The phrase "able to exercise the" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing someone's capacity or capability to perform a specific action or function.
Example: "The committee is able to exercise the authority granted to them by the board."
Alternatives: "capable of exercising the" or "qualified to exercise the".
Today's unhappy workers may one day be able to exercise the ultimate revenge, by taking their services elsewhere.
But if there is a lockout in 2011, the Patriots will be able to exercise the pick in the draft, which will still be held.
Dynegy claimed in its suit that it should have been able to exercise the option for $23 million after it pulled out of the planned merger.
It would also issue performance-based options, where employees would be able to exercise the options only if their unit met certain performance goals, he said.
Yet another possible course Mr. Cheney could take would be to agree to donate the net profits to a charity after he was able to exercise the options.
The family member or partnership would be able to exercise the options, and the executive could then delay paying taxes on them until the loan was repaid.
The extent to which participants were able to exercise agency (the ability to act autonomously) was, to a large extent, dependent on the affordances (properties that make action possible) of the social environments in which they learned.
As the dispute around St Paul's intensified, Paternoster Square revealed just how much power the owners of private estates are able to exercise over the public.
Chervenak and McCullough may overestimate the authority that medical professionals are generally able to exercise over the meaning and use of technology.
"The thing I hated most about being injured was not being able to exercise," says the senior sibling.
You want your cat to be able to exercise on the tree.
