The phrase "ability to settle on" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the capacity to make a decision or reach a conclusion about something.
Example: "Her ability to settle on a final design was crucial for the project's success."
Alternatives: "capacity to decide on" or "skill in choosing".
For one, consumers' ability to settle on an "e-price" is an absolute necessity for auto dealers hoping to sell cars online.
Physiological and molecular investigations have provided evidence that endosymbionts supply their host's diet with limiting nutrients, thereby improving their invasive power and their ability to settle on nutritionally poor sources and habitats, such as blood (Glossina, Rhodnius), plant sap (aphids, psyllids, whiteflies, mealybugs), and cereal grains (Sitophilus) [ 2, 4].
To determine the effect of adsorption rate on phage's ability to settle on the cells embedded in top agar, 5 mL of TB medium containing ~5 × 103 marked LA-wt phages and ~5 × 103 marked HA-Stf or HA-J1077-1 phalonealone were placed on an LB agar plate with 100 μl overnight culture of E. coli XL1 Blue cells embedded in 3 mL molten H-top agar mixed with IPTG and X-gal (see above).
In a culture that places a lot of importance on the ability to settle arguments through fair, one-on-one fights and on physical toughness it's difficult to accept that you don't stand a chance against a herd of slobbering racists.
In a culture that places a lot of importance on the ability to settle arguments through fair, one-on-one fights – and on physical toughness – it's difficult to accept that you don't stand a chance against a herd of slobbering racists.
While this does not prevent people from migrating to other jurisdictions for temporary work, it places severe limits on their ability to settle permanently in any location other than the one corresponding to their birth hukou.
Your ability to settle in may depend heavily on how comfortable you feel in your new environment and culture.
To settle on the combination of parameters, which represent our model's ability to accurately distinguish the surrounding sequence of polyA sites from other genomic loci, we applied model selection.
