The phrase "ability to command a" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing someone's skill or capacity to exert control or influence over something or someone.
Example: "Her ability to command a room full of executives is truly impressive."
Alternatives: "capacity to lead a" or "skill to direct a".
In Tomlin's case, Rooney said, his ability to command a room overwhelmed the brevity of his career.
Traditionally, the prime minister, chosen for her ability to command a parliamentary majority, towers over the legislative branch.
These terraces also demonstrate the Inca Empire's ability to command a large labor force to build these walls.
Thomas is relatively unproven in the post, and he will have to show enough scoring ability to command a double team.
Mourning's ability to command a double team requires the Nets to sign a perimeter threat, Scott said, adding that Thorn has been talking with Lucious Harris's agent.
Talent and skill aren't enough, nor is beauty, the ability to walk confidently from the sea in a bikini, or the ability to command a room.
He never lost the ability to command an audience, small or large... Death, he argued, must never be seen as acceptable.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is playing hardball with President Trump again — and this time hitting him where it hurts: his ability to command an audience.
"Like many celebrities, Burbank sometimes found it hard to remember that the ability to command an audience does not necessarily mean you have anything important to say," Ms. Smith writes.
I thought of Chief Justice Rehnquist, and the deft way he used his office's ability to command an audience, when I read the year-end report that his successor, Chief Justice Roberts, issued this past weekend.
It is a measure of Tyson's ability to command an audience across a diversity of platforms that when National Geographic approached him about helming his own show, it was to host what amounted to the first-ever weekly late-night talkshow based around science.
