The phrase "ability to root out" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing someone's skill or capacity to identify and eliminate problems, issues, or undesirable elements.
Example: "The manager demonstrated her ability to root out inefficiencies in the workflow, leading to significant improvements in productivity."
Alternatives: "capacity to eliminate" or "skill in identifying".
How does this affect the federal government's ability to root out bad actors?
But sceptics question his treatment of political opponents and his ability to root out graft and keep a fragile peace.
In cases conducted like this one, a government stands to lose its authority and so its ability to root out actual terrorists.
Hypothesis: Scientists have a superior ability to root out gender bias in their labs because they are trained to rigorously reject subjective criteria.
They say it is instead the culimination of an effort begun more than a decade ago to improve the Federal Government's ability to root out municipal corruption.
But several corruption cases and a federal lawsuit alleging racial bias in the department's stop-and-frisk policies have raised disturbing doubts about the management of the department and its ability to root out its own problems.
But they also point to lingering international doubts over our ability or willingness to root out extremism from our soil.
"He will have special people assigned to him by Commissioner Kerik so that it is not investigated by the I.A.B., so that it is investigated independent of I.A.B., and we can get a sense of if it is true," said the mayor, who has repeatedly professed faith in the ability of the Internal Affairs Bureau to root out police corruption.
Thus defeated by the high court in criminal trials, and with businesses restrained by Congress from using the intimidating device to screen employees, the "polygraph community," as the sweat-merchant lobby calls itself, made its last stand by claiming the ability of its testers to root out spies.
So I call on them to use their extraordinary technical abilities to do more to root out these disgusting images".
Written by a music therapist and researcher in psychology at New York University (she is also a jazz pianist and composer), the book focuses on the author's phrase "essential musical intelligence," a natural ability to use music and sound "to root out and transform painful emotional states" and to deal with pain from physical injury.
