The phrase "abilities to state" is not correct and sounds awkward in written English.
It may be intended to express the capacity or skill to articulate something, but it lacks clarity and proper structure.
Example: "His abilities to state his thoughts clearly were impressive during the presentation."
Alternatives: "skills to articulate" or "capabilities to express".
A seven-page provision included in their contract gives officers the ability to state that they are injured -- and leave work with a full, nontaxable salary -- without first having to prove any injury.
But allowing workers to suggest how their taxes should be used cut take-up of the loophole by 15%.The authors reckon that giving taxpayers the ability to state their views could provide useful information while raising revenues.
The narrative task elicits examinees' ability to state a sequence of events through monologic discourse.
"The ability to state your issues and communicate them clearly on the Internet can be the difference in winning a race, and a website from the late '90s isn't going to cut it," Daschle says.
Some people make the news with controversy; others have the ability to state an opinion and make that become news -- like Fabolous.
With all this in mind, it is mind-boggling that ICD codes are utilized for high quality research publications that ultimately affect patient care (and our ability to state that coffee prolongs life).
These considerations limit our ability to state with confidence that positive outcomes have resulted from case management per se.
Students' ability to state a hypothesis or purpose (HYP) correlated with discussion of scientific background (SCI) and drawing of a conclusion about the original hypothesis (CONC) only.
There were however exceptions, and this limited the ability to state categorically that one test should be used in young animals and another in older animals.
Conversely, ability to state a purpose or a hypothesis (HYP) or draw clear connections between human activities and environmental impacts (CONN) did not improve over time.
