The phrase "ability to ban" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing someone's or something's power or capacity to prohibit or restrict access to something or someone.
Example: "The moderator has the ability to ban users who violate the community guidelines."
Alternatives: "power to prohibit" or "capacity to restrict".
There is talk of changing the rules for appointing judges and limiting their ability to ban political parties.
The ability to ban candidates is a serious authority that must be exercised openly, judiciously and rarely.
Facebook has the ability to ban, sue, warn or audit developers of apps who break their policies.
It contains numerous new powers, including the ability to ban "extremist" organisations, gag individuals and empower local councils to close premises used to "promote hatred".
The new plans will introduce the ability to ban radical preachers from posting material online, while powers for parents to withdraw passports from their children will be extended to all youngsters under the age of 18.
In advance of the June 12 protest the Parliament rushed through and President Vladimir Putin hurriedly signed a new law that greatly expands the government's ability to ban protests — and to punish the protesters.
Subsequently, he wrote an anti-gambling resolution into the league constitution, which empowered him with the ability to permanently ban any NFL associated personnel for betting on a game or for withholding information on a game being possibly fixed.
No one yet knows what the Iraqis were up to, but lately Mr. Blix has sounded as if he gives some credence to the possibility that Iraq really did destroy virtually all of its weapons and toxic agents, retaining only the ability to start banned programs up again once the world stopped looking.
Families will have the ability to ask gaming venues to ban pokies addicts.
They also want to ban the ability of senators to place an anonymous "hold" on a bill or nomination.
Advertising industry representatives attending the meetings were equally vocal in their displeasure over attempts to ban their ability to follow what people view online, which they argued would undermine the advertising-supported model used by most free services on the Web.
