The phrase "acknowledges the general" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where someone is recognizing or accepting a broad or overarching idea or principle.
Example: "The report acknowledges the general consensus among experts regarding climate change."
Alternatives: "recognizes the overall" or "accepts the broad".
Katz acknowledged the general quirkiness of representing a client shrouded in so much uncertainty.
Mr. Bowman acknowledged the general principle that he had no right to make a new product with Monsanto's seeds.
But most observers acknowledge the general situation is dire – and has the potential to turn into a long-term tragedy.
"I lost to one of the greatest boxers in boxing," he said, as if he were relieved to be able to acknowledge the general consensus, and join it.
More importantly, and as you have acknowledged, the general public overwhelmingly supports the president's decision.The army remains strictly under the control of the civil administration and has been called in only to assist the "caretaker" government.
But Axelrod also informed them that the president would continue to acknowledge the general discontent with Washington in his public comments, in the hope that he might help lessen what White House aides sometimes call the "toxicity" in the air.
Salman Rushdie has acknowledged the general truth that it was Grass with his swirling comedic and fantastic narratives, his reworked fairytales and hilarious invective, who prefigured magical realism and showed how it could be used to tell European stories.
He told the BBC News website he was "not embarrassed" at advising industry, but acknowledged the general public was "very sceptical".
Summers acknowledged the "general clash between [women's] legitimate family desires" and the intense time demands of fast-track academic careers.
He acknowledged the general had come to him with the allegation more than a year earlier and asked for a written complaint.
