"leverage the ability" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when you want to discuss taking advantage of something that someone has the capability of doing. For example, "We must leverage his ability to speak multiple languages to further our competitive advantage in global markets."
Begin with the fact that the stagehands have actual leverage — the ability to shut down moneymaking entertainment that occurs at a specific time and place.
And because trainees cannot easily switch jobs — their visas tie them to a single company — they lack what should be major leverage: the ability to walk out on a bad employer.
Drawing on case studies, practitioner interviews, and the author's UN experience, this presentation will examine five variables that are critical to success: timing, access, leverage, the ability to propose solutions for non-violent change, and finding the right mix of principle and pragmatism.
The GMR sensor ANN has a heavy reliance on filtering and feature extraction prior to input to the neural network, thus the method does not leverage the ability of deep neural networks to extract relevant features, and makes it difficult to retrain the network on other sensor geometries or material types.
We want to leverage the ability and talent of every individual in this army.
The largest creditor to the U.S. would appear to have plenty of leverage, the ability to wreak havoc if it doesn't get its way.
The Perioperative Surgical Home is not intended to replace the surgeon's patient care responsibility, but rather leverage the abilities of the entire perioperative care team in the service of the patient.
The method leverages the ability of the polymer film to align nematic liquid crystals on its surface, when that surface has been prepared by mechanical brushing.
One leverages the ability of an iPhone or Android phone to wirelessly deliver all Web-based information to the car, including turn-by-turn directions, reviews from Yelp or local gas prices.
To experimentally confirm the calculations of clone size at treatment initiation, we developed an ultrasensitive approach that leverages the ability of droplet-digital amplification technology to evaluate single cells at high throughput.
Leveraging the ability of a Probody therapeutic to bind its target at the site of disease after proteolytic cleavage, we developed a novel method for profiling protease activity in living animals.
