The phrase "acknowledges needs" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where someone is recognizing or validating the requirements or desires of individuals or groups.
Example: "The organization acknowledges needs of the community and strives to address them through various programs."
Alternatives: "recognizes requirements" or "validates demands".
Mr. King, 61, runs his one-man operation from the small guest room of his home on a tree-shaded cul-de-sac in the Atlanta suburb of Marietta, equipped with an aging desktop computer and a chair that he acknowledges "needs a new coat of duct tape".
He insists his doping days are behind him, and now he could perhaps "be a bridge" between the anti-doping authorities and boxing, a sport he acknowledges needs to do more testing.
One is the original, un-amended Coalition bill, which everyone acknowledges needs fixing.
By every objective measure, Obamacare is a huge success, even in its current state, which everybody acknowledges needs substantial tweaking (just as Social Security did when first implemented).
Diversity in the environmental field and action sports is something Cesare acknowledges needs to be dealt with in order to progress both fields and is a mission for him as an environmentalists and business owner.
That's a bit more than the $8.25 an hour McDonald's pays its workers -- a wage that even McDonald's acknowledges needs to be supplemented with a second job to make ends meet, and those "ends" include rent of just $600 and no budget for heat -- but it's hard to see how an annual salary of less than $23,000 a year is a better bargain for the middle class.
Sexting cases, the CPS acknowledges, need to be carefully assessed particularly when they involve children.
It's a problem the organizers acknowledge needs to be addressed.
However a widely acknowledged need for capacity building and co-creation ultimately informed project activities.
Green said he was keen to have a hands-on role in the department, which he acknowledged needed huge improvement.
The bride wore a strapless fairy princess gown that, she acknowledged, needed months of exercise to adapt to.
