"hold the ability" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to describe someone or something that possesses a capability. For example, "The new computer holds the ability to process information quickly."
Because the games still hold the ability to surprise.
Upon leaving school kids hold the ability to bombard and be bombarded with texts, instant messages, and social media.
So how to hold the ability to recover from attacks and maintain a continuous acceptable level of service in the design of MHWN is a crucial issue.
On the nightstand by my bed is another crystal which claims to hold the ability to rid me of stress.
There's an obvious reason, of course: Republicans hold the Congress and, by extension, hold the ability to check executive power in their hands.
miRNAs hold the ability to simultaneously target and regulate many cellular pathways, the most noticeable of which control developmental and oncogenic processes.
· The Queen holds the ability to fire the entire Australian government since she is technically the Head of State in Australia.
Through her research, we have learned that shared thoughts can attract objects, that the soul has measurable mass, and that humankind holds the ability to awaken its own primal wisdom and achieve godlike feats.
Knowing of Link's potential threat to his plans, Ganon stole a dark artifact from the Forest Temple that holds the ability to take the inner darkness of a person and bring it to life, in order to combat Link.
After such incredible loss, her senses have been awakened to the magnificent beauty among us and holds the ability to capture it within the words she so freely shares.
In coal mining, managers had long held the ability to vary wages based on local considerations, such as geological factors or hazard levels, and after the reform they continued to vary wages through manipulation of quotas or rates to protect workers' wages.
