The phrase "acquire the capacity" is correct and can be used in written English.
It means to gain the ability or skill to do something. Here is an example sentence: "With proper training, employees can acquire the capacity to effectively communicate with clients."
Then, during the new government's first week in office in January, Mr. Amaral caused a furor when he argued that Brazil should acquire the capacity to produce a nuclear weapon.
Aid sent money into basic health, education and agriculture, providing stability at a fundamental community level and allowing stretched societies a moment to pause … while helping governments acquire the capacity they needed to govern".
A senior official in the left-wing government that took power last week has set off a furor here and alarmed neighboring countries by arguing that Brazil, Latin America's largest nation, should acquire the capacity to produce a nuclear weapon.
The aid, though never completely fulfilled, also sent money into basic health, education and agriculture, providing stability at a fundamental community level and allowing stretched societies a moment to pause and take a breath while helping governments acquire the capacity they needed to govern.
Babies are bathed in language from the moment they acquire the capacity to hear in the womb, Everett reasoned, and parents and caregivers expend great energy teaching children how to say words and assemble them into sentences — a process that lasts years.
"The acts of cannibalism," write U.N. investigators, "particularly concerning the Pygmies' internal body parts such as the heart and liver, can be considered to be pure fetishism aimed at helping the perpetrators to acquire the capacity and ability of the victims to hunt and live in the forest".
But Mr Blair's main ideas floated at a European summit in Austria on October 25th, and due to be reaffirmed in a speech in Edinburgh on November 13th are clear enough.First, Europe must acquire the capacity, and the political will, to organise some military operations without American help.
How do trigger factors acquire the capacity to precipitate headaches?
Flavours can acquire the capacity to signal nutrient composition and to influence meal size.
Avian flu can acquire the capacity for airborne transmission between mammals without recombination in an intermediate host.
Children, who have finite cognitive resources, typically acquire the capacity to understand the endlessly many expressions of the languages spoken around them.
