The phrase "ability to overthrow the" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing power dynamics, political situations, or any scenario where one entity has the potential to remove or replace another.
Example: "The revolutionaries believed in their ability to overthrow the oppressive regime that had ruled for decades."
Alternatives: "capacity to topple the" or "power to dismantle the".
In Afghanistan, we narrowed-in on a challenging, but attainable goal: to deny al Qaeda safe haven and the Afghan-Taliban the ability to overthrow the duly elected Afghan government.
A strategy with three main objectives – to deny al-Qaida a safe haven, to deny the Taliban the ability to overthrow the Afghan government and to develop the Afghan security forces to a point where they can assume responsibility for their country.
We must reverse the Taliban's momentum and deny it the ability to overthrow the government.
Frustrated by the lengthening stalemate, though, Islamic groups are becoming more radicalized, more willing to work together--and more convinced of their ability to overthrow the government.
Not surprisingly, the Lannister-Small Coverestimatesoverestitstes its ability to overthrow anything effectively — even the High Sparrow, a fuzzy-haired old zealot named after a bird.
That is clearly the case if you consider the ambitious goals that Obama has set for U.S. strategy: reversing the Taliban's momentum and denying it the ability to overthrow Afghanistan's government while strengthening Afghanistan's security forces and government.
He has met with Iraqi opposition figures (even though he is said to have little confidence in their ability to overthrow Mr. Hussein) and has pressed to have Mr. Hussein named an international war criminal.
It may have been in this context that Norton ruefully admitted the power of a "trivial" biochemical experiment to overthrow the most elegant genetic deduction.
No overt acts designed to overthrow the Government were charged; no attempt to overthrow was charged.
