The phrase "ability to prevent it" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing someone's capacity or capability to stop or avert a particular situation or outcome.
Example: "The organization has the ability to prevent it from happening again by implementing stricter safety protocols."
Alternatives: "capacity to avert it" or "power to stop it".
We will not see an end to identity theft until those with the greatest ability to prevent it have an incentive to do so.
Oregon's "foreseeability standard" means that "if a harm is foreseeable and you have the ability to prevent it, you have a duty," Mr. McDougal said.
Large numbers of Iraqis — perhaps a silent majority — have had no desire to see a return to Baathist rule, but they have had little faith in the Americans' ability to prevent it and no way to protect themselves.
He returned to Vienna a month later, still worried about the "chaos in London and Paris" and his declining ability to prevent it.
Identification of further pathways (and hence modifier genes) with which p53 deficiency cooperates, combined with understanding mechanisms that regulate p53 activity, will greatly enhance our understanding of breast cancer biology and our ability to prevent it.
Ambitious because we are pushing the bounds of knowledge and technology in our quest for understanding the biological effects of environmental exposures on mechanisms of human disease, and a natural progression because of the enormous potential of this approach to change the way we view disease and our ability to prevent it.
While the judiciary has been hampered in its ability to prevent deportation, it has been able to place some onus on counsel to inform their clients of the consequences of pleading guilty to an aggravated felony.
The P8010 even has the ability to prevent theft as it automatically locks your notebook when sudden movement is detected.
In lobbying state lawmakers to make its latest vaccine mandatory, Merck has greatly exaggerated both the threat of a disease and the ability of a drug to prevent it.
Mr. Romney, a Republican, said he vetoed the bill because he believed that the pill's ability to prevent implantation meant that it was sometimes used as an abortion pill.
Other studies have found that selenium has no ability to prevent heart disease when it is combined with other antioxidant supplements, like vitamin E. But the news is not all bad for selenium.
