The phrase "ability to designate" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing someone's capacity or power to assign or choose something or someone for a specific role or purpose.
Example: "The manager has the ability to designate team leaders for each project based on their skills and experience."
Alternatives: "capacity to assign" or "power to appoint".
For example, to add unlimited subtasks or have the ability to designate tasks to friends or colleagues, you'll have to pay $5 a month.
Timothy F. Geithner, the Treasury secretary and chairman of the council, said the ability to designate so-called nonbank financial companies for heightened supervision was "one of the most important things that the Dodd-Frank Act did".
"The city has the ability to designate a developer and tie the hands of the incoming administration," said Steven Banks, attorney-in-chief of the Legal Aid Society, which is representing the tenants.
As well as Saudi-style counselling and rehab centres, the law would reportedly introduce fines of up to $27m, life imprisonment and the death penalty as sentences for those convicted of terrorism, as well as giving the cabinet the ability to designate organisations as terrorist groups.
Team management is also made is via a shared calendar and feed and the ability to designate assistant coaches/trainers.
The council has the ability to designate funds as systemically important, a label that would subject them to even tougher rules.
Another directive is a health care proxy, which allows patients to designate someone to be their decision-maker if they lose the ability to make choices.
Einstein's point seems to be that while one can always choose to designate selected elements as a priori and, hence, non-empirical, no principle determines which elements can be so designated, and our ability thus to designate them derives from the fact that it is only the totality of the elements that possesses empirical content.
Note the balls used to designate sports.
Our ability to achieve the designated sample size completing the study was affected by several factors.
Facebook reportedly told advertisers that during the beta all ads shown during Live broadcasts will be taken from other promoted video campaigns already running on Facebook, but it's safe to assume if the test is successful advertisers may soon have the ability to create custom ads designated to be shown during Live broadcasts.
