The phrase "able to inculcate" is correct and usable in written English.
It is usually used to describe someone as having the ability (or aptitude) to effectively teach or pass on ideas and beliefs. For example: "The coach was able to inculcate the principles of team play in her players."
Since it is one of those aggressively catchy anthems able to inculcate an allergic reaction to show tunes, who wouldn't be grateful to hear the song given a fresh spin?
Beyond those rules, the Pakistani Army and government have not been able to inculcate the lashkars with the needed confidence, said Khalid Aziz, a former chief secretary of the North-West Frontier Province.
If the only role models they have are heroes through fame, wealth, or celebrity, they aren't going to be able to inculcate within themselves the values and the sort of role models to give them the inner strength they need now," she warns.
Yet I could have hoped that the Muslim movement had been able to inculcate in the demoralized Negro population a truer and more individual sense of its own worth, so that Negroes in the Northern ghettos could begin, in concrete terms, and at whatever price, to change their situation.
Based on the NPE, Malaysian science teachers are not only able to inculcate an understanding of science content, science process skills and positive attitudes towards science, but also able to inculcate ethics, moral values, and foster unity among students of various ethnic groups.
Like the plants men and women grew and the animals they husbanded, the mushroom was able to inculcate itself into the human family, so that where human genes went these other genes would be carried.
The point of the exercise for adult Muslims, who are healthy and able, is to develop a regimen of self-restraint and to inculcate a capacity to, borrowing a term from Plato, control one's appetites.
Others try to inculcate street smarts.
Crisis was the social norm it sought to inculcate".
"We are trying to inculcate a culture of tax-paying.
Montaigne above all does not seek to inculcate principle.
