The phrase "ability to decline" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing someone's capacity or option to refuse or reject something, such as an offer or invitation.
Example: "She has the ability to decline any invitations that do not align with her schedule."
Alternatives: "capacity to refuse" or "option to reject".
In New York, regulations like rent stabilization not only limit the amount by which some landlords can raise rents but also restrict a landlord's ability to decline to renew a lease.
Through conscious awareness of yourself, you have to develop the ability to decline invitations to journey down into other peoples' rabbit holes.
It would end parents' ability to decline vaccinations for children when they are enrolled in public and private schools and day care centers.
This includes the ability to decline to follow medical advice, guidelines or policy [ 1].
Moreover, the lack of counselling was found to hinder people's ability to decline testing, hence raising serious ethical concerns.
This expectation of women's sexual passivity may affect their ability to decline sex which they feel will be unpleasurable, unfulfilling or simply unwanted [ 15, 18].
For example, behavioral and/or mental ability starts to decline during early aging, prior to any dramatic structural or morphological dysfunction (Salthouse, 2004; Guo et al., 2012).
Because young chimpanzees don't share food with the older ones, old chimps, like most other wild animals in general, starve to death relatively soon after their food production ability begins to decline [ 66].
9 Longitudinal research shows that fluid cognitive abilities tend to decline beginning in early to mid-adulthood, while crystallised abilities are stable over time with age.
Although empathy is critical in a doctor patient relationship, empathic abilities seem to decline throughout medical school.
And yet, somehow, America has this amazing ability to not decline.
