The phrase "ability to respond and" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing someone's capacity to react or reply to a situation or stimulus, often in a professional or technical context.
Example: "The team's ability to respond and adapt to changing market conditions is crucial for our success."
Alternatives: "capacity to react and" or "skill to reply and".
"It's important that there is an ability to respond and react to some of this disclosure.
"The experience factor played a big role in our ability to respond and not get knocked to the mat".
The strategy set forth by the general is a departure from the last strategy document, written in 1997, which ordered the military to shape the strategic environment, maintain the ability to respond and prepare for future threats.
But judging by past teams this is what he has been trying to teach his United to do, to have several ways of playing within a game, the ability to respond and react.
If their ability to respond and protect our coastlines is diminished because of the Guard's repeated and uncustomary use as an expeditionary force, rather than a line of help and defense at home, then our adventures in Afghanistan and Iraq will have had greater costs than we could imagine.
Warner, in a report he has co-authored for the thinktank Reform, says dramatic action is needed as the NHS faces an expected £30bn-a-year gap by 2020 between the demand for healthcare and its ability to respond, and needs several new funding streams to remain viable.
Vulnerability is a measure of both the sensitivity of population to natural hazards and its ability to respond to and recover from the impacts of those hazards (Cutter 2006).
Indeed, the development in anomalocarids of awareness of their surroundings and the ability to respond quickly and appropriately (Cong et al.[2014]) — a story still being assembled — is not the least of the Cambrian's achievements.
"These cuts would deplete the service and impair its ability to respond quickly and effectively to serious incidents".
They offer the ability to respond fast and precisely to grid frequency deviations and may contribute to reducing the must-run capacity of fossil fueled power plants.
"Yet our ability to respond quickly and effectively is the result of preparation and investments that happen before events".
