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The phrase "ability to get anything" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing someone's capacity or skill to obtain or achieve various things, often in a broad or exaggerated sense.
Example: "Her ability to get anything she wants has always amazed her friends."
Alternatives: "capability to acquire anything" or "skill to obtain anything".
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"Once you start hating, you lose the ability to get anything done," he said.
The recent implosion of some of Governor McGreevey's biggest initiatives led to rampant sneering that the governor lacked the ability to get anything done.
There is always something puzzling about the extreme distrust that Republicans of this strain profess to have in the government's ability to get anything right involving money and their headlong grant of the power to detain, torture, and kill.
That the Senate bill's sponsors, four Republicans and four Democrats, have stuck together and gotten it this far is evidence that Washington's ability to get anything done through bipartisanship and compromise is not entirely dead.
It was a decision that forced Morsi to govern without his parliamentary power base – a situation he felt the deep state had engineered to undermine his ability to get anything done.
Here's the problem for the citizenry: Turnover in congressional staff cuts off institutional memory and forces skilled staffers to train their new colleagues thereby cutting back Congress's ability to get anything useful done.
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With the rapid adoption of e-commerce and the proliferation of smartphone devices (a whopping 64% of Americans own one, according to the Pew Research Center), the consumer now has an ability and expectation to get anything, anytime, anywhere.
What confidence can the public have, when contemplating chaos on the railways, underfunding of the NHS, the Windrush scandal, Grenfell and the failure to oversee public sector contractors such as Carillion, in the ability of May's government to get anything right?
John Doyle, director of markets at Tempus Consulting, says: "This calls into question the ability of the Trump administration to get anything done in terms of tax and infrastructure reforms.
To get anything done they must compromise.
Remember not to get anything too distracting.
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