The phrase "ability to devote" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing someone's capacity or willingness to dedicate time, effort, or resources to a particular task or cause.
Example: "Her ability to devote time to volunteer work has made a significant impact on the community."
Alternatives: "capacity to dedicate" or "willingness to commit".
Reckitt's statement from December was frank on why Cousins would leave at the next annual meeting: "Richard is assuming an increasingly day-to-day operational role as CEO of Compass Group, which he has concluded will impact on his ability to devote sufficient time to his role as a non-executive director of Reckitt Benckiser".
"This time we must ensure that the process is open, transparent, robust and vigorous, so that the nominee is able to assure all the stakeholders of their knowledge of the subject matter, their ability to devote sufficient time to it and their fitness for the job".
Yom credits his success to a number of things: a math department that lays out clear expectations from ninth grade on about what students need to know to get to A.P. calculus, a mentor who has taught A.P. calculus at Lincoln High for 16 years and his own ability to devote countless hours to his students.
Large companies indicate that they have the ability to devote proportionally more resources to these components.
This may at times adversely affect his ability to devote time, attention, and effort to Square.
"This may at times adversely affect his ability to devote time, attention, and effort to Square," the filing notes.
The highly selective schools (like Wesleyan where I work), which remain "need blind" (accepting students regardless of their ability to pay) devote a considerable part of our operating budgets to financial aid.
Also, a man's ability to completely devote himself to his religious obligations relied on the fact that women were exempt and could take care of the more "mundane" tasks.
Without the Regulation Room support, there is a participation literacy barrier: many members of the public don't have the ability or inclination to devote a significant amount of time reading through lengthy proposed regulations, even if the proposal has a direct impact.
Even if that plan never came to fruition (no evidence of this longer version has as yet turned up), it indicates his conviction that important topics ought to be discussed in all three formats, which presumably take into consideration the varying abilities of people to devote time to study.
It also involves the ability for the partner to devote bandwidth and time to a new deal.
