Such a claim is bereft of imagination, competence and, dare I say, common sense. |
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It states that everyone gets promoted one rank beyond their level of competence. |
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Children's perceptions of their academic competence were also compared with their actual grades. |
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Arguments about ceremonial precedence, like those affecting professional competence, were about power. |
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Points will be deducted for whooping, cheering, successful tackling, goal scoring or any other overt displays of competence. |
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We'll help a rising generation gain the skills and the competence necessary to achieve the American dream. |
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The group was given the right to take action in areas falling within its field of competence. |
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Kim also notes that analyzing one's own culture is essential to intercultural competence. |
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Throughout the company, Ford plans to regain engineering competence by redeploying some engineers internally and by hiring new ones. |
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Imbalances in knowledge between lay people and professionals make it difficult for lay people to assess doctors' ability and competence. |
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A long test drive in Italy confirmed the new model's all-round competence both on autostrada and twisty country roads. |
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The balance of power has shifted from availability and accessibility to competence and control. |
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The purpose of a residency is to attain professional competence in direct patient care and in practice management beyond entry level. |
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We're not going to have the Government use shoddy, tawdry little tricks to drum up the notion of fear and then fail on competence. |
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For self-perceived scholastic competence, however, students' self-ratings declined over the course of high school. |
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There has often been tension between conflicting ideas about the scope of EU competence and the policy-making process. |
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The brand personality is consistently hallmarked by individuality, innovation, competence and non-conformism. |
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Energized by necessity as well as by curiosity and competence in many mediums, the versatile artist was awesomely productive. |
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For those who pass the threshold of age and mental competence, the right to be self-determining in the major decisions in life is inviolate. |
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Perhaps we pride ourselves on our qualities of competence and helpfulness, or on being the child of very special parents. |
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A strategy of disengagement would require bold, risk-taking statecraft of a high order, and much diplomatic competence in its execution. |
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Given the extensive network of the Indian Railways, its competence to take the message to the nook and corner of the country is truly matchless. |
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Technically, both films reflect the customary unspectacular competence associated with Hallmark productions. |
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They're forced to prove their competence as detectives and their reliability and dedication to each other. |
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Rather, his competence would be questioned for allowing so much contentiousness to exist on his patch. |
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A salesperson cannot afford to make promises which the organization does not have the competence or capability to meet. |
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He suffers very serious physical disabilities but has retained his mental competence and capacity. |
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This process continues until the computer can determine your competence in all areas of the test plan. |
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He was an organizational technician of high competence with healthily modest notions of what a central party organization could achieve. |
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What about lab technicians who are rarely heard of but whose competence can be a matter of life or death? |
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Thus, the benefits of mass appeal and electioneering competence are minimized, and so are the penalties of unattractiveness and incompetence. |
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Tactically, the army in the field is continuing its remarkable demonstration of professional competence. |
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The front-of-house man may have been underworked, but he oozed bonhomie and competence without ever threatening to become over-attentive. |
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Sean also demonstrated his competence in the long jump and pole vault, with a win in the former and third place in the latter. |
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It illustrates not only her great technical competence, but also her high level of organizational and managerial skill. |
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The competence of surgeons has already been questioned following a series of high-profile cases. |
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At Stage Five, the student has complete metalinguistic competence and is capable of learning independently. |
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As with any specialty practice area, gaining competence in renal dietetics takes time and effort. |
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I felt immediately that the role of honorary consul was one I could play with conviction and competence. |
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There has been no challenge to her credibility as a witness, or to her professional competence. |
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The notion is intended to replace his dichotomy of competence and performance. |
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Even faculty with competence in one or more foreign languages must shape their courses around this constraint. |
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For those endowed with qualities such as sincerity, perseverance and competence, success is never a mirage. |
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American political culture has a strong faith in the efficacy of markets and skepticism in the competence of government. |
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Opposing attorneys invariably will attempt to impeach the credibility or competence of an expert witness. |
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Risks may stem from design, manufacture, maintenance, storage, housekeeping, or a lack of user competence. |
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The competence of commercial airline pilots of US-based carriers is assessed using standardized simulators of the aircraft they fly. |
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Merlin smiled inwardly at the cleverness and competence of his young student. |
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Paranoid ideation and psychoticism were significantly correlated with low family competence for men but not for women. |
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It is still based upon favour with no relevance whatever to competence or effectiveness. |
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The value of disciplinary grouping is that, at least at its best, people with real and specific competence are in control. |
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Daunton argues that both public trust in and the administrative competence of the state both took a nosedive in the same period. |
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In the absence of an infallible and objective observer, judging competence from within a hierarchy is always likely to be a hit and miss affair. |
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Along with improved narrative competence, I observed more cooperation, sharing, and collaboration as the children dramatized the stories. |
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On the shop floor it more or less meant the proles getting their cards and hapless, toadying management promoted beyond their competence. |
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He also says that relying on cardiothoracic surgeons to do lung resections may mean that some do too few to maintain competence. |
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But for the majority of younger scientists, citation count is not a mark of competence. |
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She had many friends and related openly and well to me, implying skills in social competence. |
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Their demonstrated skills and competence are envied by other servicemembers. |
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One country can be a leader on one issue in which it has competence, initiative, resources and interest. |
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Emotional equanimity relates to the affective competence that involves self-regulation of emotions and feelings. |
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A further controversial point was the competence and skill available to the different types of audit organizations. |
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The learners must demonstrate competence in all technical skills by performing the tasks. |
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In our experience, the competence and skills of traditional birth attendants may vary widely across settings. |
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Some employees are enthusiastic about their supervisor's competence and skills. |
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Knowledge, awareness and sensitivity become important elements in developing the skills of cultural competence. |
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Although it took time for their concerns to be heard, they consistently voiced their concerns about the surgeon's competence and skill level. |
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Reports are also filed by specialized agencies with competence in relevant matters. |
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The legislation containing a ban will be on public health grounds, a policy area within the competence of the Scottish parliament. |
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A court's competence to grant an anti-suit injunction seems to derive from its jurisdiction to adjudicate. |
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But the courts have no competence to nullify, repeal or amend the legislation in question. |
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Privatisation of municipal enterprises falls within the competence of the municipal councils. |
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In my submission, the extraterritorial legislative competence does not depend on how another State has dealt with the subject matter. |
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However, whether a court with competence should actually vary a foreign trust raises a question governed by the applicable law of the trust. |
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Appeal to a Court whose competence is extra-European does not contribute to the progressive formation of European unity. |
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Recently, some of the first cases involving a breach by Member States in the sphere of the Community's external competence reached the Court. |
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Communicative competence is a theory of the nature of such knowledge and proficiency. |
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This shows that none of the genes absent from B. subtilis 6 is required for competence development. |
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Second, immune system competence is improved by removal of the large tumor mass. |
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Alterations in a normal response to inflammatory challenge may impact immune competence and overall animal performance. |
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In the bacteria Haemophilus influenza and Bacillus subtilis, starvation has been shown to increase competence for DNA uptake. |
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Circumstances that upset the balance of immunologic competence, such as stress, can impair the local inflammatory response. |
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The result, naturally, is that the competence of local intelligence has declined. |
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We conclude that sophisticated numerical competence can be present in the absence of a well-developed lexicon of number words. |
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But that presumes a level of right-mindedness and competence that I don't see in our government right now. |
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It is all about imperial arrogance unschooled in worldliness, unfettered either by competence or experience. |
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The next counter argument is linked to deep paranoia about the authorities' competence and good intentions. |
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At no stage have we shown, or sought to show, any competence, insight, initiative, wit, sobriety, sincerity or indeed any capability at all. |
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Both in disciplinary law and in civil law the presumption of competence must prevail. |
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It appears that the communicative competence is better displayed when children engage in pretense situations. |
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It takes a higher degree of competence, they say, to combine words properly in productive use. |
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Do they just focus on professional reputation and managerial competence, as measured by endorsements? |
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An experienced guerilla fighter with a professional competence in civil engineering could think of a good deal more. |
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Key objectives for our faculty are to obtain such recognition and ensure the highest professional standards of competence and ethical integrity. |
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Expertise and professional competence in anything comes from time doing the work, either professionally or as a hobby. |
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Today's informed consumers are demanding that the competence of licensed professionals be validated throughout their career. |
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English belongs to a totally different language family than Filipino, and competence in English is closely related to socioeconomic status. |
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Wood must be handled with care, selected with sparingness and used with competence. |
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It leads to confusion when credentials are mistaken for credibility, or competence for character. |
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Doctors will be regularly asked to demonstrate their competence, so that they are fit to practise throughout their lives. |
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Accordingly, it is not within the competence of the Rules Committee, to abrogate the common law. |
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Natural calamities were handled with competence, communal peace was ensured and law and order was maintained with a firm hand. |
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Their arguments are attractive because they are couched in mathematical or scientific terms and backed by what seems to be scientific competence. |
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We kickstart self-learners on the road to competence with freely available tools, training and courseware. |
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But the current crop of tests appears to be aimed only at evaluating minimum competence. |
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The expansion of medical practice into the regulation of behaviour carries doctors beyond their sphere of expertise and competence. |
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This all serves to demonstrate the preschoolers ' broad competence when they are screened for admission to the target school a year or two later. |
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Unsurprisingly, provinces can't legislate on matters of federal competence, nor can Parliament legislate on matters of provincial competence. |
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He's a good listener, open-minded, and completely unfazed by her supreme competence. |
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Perhaps society would be better off if its schools stuck to the three Rs and did a solid job in domains where they enjoy both competence and wide public support. |
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Increasing job seekers' competence in basic skills and unskilled labor may have positive results for transitioning welfare recipients into the workforce. |
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Is it possible to purchase audio tapes of Mr Brown telling meandering stories which contain subliminal messages that will boost my confidence and competence? |
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I refer, also, to the powers of general competence of local authorities. |
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It is hardly surprising that faculty members have taken to heart offensive comments about their professional competence, teaching skills, or personal lives. |
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Additional factors such as repetition, linguistic competence, cultural schemata, and transfer also contribute to the different levels of inexplicitness. |
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The Commission's role relates only to its legal powers and competence. |
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These findings confirmed the contention that when considering competence and self-esteem, single-parent children cannot be treated as a homogeneous group. |
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They could therefore rely more on an orotund voice when the circumstances required competence, confidence, and enthusiasm early in the interaction. |
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There is no doubt that the court, not the arbitral tribunal, has the competence to determine the court's own jurisdiction in respect of the action that is brought before it. |
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In generative dialectology, the investigator holds that the language exists within the speaker as a competence which is never fully realized in performance. |
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Catherine suffers in a few episodes where her competence as a criminalist comes into question, and she is forced to deal with the consequences of a major blunder. |
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This all plays to the core competence of business attorneys. |
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This shows us the tremendous speed that comes with a technique applied by a skilled and practiced man functioning at an unconscious competence level. |
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They believe that no government that suffers form faintheartedness, weak-mindedness and the absence of professional integrity and competence, deserves to be trusted to govern. |
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The diversity competence characteristics would be applied to each post, with different levels of requirements according to the nature and seniority of posts. |
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If that state is to be further armed with new laws, its competence will be even more on the line. |
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Doing this at global scale alongside a continuing competence in performance management is a real challenge and one that will really separate the sheep from the goats. |
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When you look at Mona Lisa, what you see is a woman of confidence and competence and compassion. |
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A similar pattern of results was found across the measurement domains of child behavior, parenting skills and competence, and relationship adjustment. |
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This alternative standard resided in a skilled worker's competence and the mutualism of workplace and union and sanctioned both moderate drinking and a degree of roughness. |
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First, Captain Sully, with his cool competence, and now Captain Phillips, with his uncomplicated courage. |
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He claimed that the International Court of Justice in The Hague is the only body with the authority and competence to hear arguments concerning the war's legality. |
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Technical competence in medicine requires fluency in clinical language. |
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They mistook novelty for originality, creativity, and competence. |
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The ballot on Monday, of Rudd versus gillard, is seen as a test of his popularity against her competence. |
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Participants were instructed to distinguish or differentiate competence from job performance, which we defined as how well employees actually performed their jobs. |
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According to the Maastricht Treaty, for areas that do not fall under the exclusive competence of the EU the subsidiarity principle should be applied. |
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His broad biological knowledge extended far beyond ornithology, and his scientific competence and expertise rewarded him with an international reputation. |
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Non-executives, selected for being generalists with insight, are now often required to second guess management in areas beyond their technical competence. |
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They were concerned more with the manner in which the court should exercise its jurisdiction than with its competence to entertain the motion before it. |
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Reform of the banking sector becomes an acid test of this government's determination to change public perception of its competence and its commitment to competition. |
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Through dauntless courage and competence, most of her crew lived through the ordeal, ultimately rescued by a Soviet fishing trawler that luckily happened to be nearby. |
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The current interest in the development of communicative competence has led attention to the social uses of language in second language teaching and research. |
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Hierarchical multiple regression analyses were conducted for the measures of internalizing problems, prosocial competence, and externalizing problems. |
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Most testing instruments rely on the assumption that it is possible to separate analytically different aspects of language competence without reference to the context of use. |
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This internal representation is their interlanguage competence. |
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However, haunted not only by his Manichean past but, soon, by Pelagian boasts of human moral competence, Augustine was never able to shake his anxieties about freedom. |
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When the issue is the efficiency, competence and foresight of U.S. intelligence agencies, one hopes the passage of 365 days is more than a calendric event. |
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Instead, leadership is a measurable, learnable and teachable set of behaviors that can be improved if the desire, awareness and competence are present. |
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On the other hand we can try to co-opt the mental faculties that work well and get children to apply them to problems for which they lack natural competence. |
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They will not come through this smelling of roses, but hopefully they will see the error of their ways and come to think of what real competence is about. |
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Whatever your views on capital punishment, the incident raises questions of basic competence. |
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Looking back, who would have predicted, as the campaign began, that the deciding factors would be competence and steadiness? |
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On one end of a sort of linguistic continuum, one may define multilingualism as complete competence and mastery in another language. |
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Therefore, the Assembly now has the legislative competence to pass Acts of the Assembly in all 20 devolved subjects. |
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Ministers of State advise the Sovereign in delicate situations, with moral authority but without formal competence. |
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Until rendering a final judgment, the Court has competence to order interim measures for the protection of the rights of a party to a dispute. |
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The ICJ has competence to indicate interim measures only if the prima facie jurisdiction is satisfied. |
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Until the advent of automated navigation, competence in calculating tidal effects was important to naval officers. |
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This ATT option entails the use of online resources to improve instructor competence. |
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This means that full competence in both Frisian and Dutch is aimed at all pupils in the province, whether they speak Frisian or Dutch at home. |
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Acceptance is offered after finishing upper secondary school with general study competence. |
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But when did they become the litmus test of competence in office? |
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You owe them competence, discipline, courage, judgment, etc. |
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According to Noam Chomsky, linguistic theory should concern itself primarily with the investigation of a speaker's competence. |
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His competence as a military strategist was criticized by his contemporaries however. |
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This book is useful in actualizing multicultural competence and proficiency. |
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You can choose instead of him a person who is not a professional applauder, on the basis of competence rather than loyalty. |
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Today older people may speak the language but have no written competence because of those years. |
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It is basically responsible for differentiating the linguistic competence of acting. |
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The significance of breaktimes as a mechanism for children to develop social competence is highlighted in much of Peter Blatchford's work. |
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From the outset, I must disclaim any competence as a former Kremlinologist, or indeed as a political analyst of Central Asian affairs. |
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Becoming a Chartered Chemical Engineer demonstrates a high level of competence, experience, and a commitment to best practice. |
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That question is out with the competence of this court and must be taken to a higher court. |
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Cultural competence is the overall theme of this introduction to various perspectives in clinical psychology. |
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Cultural competence requires an attitude of respect for the evaluand and its diverse consumers, providers, and other stakeholders. |
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In other areas the EU and its member states share the competence to legislate. |
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Different legislative procedures are used within the same category of competence, and even with the same policy area. |
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Confronted by the challenge and stimulus of particularity, he moved from a lullingly smooth craftsman's competence to greatness. |
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Wren's later life was not without criticisms and attacks on his competence and his taste. |
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For naturalisation purposes, a competence standard of English, Scottish Gaelic or Welsh is required to pass the life in the United Kingdom test. |
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As of 2013 this general power of competence is available to all principal local authorities and some parish councils. |
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He reminded them that for a smaller force, processional competence is a meaningful force multiplier. |
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Hooke was in demand to settle many of these disputes, due to his competence as a surveyor and his tact as an arbitrator. |
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Reservoir competence of the southeastern five-lined skink and the green anole for Borrelia burgdorferi. |
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According to Talmudic law, the competence to apply capital punishment ceased with the destruction of the Second Temple. |
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This testimony and the letter found on Teach's body by Maynard appeared compelling, but Knight conducted his defence with competence. |
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As to the pilot, his lack of licence did not bear on his general competence. |
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Witness competence rules are legal rules that specify circumstances under which persons are ineligible to serve as witnesses. |
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Each body could deal with any matter within the sphere of competence of the League or affecting peace in the world. |
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As a French overseas collectivity, the local government has no competence in justice, university education, security and defense. |
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Reserved matters are subjects that are outside the legislative competence of the Scotland Parliament. |
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The Act also sets up mechanisms to resolve disputes over questions about legislative competence of the Parliament and powers of the Executive. |
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It negotiates directly with foreign governments on matters within the competence of the States of Jersey. |
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In the Egyptian Armed Forces, politics rather than military competence was the main criterion for promotion. |
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The Northern Ireland Act 1998 establishes the legislative competence of the Northern Ireland Assembly. |
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The exact areas where the member states have given legislative competence to the EU are as follows. |
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This has led to doubt about the competence of the board who had 3 years to set the paper. |
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This must be preceded by psychological workers' commitment to the necessary exercitation to achieve competence in the nosology. |
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The capacity to avoid ethnocentrism is the foundation of intercultural communication competence. |
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A successful career required competence as an administrator and remaining in favour with the emperor, or over time perhaps multiple emperors. |
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He complained privately of French unreliability and lack of fighting competence, a complaint which he would keep up for the next four years. |
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The best modern players have shown, however, that reasonable competence may be achieved even at a later age. |
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Admission to this body was conditional upon proof of competence or experience. |
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In the present study, the investigation of young athletes' goal perspective and perceived competence was linked with the inspection of their self-determined motivation. |
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Social skills may include areas of competence, such as cooperation and peer relationships, and problem behaviors, such as disruptiveness, withdrawal, or hyperactivity. |
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The Scottish Parliament is a devolved unicameral legislature that has the power to pass statutes only affecting Scotland on matters within its legislative competence. |
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During devolution, a convention was created to manage the power of Westminster to legislate on matters within the legislative competence of the Scottish Parliament. |
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However, the original proposal to grant a general power of competence to councils was not carried through, and the doctrine of ultra vires remained. |
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The Assembly then has competence to pass legislation on those Matters. |
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These matters are not explicitly enumerated in the Northern Ireland Act 1998 but instead include any competence not explicitly retained by the Parliament at Westminster. |
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Constitution, there is little discussion on our nation's historied state constitutions, and scholars praise the competence and structural superiority of federal courts. |
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The government's meticulousness conveyed not only competence, but caring. |
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The retreat caused Sir John French to question the competence of his Allies resulting in further indecision and led to his decision to withdraw the BEF south of the Seine. |
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Welsh Government Counsel General Theodore Huckle QC acted yesterday to settle an issue over the Assembly's legislative competence to pass such a Bill. |
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The Andrews Labor Government has welcomed the successful push for a national scheme to register and regulate paramedics and recognise their competence Australia-wide. |
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Concerned about Overton's competence, Pease asked George Stephenson, an experienced enginewright of the collieries of Killingworth, to meet him in Darlington. |
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Members will address the status, competence and development of chemical engineers and promote the contribution of the profession to the UK and global economy. |
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Teachers are now required to teach intercultural communicative competence. |
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Though they were not yet expected to personally fight in battle during Alexander's time, emperors were increasingly expected to display general competence in military affairs. |
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It was then the custom for the Portuguese Crown to appoint nobles to naval and military commands, regardless of experience or professional competence. |
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Building competence in qualitative research requires training. |
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This change in governance distinguished UNESCO from its predecessor, the CICI, in how member states would work together in the organization's fields of competence. |
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Schedule 5 to the 2006 Act may be amended to add specific matters to the broad subject fields, thereby extending the legislative competence of the Assembly. |
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A referendum under these provisions was held in March 2011 and resulted in a vote in favour of granting the assembly the competence to pass the Acts of the Assembly. |
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The Act sets out the legislative competence of the Scottish Parliament. |
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Reflective intercultural competence must be ever present, a continuous and conscious metabolization of the various cultural inputs with which the student is faced. |
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However, proof of competence was not required to start a business. |
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