The phrase "able citizens" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to citizens who are capable, competent, or fit to participate in civic duties or responsibilities.
Example: "The government encourages the involvement of able citizens in community service projects to foster a sense of responsibility."
Alternatives: "capable citizens" or "competent citizens".
Sierra Leone was devastated by a decade-long civil war that ended in 2002 and many of its most able citizens still live abroad.
As long as the (official) end is to forge future able citizens of all children, immigrants, and natives, there is no contradiction between mandatory civic integration and multiculturalism.
Anywhere there is a group of committed and able citizens I believe they can have a real impact on city elections.
This would create space for those who, by choice or fate, do not belong to the Global Village, yet are perfectly able citizens craving for a role at a local level.
Nor does it help the problems of road safety - we know that 50% of fatal accidents take place in cities - nor those relating to the production of consumers, less able citizens, whose mobility is dependent on public transport.
We have designed our economy such that it continues to leave millions of able-bodied citizens without jobs and without the means to be able to provide for their own needs and the needs of their families.
If so, what is needed is a law that encompasses all able-bodied citizens.
That would require assistance for those who are physically unable to work in later life but it would encourage able-bodied citizens to keep working.
"The safety net should never become a hammock, lulling able-bodied citizens into lives of complacency and dependency," Mr. Ryan's budget proposal says.
It should go without saying that poverty is not caused primarily by a too generous government safety net that becomes, in Ryan's words, "a hammock that lulls able-bodied citizens into lives of complacency and dependency".
In this dark comedy, government officials are vainglorious and corrupt and able-bodied citizens brutal and dishonest; the mausoleum, which exactly matches the dimensions of Mao Zedong's mausoleum in Tiananmen Square, is absurdly overblown.
