The phrase "ability to make contributions" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing someone's capacity or potential to provide value or input in a particular context, such as a workplace or community setting.
Example: "Her ability to make contributions to the team has been invaluable in achieving our project goals."
Alternatives: "capacity to add value" or "potential to contribute".
But the regulations did not specifically prohibit wealthier parents from giving gifts to their minor children to open their own accounts, and the I.R.S. does repeatedly point to beneficiaries' ability to make contributions on their own behalf.
Justice Kennedy filed a concurring opinion to say that not only Proposition 198 but also federal campaign law, as interpreted and upheld by the court, were undermining political parties' First Amendment rights by limiting the parties' ability to make contributions directly to their candidates and inducing the parties to turn to soft money and issue advocacy.
Alexander Betts says in his insightful TED Talk, "They're human beings with skills, talents, aspirations, with the ability to make contributions -- if we let them".
The House committee also today asked the State Department to report on whether Mr. Rich remained a United States citizen since his citizenship status could have a bearing on his ability to make political contributions.
There is something supremely cynical about the notion among Republican conservatives that they could use their ability to make unlimited contributions to "super PACs" and shadowy social-welfare groups to buy an election.
"I told him that I think, in the end, this incident will be a footnote to a great life lived greatly, and that he still has the ability to make enormous contributions," said Alan M. Dershowitz, the Harvard law professor, who once counted Mr. Spitzer as a student and now counts him as a friend.
A major challenge in developing effective employment interventions for people with disabilities is SSA's requirement that disability support applicants and beneficiaries have conditions that prohibit their ability to make meaningful contributions to their own support through work.
"One group might be the self-employed with very lumpy earnings from one year to the next, whose ability to make pension contributions fluctuates a lot from year to year," he says.
Those payments will chip away at your cash-flow, hurting your ability to make retirement contributions.
That's the universe of people who will gain a greater ability to make campaign contributions as a result of that decision, to the detriment of the rest of the nation's citizens.
His decisions on easing campaign finance rules, including Citizens United, which gave corporations and unions the ability to make unlimited contributions to political causes, firmly established Roberts' record as a conservative.
