The phrase "ability to govern a" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing someone's capacity or skill to manage or lead a particular entity, organization, or group.
Example: "The candidate's ability to govern a diverse population is crucial for the success of the administration."
Alternatives: "capacity to lead a" or "skill to manage a".
It does not matter in judging someone's ability to govern a nation.MarioGarcia-LaraGuatemala citySIR A lie is only as important as the question being asked.
But with the exception of four years in the lower house of Congress, Mr. da Silva has never held elective office, leading opponents to question his ability to govern a complex, continental-size nation of 175 million people.
The same view was expressed across the country, highlighting how even Labour's own voters lacked confidence in the party's ability to govern – a graphic reminder of the huge task facing Labour if it is to regain power.
But his father, Jon Will says, admired Daley's ability to govern a city as rough and ethnically diverse as Chicago.
They illustrate the achievements and limitations of a campaign by the Palestinian leadership to tame the West Bank's most unruly city, the first testing ground of its ability to govern a would-be independent state.
At the time, Mormons in the West were living through a period known as the "Raid," a quasi-invasion by federal authorities that had the effect both of quashing polygamy in the Utah territory and of breaking the church's ability to govern a society outside the stream of American life.
He did not describe to voters how the Republican party has tried to stymie his ability to govern with a policy of systematic obstruction.
It was the one area where he showed a Clinton-style proclivity to discuss the details of programs, and the best example of his ability to govern in a bipartisan way… Writer interviews Sandy Kress… During the Presidential campaign, Al Gore usually spoke about education in a strained, careful voice, obviously trying to find a way to support standards without alienating his constituency.
It validated his ability to govern with an ambiguous mandate.
"This is a government that has lost legitimacy, credibility and the ability to govern," said Monica de Bolle, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, a research group in Washington.
That is subject to debate, but there seems little doubt that the election has already left the party with a reduced ability to govern and with a handful of prime ministerial candidates who represent precisely the old school of politics that the voters decisively rejected on Sunday.
