The phrase "are capable of exercising" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone's ability or potential to perform a specific action or task.
Example: "The athletes are capable of exercising at a high level of intensity during competitions."
Alternatives: "have the ability to perform" or "are able to execute".
On television, lawyers are capable of exercising moral judgment and have a private conscience.
The news that tadpoles are capable of exercising choice will add a new dimension to the philosophical debate over free will.
I take Bennett's point to be that inspirational teachers are often flawed human beings and that boys of that age are capable of exercising responsibility: indeed he once said in an interview: "Hector is the child, not them".
Such beliefs rest on an ugly assumption: that only "the best and the brightest" are capable of exercising their own agency, while the rest of us can be written off according to age, race, income, and place of residence.
As war novels go, The Yellow Birds is a triumph, mining the conflict in Iraq to investigate universal questions of the extent to which we are in control of our lives; the degree to which we are capable of exercising free will.
The failure to assess capacity can be problematic, because incorrect judgments that potential vulnerable subjects are capable of exercising autonomy might involve them in research involuntarily.
We concluded that, despite their positions inside the Nebraska prison and Georgia hospital, these medical professionals were capable of exercising the independence of professional judgment required by due process.
That is, we must resist a top-down approach in response to challenges afflicting our generation; every one of us is capable of exercising change by committing ourselves to small acts, even if most will go unnoticed.
Their presence thus calls for the setting of new instruments as they make it unlikely that consumers be capable of exercising control over their energy consumption in reaction to given incentives.
"Of this I am certain," Burke declared, "that in a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority". In the aftermath of the French Revolution, his fears were widely shared by conservatives and self-described "liberals".
And yet, as a junior doctor trying to make her mark in a predominantly male sphere, she finds herself pressured to overcompensate, to prove beyond doubt that she is capable of exercising the detached judgment of a clinician whose primary focus is cure, not compassion.
