The phrase "acquire the capability of" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing the process of gaining a specific skill or ability.
Example: "To succeed in this competitive market, companies must acquire the capability of adapting quickly to changing consumer demands."
Alternatives: "gain the ability to" or "develop the skill of".
Israel has threatened to launch a pre-emptive strike against Iran's nuclear facilities, arguing that they are being used to acquire the capability of building nuclear weapons.
A recent advance is the successful engineering of a chimera from two BoNTs to acquire the capability of re-targeting a more active moiety to sensory neurons, with resultant inhibition of the release of a pain mediator.
In this work, we asked if Ors can be expressed in GRNs and if these GRNs would then acquire the capability of sensing volatile molecules.
We conclude from these results that, during their differentiation osteoclasts derived from Raw264.7 cells or primary bone marrow progenitors acquire the capability of secreting chemotactic factors able to attract osteoblast precursors and, to a lower extent mature osteoblasts.
Circulating and disseminated tumor cells derived from the primary tumor and possessing advantageous biological characteristics could acquire the capability of generating metastasis.
A fifth perinatal process involves the maturation of immature dendritic cells to produce interleukin (IL-12) (counterbalancing IL-10 production) and acquire the capability of promoting T-helper 1 (TH1) or type 1 responses.
In the letter, Mr. Tenet said there was "credible reporting" that Qaeda leaders had sought contacts in Iraq that could help them acquire the capability to use weapons of mass destruction, and that "Iraq has provided training to Al Qaeda members in the areas of poisons and gases and making conventional bombs".
Figure 3 Proportion of terrorist organisations for each value of degree of connections which acquire the capability to carry out Level 1 attacks, average across 1,000 solutions.
We show that the cognitive architecture can account for acquiring the capability of deciding when to speak in order to achieve a certain goal (instead of performing a non-verbal action or simply doing nothing), whom to address and what to say.
It acquired the capability of undertaking planetary exploration missions when the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) was commissioned in 1995 and embarked on an ambitious program for study of planets in the solar system at the turn of the century.
Remarkably, upon activation, also the so called "unlicensed" NK cells, i.e. NK cells not expressing inhibitory receptor specific for self HLA class I molecules, acquired the capability of efficiently killing autologous melanoma cells, thus additionally contributing to the lysis by a mechanism independent of HLA class I expression on melanoma cells.
