The phrase "acknowledging the argument" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing or recognizing a particular point or reasoning in a debate or discussion.
Example: "In the context of this debate, acknowledging the argument presented by the opposition is crucial for a balanced analysis."
Alternatives: "recognizing the argument" or "accepting the argument".
Indeed, Mr. Greenspan all but repudiated the traditional framework economists use to judge the risks of inflation, acknowledging the argument that the economy is changing so rapidly that policy makers can no longer rely on some of the old rules.
"The U.S. overseas presence is costly, increasingly complex and of growing security concern," the report says, without acknowledging the argument of many in the State Department that there are too few Americans now poised to explain American policy to a world increasingly suspicious of Washington's motives.
At the Los Angeles Times, the paper summed up its position in an editorial Friday titled "The Right Way," acknowledging the arguments on all sides but concluding that "the Bush administration's months of attempts to justify quick military action against Iraq have been confusing and unfocused". The paper added that "this nation cannot muscle its way out of all of its international disputes.
But Republicans have refused to believe Mr Obama is serious, or even to acknowledge the argument.
Few European governments seem ready to acknowledge the argument that their far-flung interventions turn their own citizens against them.
Mrs. Kroes, a Dutch economist, acknowledged the argument in her speech but said operators were using market developments as an excuse to maintain unreasonably high charges.
On the chilling effect on the industry: Cote is careful to acknowledge the argument Apple made in court -- that essentially punishing the company for trying to break into a new market will discourage others from doing so in the future.
Mariana Mazzucato is R M Phillips Professor of Science and Technology Policy at the University of Sussex, and author of The Entrepreneurial State (@mazzucatom) The settlement is close to the upper limits of expectations of research-intensive universities and we should gracefully acknowledge the argument put by Cable and Willetts and accepted by the Treasury.
More importantly, the court did at least acknowledge the argument that indecency rules could be "overruled" because the once scarce public airwaves have been "overtaken by technological change and the wide availability of multiple other choices for listeners and viewers".
First, I acknowledged the arguments for the bill.
Then he acknowledged the arguments of the leadership.
