The phrase "acquired the potential" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the development or attainment of a capability or ability over time.
Example: "After years of training, she finally acquired the potential to lead the team effectively."
Alternatives: "gained the ability" or "developed the capacity."
In fact, enclaves were quite common before modern national borders became significant [8], which is when they acquired the potential to wreak geostrategical havoc.
Along the way, we now know, he acquired the potential to make up to $100 million in business dealings involving these same oil reserves.
These initially non-metastatic cells, once retrieved from the tumors, acquired the potential to colonize and grow in bone.
The NIH3T3 fibroblasts overexpressing active PAK4 (S474E) mutant displayed oncogenic transformation and acquired the potential of anchorage-independent survival, whereas dominant-negative PAK4 inhibited foci formation.
In other words, only pronounced vascular infiltration, rather than focal or sparse, could more likely suggest that tumor cells have acquired the potential to nest at distance.
There are indications that the evolutionary design of catalatic enzymes could have started in Archaean already some 3.5 billion years ago – at the time when the ancestral planctonic bacteria acquired the potential of aerobic respiration [4].
The identification of these cellular proteins will help to elucidate the mechanisms by which the viruses acquire the potential to become pandemic in the human population.
Whenever saturated air leaves the humidifier chamber at 37°C and condensate accumulates in the circuit, the gas loses humidity and acquires the potential to dry airway secretions near the tip of the endotracheal tube.
A programmed switching system combined with an array of potentiometric sensors consisting of seven potentiometric sensors (i.e., ion-selective or cross-selective electrodes) was connected directly to a pH/potentiometer and a computer (PC) to sequentially acquire the potential corresponding to water sample mixtures.
For example, Microsoft has acquired Yahoo, by applying record linkage technique on their client databases, and we can not only obtain common clients between them, but also acquire the potential new clients from Yahoo, which has significant business value for Microsoft.
