The phrase "acknowledging terrible" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to express recognition of something terrible, but it lacks context and clarity.
Example: "In the meeting, we spent time acknowledging the terrible impact of the recent events on our community."
Alternatives: "recognizing the awful" or "admitting the dreadful".
In his speech, Cameron acknowledged "terrible mistakes" had been made in the aftermath of the Iraq war but said this time the government had a proper strategy for post-conflict reconstruction on which it was prepared to spend 1 billion pounds ($1.5 billion).
Yet Vollmann, who bases his fiction on extensive interviews with streetwalkers, has always rather prided himself on acknowledging the terrible hurts of their lives: they are often in mortal danger; they hate the work; they're motivated solely by a punishing need for drugs.
Yet she has clung on, simply through not acknowledging her terrible predicament.
This man, perhaps out of guilt, has become an active member of CWRVN after acknowledging how terrible his actions were.
We often wrap uncomfortable emotions and situations in a "pretty bow" rather than acknowledging how terrible and deeply troubling they are.
Efforts to obtain reparations for survivors of the violence have been unsuccessful but the city and state re-examined the events in the early 21st century, acknowledging the terrible actions that had taken place.
Both Norman Tebbit and Geoffrey Howe subsequently acknowledged the terrible error.
We need to acknowledge that terrible failure today".
In the advertisements, McWane's president, G. Ruffner Page, acknowledged "some terrible accidents in our foundries that have caused suffering and heartache to many families".
When Egyptian authorities periodically wheel former president Hosni Mubarak into court on a hospital gurney, Kurtzer acknowledges feeling "terrible" for the man he came to like so well during his ambassadorship.
