The phrase "acknowledges itself" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where a subject recognizes or validates its own existence or state.
Example: "The organization acknowledges itself as a leader in sustainability practices."
Alternatives: "recognizes its own existence" or "validates itself".
It has published a lot of material that it shouldn't have done – which it periodically acknowledges itself.
The story is a pretty cheap post-modernist game: half-way in, it bitterly acknowledges itself as such, and then goes on for pages and pages, pleading for the reader's love (writer to self: "you're going to have to eat the rat and go ahead and use terms like be with and relationship, and use them sincerely"), and citing Milan Kundera.
The League hereby acknowledges itself to be bound to the Trustees in the sum of One Thousand Dollars, which bond is conditioned upon the safe return of the Stanley Cup to the Trustees in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, and it is agreed that the League shall have the right to return the trophy to the Trustees at any time.
If we would learn from their lost successes in our own era of misrule, reconsidering this idea — that a ruling class should acknowledge itself for what it really is, and act accordingly — might be a fruitful place to start.
But precisely because their attitudes are so bluntly hedonistic and apolitical, Harold and Kumar manage to be fairly persuasive when they get around to criticizing the status quo, which the movie has the wit to acknowledge itself as part of.
Some of them purport to convey the soil alone; and in those cases in which the powers of government, as well as the soil, are conveyed to individuals, the crown has always acknowledged itself to be bound by the grant.
The fundamental point of Douthat's column is that there is such a thing as an American ruling class, and it "should acknowledge itself for what it really is, and act accordingly".
That distortion says much about the Academy — much that the Academy wouldn't like to acknowledge about itself.
It is the underbelly that in a way defines what Bollywood actually is but rarely wants to acknowledge about itself".
That distortion says much about the Academy much that the Academy wouldn't like to acknowledge about itself.
Zillow itself acknowledges errors.
