Sentence examples for ability to competently from inspiring English sources

However, this relation is based on young women's ability to competently negotiate the 'feeling rules' that govern youthful femininity.

But my ability to competently interact with people was probably always in doubt.

With longevity increases over time in the human evolutionary lineage, older women having the neuroprotective apolipoproteins would have enjoyed a selective advantage since their ability to competently care for their grandchildren (with whom they share 1/4 of their DNA) was prolonged [ 31, 32].

It was an enormous victory for the rule of law, a major milestone in Mr. Obama's efforts to close the detention camp at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and an important departure from Mr. Bush's disregard for American courts and their proven ability to competently handle high-profile terror cases.

According to the Washington Post's Greg Sargent, the problem is that while voters are in favour of things like raising the minimum wage, they doubted Democrats ability to competently manage the nation's economy.

In 21.2 minutes per game this season, Morris is averaging 7.6 points, 3.4 assists and 1.1 steals, and is fourth in the NBA in assist-to-turnover ratio, a mark of his ability to competently run the point while minimizing mistakes.

Banks that engaged in leveraged borrowing and that trade derivatives including currency derivatives, credit derivatives, commodity derivatives, and interest rate derivatives are not within the ability of the rating agencies to competently rate.

We all want to keep children safe, and many behaviors should raise a red flag about a person's ability to parent competently.

In both loops trainees based their self-assessments on their confidence in their ability to perform competently.

One in vitro characteristic of tumour cells, which distinguishes them from normal non-tumourigenic cells, is their ability to grow competently in soft agar (Freedman and Shin, 1974; Shin et al, 1975).

Since most stress signalling has been shown to involve ROS in some way, one speculative possibility is that the changes we have observed could correspond to a more basal metabolic shift from reproduction and/or growth towards defence that increases the plant's ability to respond competently to stimuli elicited by specific stresses.