The phrase "ability to call a" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing someone's capacity or skill to make a phone call or to invoke a function or method in programming.
Example: "Her ability to call a meeting on short notice is impressive and shows her leadership skills."
Alternatives: "capacity to make a" or "skill to initiate a".
Bill Daly, the N.H.L. deputy commissioner, conceded Tuesday that the union's maneuvers in Alberta and Quebec could affect the league's ability to call a lockout in those provinces.
The prime minister holds a powerful if unspoken sanction over its members: the ability to call a snap general election in which many would lose their seats.
During the postseason Colorado pitchers raved about his ability to call a game, crediting him for guiding them past a potent Philadelphia team in the opening round.
The union's decision not to extend the G.M. contract indefinitely gives it the ability to call a strike on short notice, its ultimate weapon in bargaining.
I assume he believed that we were not so different from the citizens of Iraq, who had long since lost the ability to call a lie a lie, or to contradict anything they were told by officials.
After more than a month of negotiations, including the company dropping conditions that limited Mr. Peltz's ability to call a special meeting of shareholders, Ingersoll offered him a seat on the board.
We also need to look seriously at the immense power prime ministers wield through their ability to call an election whenever they want.
Luckily, I have the ability to call an expert to come fix my TV.
The mean region size serves as an indication of a program's ability to call an entire abnormality as a single abnormal region.
An important feature that is not currently available, however, is the ability to call an external program to perform an automatic analysis such as gene sequence annotation.
Yet a nation's ability to call itself a democracy often buys it sympathy among voters in the West and among human-rights advocates everywhere.
