Sentence examples for competence against from inspiring English sources

Indeed, much of Strauss's work is a radical attack — made with the greatest intellectual competence — against the latter-­day enemies of both the Bible and a Socratic Aristotle.

A quarter of 15-year-olds do not even reach basic levels of scientific competence (against an OECD average of a fifth).

For ODI cricket, though, it was felt that his lack of competence against the moving ball, and an inability to find the middle ground between block and bash to maintaining a high strike rate, restricted him.

The retirement of Alastair Cook and a competence against spin that came with Jennings' century on debut in India seemed to be a powerful enough combination, somehow, to override what you would expect was the rather more relevant evidence of Jennings' mediocre batting in this series (163 runs at an average of 18.11).

Third, it is important in measuring a child's competence against that in respect of which he or she is expressing a view to distinguish between the complexity and the seriousness of the matter.

14 17 The self-assessment approach investigates how well individuals can judge their personal competence against an objective measure of competence.

More than half of teachers who had been bullied say they experienced persistent, unjustified criticism and 45% reported intimidatory use of discipline and competence procedures against them.

14/15 learners gained research competence assessed against UK Quality Assurance Agency criteria.

Erasmus' integrity, even his self-respect, had been challenged by Luther's charges against his competence but especially against his religious sincerity.

The great difficulty with bringing together short stories by a range of authors is that competence rubs up against genius, and does itself no favours.

The idea is to strengthen Saudi competence and confidence against Iran, which poses a serious threat to all of its neighbors.