The phrase "ability to inflict harm" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing potential violence, aggression, or the capacity to cause damage, whether physically or emotionally.
Example: "The study examined the psychological factors that contribute to an individual's ability to inflict harm on others."
Alternatives: "capacity to cause injury" or "power to harm".
But their ability to inflict harm is mitigated by their lack of credibility.
The anti-Qatar quartet seems to have overestimated Qatari fears of isolation from the GCC and their own ability to inflict harm on their neighbor.
While terrorists affiliated with Bin Laden's network "still have the ability to inflict harm," the guidelines say, officials are to make the point that "Al Qaeda and its adherents have become increasingly irrelevant".
"The anti-Qatar quartet seems to have overestimated Qatari fears of isolation from the GCC and their own ability to inflict harm on their neighbor". A new Washington Post report this week added to the awkwardness facing the blockaders.
A government's ability to inflict harm on its people, whether by taking their lives, imprisoning them, or confiscating their property, was to be checked by due process.
Against this unfortunate reality, U.S. military leadership must seek to placate local populations and aggrieved interests that, quite predictably, retain a keen awareness of America's ability to inflict harm.
In most normal industrial action there is a trade-off between the ability of a union to inflict harm as a result of the dispute, and the extent to which their own members suffer from loss of pay.
The general idea of this paradigm is that the privacy risks should not increase for a respondent as a result of occurring in a statistical database; differential privacy ensures, in fact, that the ability of an adversary to inflict harm should be essentially the same, independently of whether any individual opts in to, or opts out of, the dataset.
At first blush one might think that the question is being asked by readers who are tired of the limited ability of the AK 47 to inflict harm on a lot of people in a short amount of time, that weapon being a favorite of those who do mass murders.
With this treaty, Pogge argues, developed countries have made themselves guilty of imposing a harmful regime on others, thus violating the negative duty not to inflict harm.
