The phrase "ability to direct the" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing someone's capacity or skill to lead or manage a particular process, project, or group.
Example: "Her ability to direct the team effectively led to the successful completion of the project ahead of schedule."
Alternatives: "capacity to lead the" or "skill to manage the".
The President's rough ideas about his ability to direct the investigative process might lead him in reckless directions.
He has the ability to handle it mentally along with his ability to direct the offense and to learn and orchestrate new plays.
Critics of auctions argue that they compromise a lead plaintiff's ability to direct the course of litigation, because the court assumes responsibility for choosing lawyers.
"Our ability to direct the parties is just an illusion," said Andrew S. Natsios, a special envoy to Sudan during the Bush administration who teaches at Georgetown University.
And what about her reputed clairvoyance, accounts that her touch raised a child from the dead, her ability to direct the wind to fill her stalled boats' sails?
According to Jonides, this is how self-control "cashes out" in the real world: as an ability to direct the spotlight of attention so that our decisions aren't determined by the wrong thoughts.
The similar ${\overline {{\rm{EM}}} }$ values of T6 and T6* probably accounts for their remarkably similar abilities to direct the synthesis of c- P6.
The value of this is the ability to direct fieldwork at the area where the variability is occurring, specifically to seek for operator judgement activities.
That gives it the ability to direct beams of the light in specific places, making the material useful for microscopes and novel projection systems.
To finally define the minimum region that has the ability to direct EYFP to the nucleus, plasmids encoding EYFP fused to aa 41 60 and aa 47 54 were constructed (Fig. 2a) and tested in COS-7 cells.
"Power is the ability to direct or prevent the current or future actions of other groups and individuals".
