The phrase "ability to curtail" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing someone's capacity or power to limit or reduce something, such as expenses, behavior, or activities.
Example: "The organization has the ability to curtail unnecessary spending in order to allocate resources more effectively."
Alternatives: "capacity to limit" or "power to reduce".
All climate deals are built on the principle that developed countries have more responsibility and ability to curtail growth than developing countries.
She says that her ability to curtail risk-taking and stem losses was undermined by those traders who misvalued their trades and flawed risk metrics.
The objective of this paper is to determine the impact of integrative light rail scenarios and their ability to curtail private vehicle driven urban sprawl in the Flemish rhombus.
In addition to his martial qualities, Vladimir Monomakh was known as an adept administrator, whose ability to curtail the internecine warfare among his princely relatives revived, if only temporarily, the declining strength of Kievan Rus.
The multi-layered composite system consists of three layers and was designed with (i) an outer surface with the capacity to withstand heat fluxes in excess of 25 MW m−2, (ii) an intermediate layer with the ability to curtail diffusion of O2 and (iii) a bottom layer with better performance at high temperatures.
Jason Bordoff, a Columbia University professor and founding director of its Center on Global Energy Policy, said that while the Saudis have a significant ability to curtail production and raise the price, it is a weapon they are unlikely to use.
During this time, he represented the President as junior counsel before the Constitution of the Republic of Singapore Tribunal in Constitutional Reference No. 1 of 1995, which involved the interpretation of provisions of the Constitution of Singapore touching on the ability of Parliament to curtail the President's discretionary powers.
As I talked with Musal Hilal in the El Fasher airport waiting room, he discussed the possibility that he and other janjaweed leaders could have their assets frozen and their ability to travel curtailed.
The imminent dissolution of Parliament limits Mr Lewis's ability to act immediately to curtail such councils.
UPDATE: Jan . 2 , 2018 A previous version of this story cited a study on the ability of zinc supplementation to curtail colds or lessen their severity.
Taken together, these decreases in multiple immuno-competent cell populations, as well as the dampening of lymphocyte activation, underscore the ability of PCI-32765 to curtail the aberrant cellular activation that drives lupus pathogenesis.
