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The phrase "able to act in" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing someone's capability or capacity to perform a specific action or role in a particular context.
Example: "She is able to act in a leadership capacity during the project."
Alternatives: "capable of functioning in" or "qualified to perform in".
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But Mr Draghi was able to act in part because Mr Monti had restored Italy's credibility.
Today engineers are required to be socially, culturally and communicatively skilled and able to act in constantly changing sociocultural environment.
They are also able to act in this environment by using high-level actions, which are described by the ontology of the environment.
Haaretz's Aluf Benn argued that Israel would not be able to act in such a way again after this report, a comment quite widely echoed.
I'm so pleased that I seem to be able to act in films, not waving and shouting too much, just to be heard in the gods".
Washington wants to signal North Korea that even as the United States mobilizes forces for imminent war with Iraq, it is still able to act in Northeast Asia.
On the political side, it's now important to form a government able to act in order to prevent potential strain on the mood from a cliffhanger.
This summer the way that each central bank operates in normal times determined how it was able to act in the crisis.
The culprit may well have been the very same information that makes supply chains more efficient: firms are able to act in closer alignment.
"We will now be able to act in a preventative manner to avoid these incidents," the interior minister, Nicolas Sarkozy, said.
"He was able to act in the way he did because the Nazis needed our factory for their military production," Günther Leitz said.
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