The phrase "ability to coerce" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing power dynamics, influence, or control over others.
Example: "The organization demonstrated an alarming ability to coerce its employees into compliance with unethical practices."
Alternatives: "capacity to compel" or "power to force".
An additional and central feature of this new picture is that America's ability to coerce other countries to obey it — whether by economic or military means — has been drastically reduced.
Though many supervised machine learning algorithms have the ability to coerce classification distribution, the NB machine learning algorithm naturally produces posterior probabilities without coercion [19].
But this sort of claim to reward and punish does not give the church the ability to coerce, at least as this concept is usually understood in political contexts.
In a kingdom of competing ideals, the religious establishment's ability to inculcate disproportionately relies on its ability to coerce -- in particular, through Islamic courts and the power of enforcement.
If we cannot, then the Soviet ability to coerce our allies - to Finlandize other nations - will increase, and our security decrease, as a result of the premature elimination of all nuclear weapons.
It knows best and its ability to coerce makes it a tool of righteousness: it can force the greedy, myopic, prejudiced, ignorant and foolish to do what's right - according to progressive doctrine.
For instance, the police and army are quite obviously instruments of force and coercion, but it would be facile to say that they have power simply because of their ability to physically coerce.
Under such a scenario, instead of indicating attractiveness, variation in male mating success (i.e. stud vs dud males) may reflect differences in the ability of males to coerce or otherwise cause females to mate beyond their natural selection optimum, and the ability of females to resist this.
Compellence, the ability of one state to coerce another state into action, usually by threatening punishment.
"Syria seeks to neutralize Israel's ability to employ nuclear blackmail to coerce it into accepting unfavorable conditions for a peace settlement.
"They're using the power of taxation to coerce behavior.
