A narrow majority of the 731 MEPs, perhaps 30 to 40, was preparing to defy arm-twisting by Tony Blair, Germany's Gerhard Schröder and other EU leaders to back Mr Barroso despite hostility to his choice of Rocco Buttiglione as the justice commissioner and serious doubts over the competence of four other commissioners.
Its aim is to build a fully integrated decision support tool "DANUBIA" that combines the competence of eleven institutes in domains covering all major aspects governing the water cycle.
In his ICC model, Byram (1997) points out that IC, which relates to other competences, namely linguistic competence, sociolinguistic competence and discourse competence, consists of five elements such as attitudes, knowledge, skills of interpreting and relating, skills of discovery and interaction, and critical cultural awareness/political education.
Canale and Swain (1980) proposed a theoretical framework of language competence consisting of three main components: grammatical competence, sociolinguistic competence, and strategic competence.
We report two experiments on logical reasoning competences of nineteen stock-brokers with long-lasting vocational experiences at the stock market.
We asked Group B three types of questions about party competence on two specific issues, immigration and education.
The Mary Berry-approved gran Marie may have won star baker, but Sandy, a 49-year-old child welfare officer from Bradford, has the insouciance of series four's Ruby, the playful wit of series fives's Norman and the cool-headed competence of series two's Joanne.
We also assessed the competence of the two types of professionals that were the performing surgeons, by noting information about the institution at which they did their internship as well as the number of years of practice each of them had after a completed internship.
This article describes an intervention aimed at fostering reflective thinking in order to investigate its impact in the learning process and competences development of two groups of second-year students on the Early Childhood Education Degree at the University of Barcelona.
