The phrase "eligible to exercise" is grammatically correct and commonly used in written English.
It can be used to describe someone who meets the requirements to participate or engage in a certain activity or action. Example: "Only employees who have been with the company for at least one year are eligible to exercise their stock options."
And he called on citizens of every state to demand a voter registration system that is not cumbersome, allowing anyone eligible to exercise what Lyndon Johnson called "the basic right, without which all others are meaningless".
As Frederick Whelan puts it, "democracy requires that people be divided into peoples (each people hopefully enjoying its own democratic institutions), with each unit distinguishing between its own citizens understood in a political sense as those eligible to exercise democratic political rights here—and others, who are regarded as aliens here, although (hopefully) citizens somewhere else".
"He had an objectionable lifestyle and, as such, is not eligible to exercise the priestly ministry.
Similarly, allowing parents of citizens and permanent lawful residents to apply for deferred action will enable families to remain together in the United States for a longer period of time until they are eligible to exercise the option, already given to them by Congress, to seek to regularize the parents' status.
We invited potentially eligible patients referred to exercise testing from GPs from February 2010 until the end of February 2012 to participate in the current investigation.
There were procedural disparities, but about half of Malians eligible to vote exercised their right — the highest number on record.
Speaking to the crowd gathered on the National Mall, Holder remarked: This morning, we affirm that this struggle must, and will, go on in the cause of our nation's quest for justice until every eligible American has the chance to exercise his or her right to vote, unencumbered by discriminatory or unneeded procedures, rules, or practices.
Speaking to the crowd gathered on the National Mall, Holder remarked: This morning, we affirm that this struggle must, and will, go on in the cause of our nation's quest for justice — until every eligible American has the chance to exercise his or her right to vote, unencumbered by discriminatory or unneeded procedures, rules, or practices.
Mr. Holder, receiving a roar of welcome from the crowd, said that King's struggle must continue "until every eligible American has the chance to exercise his or her right to vote unencumbered by discrimination or unneeded procedurals, rules or practices".
I urge my colleagues to help pass legislation to restore the Voting Rights Act and to make sure that each and every eligible American has the opportunity to exercise their constitutional right to vote.
A week ago I joined with my Congressional colleagues to call for restoring the legislation to ensure that each and every eligible American has the opportunity to exercise their constitutional right to vote.
