The phrase "an ability to construct" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing someone's skill or capability in creating or building something, whether it's physical objects, ideas, or arguments.
Example: "Her training provided her with an ability to construct compelling narratives that engage the audience."
Alternatives: "a skill in building" or "a talent for creating".
Above all, it is no proof of an ability to construct broad voter coalitions.
Along the way, we are reminded of what writers and detectives often have in common: a dogged, sometimes inconvenient obsession with the truth; a psychological acuity that lets them take quick, reliable soundings of character; an ability to construct variant narratives and then decide which one seems most likely.
The extension of the GENIUS framework provides an ability to construct multiple-story high-rise buildings and place stairs (fire escape) and elevators at any location of the floor.
The second paper by Horiguchi, Tomoto, and Hirashima, A Framework of Generating Explanation for Conceptual Understanding Based on Semantics of Constraints, proposed a framework for indexing problems to systematically generate explanation to promote acquisition of an ability to construct models of target systems (conceptual understanding) behind the problems in the domain of physics.
Without an ability to construct mutants, it is hard to carry out any reverse genetic approach to test the importance of any selected biological process.
An ability to construct long musical paragraphs is, according to the Delius scholar Christopher Palmer, Delius's lasting debt to Wagner, from whom he also acquired a knowledge of chromatic harmonic technique, "an endlessly proliferating sensuousness of sound".
Whether you're building a case for a budget increase or trying to sell someone a widget, the ability to construct persuasive arguments is important.
Part of the reason for not exceling as thought leaders is a lack of ability to construct meaningful content.
Also, the candidates at a higher level displayed the ability to construct a sentence with more complex sentence patterns.
"Never Mind the Pollacks" is a blown opportunity, a smart premise that its author sabotages with an avalanche of potty humor and a seeming lack of faith in his ability to construct an actual novel.
Additionally, a potentially important extension available within an integrated approach is the ability to construct blocks that optimally capture association signal, a feature which is not presently implemented in our approach.
