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The phrase "ability to suspend" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing someone's capacity to temporarily halt or pause an action, thought, or judgment.
Example: "The teacher praised her students for their ability to suspend their disbelief during the performance."
Alternatives: "capacity to pause" or "skill to defer".
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I love that Erich Fromm thing about Shabbat being the ability to suspend time.
Even by its absurd standards it has tested to destruction our ability to suspend disbelief this week.
Its strongest sanction is the ability to suspend accountants who have committed violations from working for publicly traded companies.
I do wonder whether knowing too much about someone's personal life interrupts an audience's ability to suspend disbelief, to really invest in the characters.
And, for all the unavoidable dramatisations that compression introduces, it was fascinating, a test of your own ability to suspend prejudice and attend only to evidence.
"The ability to suspend delivery on the lightest delivery days, for example, could save dollars in both our delivery and our processing and distribution networks," Mr. Potter said.
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Even the right-leaning drama "24" had the temerity to cast not one but two black presidents — a decision that seemed to have no effect on viewers' abilities to suspend their disbelief.
He argues that Locke answers the II.xxi.25 question negatively, but then claims that, for Locke, the power to suspend is not an ability to avoid willing, but rather an ability to will not to perform some action under consideration.
The combination of real-time CGM with insulin pump therapy (sensor augmented insulin pump therapy) with the ability to temporarily suspend insulin delivery at preset glucose levels (threshold based pump suspension) has also shown to reduce the burden of hypoglycaemia.
Good-quality, clean effluents are produced in the presence of large ciliated protozoan communities because they graze voraciously on dispersed bacteria and because they have the ability to flocculate suspended particulate matter and bacteria.
In this study, a new design of static floating medium flocculator was examined for its ability to remove suspended solids, organics and phosphorus.
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