The phrase "ability to call on" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to someone's capacity to utilize or access a resource, skill, or person when needed.
Example: "Her ability to call on her extensive network of contacts helped her secure the funding for the project."
Alternatives: "capacity to draw upon" or "skill to access".
Without their protected profits and ability to call on Westminster to back up their trading practices with power, would Britain's economy have taken off 300 years ago?
Matthew Herman, head of the firm's corporate practice in the United States, says the ability to call on partners from as far as China and Germany gives it an edge.
Madaleno said he does not think the bill has much of a shot at passing and could run into legal trouble if approved because of the federal government's ability to call on the Guard in times of national emergency.
For two years now, Mr. Farber has parlayed his love for Denver and his ability to call on a network of lobbying clients to help him with the daunting task of raising the $40 million, or more, that Democrats need to run their convention.
"As a local chairman, my ability to call on 40, 50, 60 volunteers in a short period of time, and to have them down there quick to help out, was quite an asset," said Paul Beding haus, the Florida Republican Party treasurer and the Pinellas County chairman.
But Sony would also have benefited from better leadership, a less toxic corporate culture and a crisis management team with the ability to call on government support.
The Republican may have the ability to call for a recount, depending on the final vote tallies.
Through analysis and through our ability to call back on our experience with tile, it was judged that that event did not represent a safety concern.
But Rock's ability to call nonsense on every awards convention and its unpersuasive niceties was something he could do with ease even in the more formal confines of a televised show, and should do at the Oscars.
The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) "systems-based practice" competency invokes advocacy by requiring residents/fellows to demonstrate an awareness of and responsiveness to the larger context and system of health care, as well as the ability to call effectively on other resources in the system to provide optimal health care [ 40].
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.
