The phrase "acquiring credibility" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing the process of gaining trust or respect in a particular field or context.
Example: "In order to succeed in this industry, it is essential for professionals to focus on acquiring credibility through their work and achievements."
Alternatives: "building credibility" or "gaining credibility".
These are Mafiosi who say, 'I've killed a hundred people and this is how, so now I'm credible.' Having acquired credibility by telling the truth in 100 cases, they can add something untrue in the 101st.
One of Shakespeare's most clumsy plot devices suddenly acquires credibility.
He acquired credibility, and a dialogue developed where before there had been nothing but grim silence or hostility.
Ludo Van der Heyden, who runs a programme on family firms at INSEAD, a business school, tells his students to build careers first outside their family business, so that they acquire credibility.
The coming year is apparently going to be the one when self-help books acquire credibility, something they could surely have achieved a lot sooner without vacuous titles referencing planets, cheese and parachutes.
As White demonstrates, he acquired credibility as his pursuers lost theirs: Joseph McCarthy, Vietnam and Watergate proved the government capable of vicious lying and exposed the corruption of Hiss's initial prosecutors, most notably a young congressman, Richard M. Nixon.
They explore the relevance of physical and social settings in the making of scientific knowledge, the methods appropriate to understanding science historically, dietetics as a compelling site for historical inquiry, the identity of those who have made scientific knowledge, and the means by which science has acquired credibility and authority.
A study on sterility rumors in Africa asserted that in absence of the truth, rumors acquire credibility[ 25].
But as the 150th anniversary of the War of the Pacific looms the forlorn fleet of small patrol boats and catamarans is acquiring more credibility.
But the allegations soon acquired greater credibility.
