The phrase "ability to meet a" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing someone's capacity or capability to fulfill a requirement or expectation.
Example: "The candidate demonstrated the ability to meet a variety of challenges during the interview process."
Alternatives: "capacity to fulfill a" or "capability to satisfy a".
Councilman Kenneth K. Fisher said he shared the audience's skepticism about the agency's ability to meet a deadline.
A major media conglomerate announces quarterly results that include strong cash-flow growth while raising doubts about its ability to meet a crucial target for the full year.
Increasingly concerned about his ability to meet a co-op board's financial criteria, he dropped his budget to $225,000 or less.
The relevance of the recommendation is its ability to meet a user need in searching information on a particular topic.
Comparable sizing could either be based on power in MW or on storage capacity in MWh or on the ability to meet a given annual output of electricity stored and fed into the grid (MWh/a).
We felt like it would be the marriage of a great recipe that's been around forever with the ability to meet a need that hadn't been fulfilled in the food industry for a great tasting naturally gluten-free cookie.
The idea is that the army will fill a vacuum brought on by the hoped-for demilitarisation of militia groups.But not everyone is so sure about the army's ability to meet an increasing security challenge.
WASHINGTON, April 21 (AP) —A supplier of M‐16 rifles re mains far behind schedule two years after the army cited ability to meet an accelerated delivery timetable as justifica tion for paying the supplier premium prices for the rapid firing weapons.
The Obama administration has asked California to explain how furloughs for state workers are affecting the state's ability to meet an escalating demand for unemployment insurance benefits and services to millions of jobless people.
If changes in a particular procedure would not have a major negative impact on any single division's ability to meet an investigator's tissue request, then majority vote prevailed.
Consequently, the competitive advantage of the destinations essentially originates from the ability to meet such a need.
