The phrase "ability to prompt" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing someone's capacity to encourage or initiate a response or action in others.
Example: "Her ability to prompt thoughtful discussions among her peers is truly impressive."
Alternatives: "capacity to encourage" or "skill in initiating".
Much of this is down to this record's remarkable ability to prompt an overwhelming emotional response – the album's producer, Lewis Merenstein, has described how, upon hearing the title track, he began crying.
But it still remains to be seen how long people will keep reading after being drawn to the magazine by Ms. Winfrey's enormous name recognition and her ability to prompt an almost Pavlovian response in consumers.
In this case, "good" creative isn't a subjective judgment, but an objective one based on the message's ability to prompt a direct response from consumers.
Bb9's merits lie in its ability to prompt critical reflection as a response to its grotesque depiction of the post-contemporary.
Once again, the Internet has shown its ability to prompt arrogantly stupid people to broadcast their idiocy for the entire world to see.
These clones were examined for genetic rearrangements, cancer stem cell (CSC) status, and ability to prompt aggressive disease with systemic metastasis.
Briefly, there were reminders of the ability that used to prompt comparisons with Didier Drogba.
Harnessing the ability of dendritic cells to prompt an immune response against antigenic proteins has been of particular value in the treatment of cancer.
A fourth experiment evaluated creative output by measuring people's abilities to generate complex analogies to prompt phrases.
One device, a complex coordinator, measures the learner's ability to make prompt, synchronized adjustments of handstick and foot-bar controls in response to combinations of stimulus lights.
The effectiveness of this method is the low rate of recurrences during the short period of treatment (4 6 months); simultaneous elimination of limb shortening and deformities; in the presence of pathological fracture, the ability to initiate prompt treatment without waiting for the fracture to heal; and return to normal activity in a shorter period.
