The phrase "alleged ability" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing someone's claimed or supposed skill or capability, often in a context where that ability is being questioned or doubted.
Example: "The athlete's alleged ability to perform under pressure was scrutinized after the recent competition."
Alternatives: "claimed ability" or "purported ability".
This again is contrasted with Bill Clinton, whose alleged ability to "cross party lines" did not stop him from being impeached (or from being similarly targeted by the "right wing media machine").
It seemed like a pretty tame remark for so much disrespect, given all the recent uproar over the president's alleged ability to brainwash elementary school students.
They even use the word "concertacesión", a neologism coined in the Salinas era to describe his alleged ability to concede some power to the opposition while keeping everyone else mostly happy.
The defenders of torture either deny that it is what it is (hey, it's just "enhanced interrogation") or argue that its alleged ability to elicit otherwise unobtainable intelligence justifies its moral and political costs.
Frankincense, coveted both for its alleged ability to regenerate cells and for its Biblical prominence, is derived from the resin of trees that grow only in the Horn of Africa and the Middle East.
Please help save the bears from this cruel eviction Save our sanctuary ― Stop the eviction animalsasia.org/index.php UID=…Please RTThank you — Ricky Gervais (@rickygervais) October 15, 2012 Bear bile has long been used in traditional Chinese medicine for its alleged ability to relieve ailments ranging from muscle aches and hangovers to impotence and liver disease.
As a result of the aberrations, two law firms last week opened class action lawsuits on behalf of investors, alleging Ability had violated the Securities Exchange Act by overstating its income and had weak internal controls for its financial reporting.
Together they devised a series of experiments to assess the snails' alleged homing ability.
St Drogo the Bilocator, it is alleged, had the ability to appear in two places at once, but he never used it to foil a bank robbery.
"While plaintiffs have offered some evidence that the online personal information at issue has some modicum of identifiable value to an individual plaintiff," explained Judge Sue Robinson [PDF], "plaintiffs have not sufficiently alleged that the ability to monetize their PII has been diminished or lost by virtue of Google's previous collection of it".
"While plaintiffs have offered some evidence that the online personal information at issue has some modicum of identifiable value to an individual plaintiff," declared Judge Robinson [PDF], "plaintiffs have not sufficiently alleged that the ability to monetize their PII has been diminished or lost by virtue of Google's previous collection of it".
