The phrase "ability to appoint" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing someone's power or authority to designate or select individuals for a position or role.
Example: "The committee has the ability to appoint new members based on their qualifications and experience."
Alternatives: "power to designate" or "authority to select".
Kirk's appointment was especially controversial, as the Governor's ability to appoint an interim Senator was removed during the Romney administration by the Democratic-controlled legislature, as a precaution if Senator and presidential nominee John Kerry was elected President in 2004.
The governor's authority to choose his own appointments for the state courts was removed, and the ability to appoint his own cabinet was ended.
PCCs have weaker appointment and dismissal powers than police authorities, having lost the ability to appoint and dismiss deputy and assistant chief constables.
However, he will keep the monarch's judicial powers, including the ability to appoint judges and to commute prison sentences.
Lawmakers also expanded the agency's board and gave itself the ability to appoint more people to it.
"A leader can do a lot with the ability to appoint and dismiss cabinet members, and ultimately, the right to call a general election.
His budget is greater and he retains certain abilities to appoint officials in national politics that give him, and national leaders like him, a classical type of power.
Accordingly, last Tuesday night, citizens stared bug-eyed at red-and-blue maps on their TV screens to puzzle out whether Kansans, who constitute less than one per cent of the population, or similarly minuscule bands of Alaskans, Arkansans, or Iowans might determine President Obama's ability to legislate, appoint judges, and ratify treaties.
However, unlike the French model, the Council President does not hold formal powers such as the ability to directly appoint and sack the other, or the ability to dissolve Parliament.
The UN, by contrast, has the ability and authority to appoint a credible investigative team.
Michigan voters considered a measure that would expand the powers of emergency administrators to take over financially troubled local governments, and the ability of governors to appoint them.
