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The phrase "ability to prevent a" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing someone's or something's capacity to stop or hinder a specific action or event.
Example: "The new policy enhances the ability to prevent a data breach in our systems."
Alternatives: "capacity to avert a" or "power to stop a".
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Before this provision, customers had little ability to prevent a carter from automatically renewing a hauling contract, often at higher rates, county officials and small carters say.
Surely, if we have the ability to prevent a life-threatening illness from harming a child, we should give that child the protection.
Now, with the economy seizing up, the Saudis seem to have become much more concerned with the drop in prices, and their ability to prevent a complete collapse.
With Mr Obama in the White House, Republicans are much more sceptical than Democrats about the government's ability to prevent a big Ebola outbreak, Pew found.
According to a recent poll, more than three quarters of the electorate have little or no trust in Merkel's ability to prevent a new, all-out financial and economic crisis.
Mr. Obama directed his aides to monitor the spread of Ebola in the United States "in a much more aggressive way," but said Americans should remain confident of the government's ability to prevent a widespread outbreak.
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The Coalition's leader in the Senate, George Brandis, earlier defended the government's election campaign amid questions over Turnbull's ability to prevent an internal Liberal party split over lingering resentment among conservatives over Tony Abbott's dumping.
Notably, when we led subjects to believe that Israel faced a near-term existential threat (specifically, that the Israel Defense Forces did not have the ability to prevent an Iranian nuclear attack), they became less inclined to support negotiations with Hamas.
Every act of wrongdoing undercuts our ability to prevent an infection, or to get someone healthier and more able to contribute to their community.
Now, a low-income woman's ability to prevent an unplanned pregnancy can be held hostage by her very own boss.
Do we really believe that denying women the ability to prevent an unwanted pregnancy will make our country or the world a better place?
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