He added that Italy a lacked a competent managerial class within the public administration, as well as control mechanisms, capable of enacting the sorts of reforms that the public spending review would generate.
But to wait for our public schools to be fixed before we can really make headway on improved outcomes isn't fair to the young people already in the pipeline who have not seen significant improvement in competent teaching, class size, or curriculum.
By 1805, La Grande Armée had grown to a force of 350,000, was well equipped, well trained, and possessed a competent officer class where almost all from sergeants to marshals had experience in the recent revolutionary wars.
Then there was the time his fly broke at the Golden Globes just as he walked by Pierce Brosnan, and the time he cut his hand badly at the glass store while pretending to be a competent working-class handyman type.
To further analyze the deregulated secretion/translocation-competent phenotype, class III derivatives were compared for the localization on the bacterial surface by flow cytometry.
I can recall the worry I felt on his first day and my concern that he didn't feel happy or challenged or competent enough in class throughout the year.
The notion that the immunoproteasome is more competent at producing class-I-binding peptides probably remains true for many epitopes.
With the exception of Mary Louise Wilson, who as Mary's pragmatic mother has a pitch-perfect sense of character and class, the competent cast misses the high style that should make Luce's women at once lethal and wonderful.
A federal judge on Monday ruled that Dylann Roof, the white supremacist found guilty last month of shooting nine parishioners at a Charleston, S.C., Bible study class, is competent to stand trial and represent himself in the sentencing part of his death penalty trial.
Enterovirus infections were diagnosed as an increase in IgG levels in 9.2% of the mothers, but no detectable IgM was observed in the cord blood samples, even though the fetus is known to be competent of producing IgM class antibodies already in utero (24, 25).
