The phrase "ability to take steps" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing someone's capacity or capability to initiate actions or make progress towards a goal.
Example: "Her ability to take steps towards improving her health has inspired many in the community."
Alternatives: "capacity to act" or "capability to initiate actions".
Doctors are testing whether implanting electrical stimulators below the injury can restore people's ability to take steps.
Far from "encouraging" disabled people off sickness benefits, cutting £30 a week from the ESA (Wrag) benefit will reduce their ability to take steps into work.
Even among Palestinians, Sharon wins plaudits for his ability to take steps no other Israeli leader has taken, most notably the Gaza pullout.
If I noticed a lot of the postings I was attracted to looking for a certain skill like design abilities—I would have time to take steps to learn that.
Baby steps can become bigger steps that lead to the ability to take giant steps forward.
"Students who are raped by other students that kind of trauma can really impair your ability to learn and your ability to function in the school environment, so schools have to take steps to address that".
But we do not have the ability to take extraordinary steps to help individual clubs.
For him, it was no surprise that Russia had the boldness and the ability to take the steps it took.
But it should also worry about meltdown risk – about the danger that its own failure to act, by leading to a deep recession, will undermine political leaders' ability to take the steps needed to put their economies on a sound footing.
Foreign policy analysts in Washington said the Chinese have mastered the ability to take incremental steps that fall just short of provoking a major international incident — a process known as "salami-slicing," or taking territory piece by piece until everything is gone.
Our MT-bound model can account for dynein's distinguishing ability to take larger steps.
