Sentence examples for competent and efficacious from inspiring English sources

Parents who believe they are competent and efficacious interact with their children in a way that promotes effective developmental outcomes (Coleman and Karraker 2003).

The use of replication-competent adenovirus deficient of the E1B gene coupled to an AFP-targeting strategy may be a safe and efficacious treatment for HCC.

And yet this is the most influential, and efficacious, royal portrait in British history.

It is only bias, says Fuller, that makes science seem more wildly successful and efficacious than – what?

First, they must construct a set of self-appraisals or convictions about themselves, namely, that they are competent or efficacious; that they are related to or belong in communities of science, like school gardens; and that they are autonomous and take ownership for their own academic progress.

Fig. 1 Properties and efficacious effects of ENPs on lungs.

However, in this time of internal – hopefully creative and efficacious – turbulence, such transfers are to be expected.

These items rendered the image more powerful and efficacious.

"I express my hope that this agreement will be lasting and efficacious, and bring forth the desired fruits," he added.

This feature allows the members -- the consumers -- to purchase essential and efficacious medical therapies whose costs might otherwise be prohibitive.

So, unfortunately, the public becomes the guinea pig for many untoward reactions of the "safe and efficacious, FDA-approved" drug.