The phrase "ability to advise" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing someone's capacity or skill to provide guidance or recommendations in a particular area.
Example: "Her ability to advise clients on financial matters has earned her a strong reputation in the industry."
Alternatives: "capacity to counsel" or "skill to guide".
This then undermines their ability to advise parents.
Staff at the Citizens Advice Bureau are also grappling with looming funding uncertainties that they fear will impact on their ability to advise local residents with debt problems.
"I cannot have public confusion between scientific advice and policy and have therefore lost confidence in your ability to advise me as chair of the ACMD".
Britain's global reputation for the rule of law does not rest simply on our ability to advise on corporate mergers but on judgments such as that of the court of appeal.
Mr. Millar said that transit systems have the ability to advise all trains or buses of an attack, but need to work out procedures, determining, for example, whether trains should stop immediately if one were attacked, or should pull into stations or get off bridges.
Days after Witt's withdrawal, The Times reported that Yale's coach, Tom Williams, had invented parts of his résumé, including a supposed Rhodes candidacy that he had dropped two decades earlier in favor of a chance at a professional football career — an experience that he said gave him a unique ability to advise Witt on his tough choice.
Yesterday, Mr. O'Neill acknowledged that whether he liked it or not, his Alcoa holdings could limit his abilities to advise President Bush.
They did not always adhere to or inform about guidelines [ 62– 64], were not confident in their abilities to advise women about alcohol use during pregnancy, may be unable to manage affirmative responses to alcohol consumption and may be reluctant to intervene [ 61].
The ability for Caldbeck to advise the Founder on building the onboarding process is optimized.
There was a time until the last government, when that person could call upon someone of ability who knew how to advise him, and who could take up his cudgel if necessary.
After interviewing nearly 300 faculty from five universities where graduate students had unionized within the previous 4 years, he concluded that the overwhelming majority of those surveyed do not think that the union interferes with their ability to teach or advise students [ Journal of Collective Negotiations 29, 153 (2000)].
