The phrase "ability to refuse" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing someone's capacity or right to decline an offer, request, or demand.
Example: "Every individual has the ability to refuse any request that makes them uncomfortable."
Alternatives: "capacity to decline" or "right to say no".
SE commonly understood in terms of a refusal SE, that is, one's ability to refuse to drink in a tempting situation [ 34] plays a role when predicting the use of alcohol [ 10], tobacco [ 35], and marijuana [ 36].
* The ability to refuse treatment of any kind.
One item, the ability to refuse drug offers, favored youth in the conventional intervention arm over those in the computer or control arms.
These included positive and negative expectancies about alcohol effects, perceived peer and parent alcohol norms, perceived prevalence of adolescent alcohol use, and confidence in ability to refuse alcohol.
But, as Professor Wolff explained, states have long had the ability to refuse to recognize marriages from other states that violated their local policies.
It's not lost on Ms. Koehler that her ability to refuse to be intimidated is the result of her profession and privilege as a white, affluent mom.
Instead, we send our young people off to college, expecting them to be sexually confident in their abilities to refuse sexual advances or to be turned down; to manage sexual, romantic relationships, amongst life's other demands and enticements, with seasoned mastery; and to be sexually savvy, particularly when it comes to issues of health and safety.
The Continent's largest operators — Vodafone, Deutsche Telekom, France Télécom, Telefónica and Telecom Italia — have lobbied unsuccessfully for legislation that will give them guaranteed investment returns on new fiber networks they build, or the ability to simply refuse to lease access to competitors.
In addition to providing coverage to more people -- by eliminating the ability of insurers to refuse to offer coverage to people who have pre-existing conditions -- the law "is also going to provide vast improvement to people who are already purchasing coverage on their own," Ms. Collins said.
Instead he proposed that because "the American people are the ones who choose their government by their own free will," and because they "have the ability and choice to refuse the policies of their government," attacks on American civilians were justified.
In addition, recent academic research has revealed the methodological fallacies in the so-called "empirical evidence" used by the academics who have argued that unrestrained attacks by activist hedge funds create long-term value for the targets of their attacks, thereby strengthening the ability of these institutions to refuse to support activist attacks on portfolio companies.
