.
This also sounds like one of those "launches" that acknowledges something that's already in-progress.
What Diablo 3's auction house also represents, though, is a fascinating fiscal experiment in its own right – not least because it explicitly acknowledges something that has been implicitly true within online gaming for a long time: economics is an awful lot of fun.
What is needed is for the European creditors to acknowledge something that is widely accepted: that Greece cannot pay back all of the money.
"What is needed is for the European creditors to acknowledge something that is widely accepted: that Greece cannot pay back all of the money". One practical complication is that even if Greece had voted Yes, the June 26 proposals were already off the table.
Explaining the phrase, he says, "It's used when you're acknowledging something that you don't really want to acknowledge".
By packaging famous people like any other consumer product, she says, Keep a Child Alive is acknowledging something that many A-listers already know.
Her government could begin by acknowledging something that it must know but rarely admits – the other 27 EU countries have national interests too.
