"acquired strength" is a grammatically correct and usable phrase in written English.
It typically refers to strength that has been gained or developed over time. Example: After years of rigorous training and discipline, the athlete finally acquired the strength to lift twice her body weight.
For Yang, patience was an acquired strength, born of his struggles last year.
The willingness of the European Council to tackle these sensitive issues in a democratic and participatory way, instead of simply avoiding them altogether, will in time pay off in terms of acquired strength, credibility and legitimacy.
Besides, 2-h CO2 curing accelerated early-stage carbonation inside the porous structure, sequestered 5.6% of CO2 (by weight) in the sediment blocks, and acquired strength comparable to 7-d curing.
He reminds us of Noah Webster's admonition that children's minds be "untainted till their reasoning faculties have acquired strength and the good principles which may be planted … have taken deep root"; and he cites a 1979 opinion in which Justice Lewis F. Powell declares that "the State is entitled to adjust its legal system to account for children's vulnerability".
It is this acquired strength to resist the urge to purchase that which can wait or altogether do not need that will put more money in your savings account, which can then be leveraged to invest.
If contrition could be distilled and bottled, and people could sip the bitter brew of lessons learned--from Cambodia, Rwanda, the genocide of indigenous peoples, American slavery, Jim Crow America, the Holocaust, and so many other examples--you would think, by now, we would have acquired strength and wisdom to not succumb to Kilgraves among us.
Three of the four participants acquired strengths associated with post-trauma growth according to the meaning that they attached to the digital metaphoric imagery.
Yarn acquires strength and abrasion resistance from sizing.
They run distance in the fall to acquire strength for shorter-track racing in the spring and summer.
As he slowly works his way toward the audience, his back straightens and his voice acquires strength from his very revulsion.
But it's an entirely different matter when, for instance, Bowie's "Heroes" is effectively turned into an elegy, Gabriel's vulnerable voice supported by tentative strings which gradually acquire strength, sawing away furiously in minimalist manner, to carry his performance to its climactic epiphany.
