The phrase "acknowledged themselves" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to individuals recognizing or admitting their own actions, feelings, or identities.
Example: "After much reflection, they finally acknowledged themselves as part of the community."
Alternatives: "recognized their own" or "admitted to themselves".
It would also give European governments a better chance of weeding out potential bombers – a fact that some Syrian refugees have acknowledged themselves.
In Africa, one in four men has acknowledged themselves to be perpetrators.
As women acknowledged themselves, recall bias is likely.
The stance healthcare professionals adopted towards medicine and technology had an impact on parents' perceptions and decisions; for example, parents were more likely to accept the limitations of existing treatments when healthcare professionals displayed humility and acknowledged themselves that treatments and technology cannot always bring about the desired results [ 50].
And in a way they're acknowledging themselves.
Jones' attempt at laying all this bare begins with a considerable amount of reporting: his undertaking is built upon dozens of interviews with establishment figures, some of whom would acknowledge themselves as such, some of whom wouldn't.
The Russians would acknowledge themselves that a political solution in Syria has to involve the moderate opposition members and yet they are waging a war of attrition against them and killing large numbers of civilians.
In 1772 James Whitchurch wrote in his Essay Upon Education that Locke was "an Author, to whom the Learned must ever acknowledge themselves highly indebted, and whose Name can never be mentioned without a secret Veneration, and Respect; his Assertions being the result of intense Thought, strict Enquiry, a clear and penetrating Judgment".
Harun agreed to terms, which included an annual tribute (30,000 gold nomismata, according to Theophanes, 50,000 according to al-Tabari), but in addition, the Emperor and his son and heir, Staurakios, were to pay a humiliating personal poll-tax (jizya) of three gold coins each to the Caliph (four and two respectively, in Tabari's version), thereby acknowledging themselves as the Caliph's subjects.
Joseph Conrad's writings are used to illustrate instincts or impulses that humans do not always acknowledge in themselves.
"Our whole book, in a sense, is a treatise for the proposition that judges have choices they do not acknowledge to themselves and the world," Mr. Amsterdam said.
