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The phrase "ability to prevent that" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing someone's capacity or capability to stop or avert a specific situation or outcome.
Example: "The organization has the ability to prevent that kind of data breach from occurring in the future."
Alternatives: "capacity to avert that" or "power to stop that".
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Three months later, it appears that Swarbrick and Notre Dame have the ability to prevent that potential seismic shift.
He said he alone had the ability to prevent that.
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The full Senate must now vote on her confirmation and Republicans have the ability to filibuster to prevent that vote.
YouTube's Advance Search options also include the ability to prevent videos that have been tagged as explicit by the screeners, like news film of a suicide bombing, for example, from showing up in your child's search results in the first place.
Therefore, it was observed that a temperature increase led to a significant improvement of the antimicrobial properties, the materials resulted after thermal treatment at 600 °C and 1000 °C being thus more adequate for being used in orthopaedic and dental applications, due to their superior ability to prevent infections that may occur in vivo.
"We want to prevent that".
It's my job to prevent that".
Meanwhile, the Guardian's undercover footage shows Griffin questioning HMRC's ability to prevent the schemes: "That [HMRC notice is] from June 2015 and the company they investigated doubled their size since then.
All of this left Baker, van Deursen, and their colleagues thinking that BuBR1's life-extending effects aren't due to only its ability to prevent cancer, although that's not yet certain.
Both believe the study might have had a better shot at success if it had examined DHA's ability to prevent Alzheimer's but that requires an enormous investment of time and money.
"If you undermine the compact, you potentially lose the ability to prevent things like that from happening".
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

Justyna Jupowicz-Kozak
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