The phrase "ability and propensity" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing someone's skills or tendencies towards certain behaviors or actions.
Example: "Her ability and propensity for leadership make her an ideal candidate for the position."
Alternatives: "capability and inclination" or "skill and tendency".
There are striking similarities between Erdoğan's Turkey and Putin's Russia, not least their ability and propensity to move conflicts into the covert arena.
First, we expect the reduction in lender monitoring to be more pronounced when lenders have higher ability and propensity to hedge credit risk using CDSs.
Probably the single facet of their accomplishments that amazed me the most, notwithstanding the actual flight, was the Wright brothers ability and propensity to finance their projects solely on their own.
Within species, vagility (i.e., ability and propensity to disperse) is predicted to be favored during range expansion episodes [12], [13].
This relationship suggests that traits enhancing vagility (i.e., high dispersal ability and propensity) would be frequently favoured in regions heavily influenced by glacial cycles [20], such as northern Europe where we consistently found a less-distinct species composition of plots and a slower distance decay in floristic similarity than in southern Europe (Figures 2 and 3).
Second, advanced students, to a large extent, also have been self-selected for their ability and propensity to learn biology.
Optimizing this process are our cognitive abilities and propensity to critical thinking, which are both associated with analytical processing (Evans and Stanovich, 2013).
Spatio-temporally variable landscapes may drive selection of traits that promote dispersal, as greater dispersal abilities and propensity to disperse in these landscapes may confer fitness advantages, allowing individuals and populations to track available resources and escape declining local conditions.
One feminist aim is that of caring i.e., the fostering of students' abilities and propensities to care for themselves and others.
One of the great dangers of religious belief is man's ability (and indeed propensity) to rationalize his actions and, in the case of the faithful, excuse them as the "will of God".
They are an abundant, diverse component of most forest ecosystems — this, along with their weak flight ability and low propensity to migrate [24], [25], make them excellent indicators of environmental quality [26].
