For example, in an interview with "60 Minutes" that also aired over the weekend, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos tried to appear to be competent, and failed.
Like France, Germany produced a school of portrait engravers; but, although competent technicians, they failed to develop a distinctly national school comparable to the French.
I greatly respected his considered opinion that physician-assisted suicide should be available to mentally competent patients who have failed conventional and/or palliative therapy, and who wish to spare their families and themselves what amounts to cruel suffering.
Also in the immune competent mice, the mutant failed to replicate immediately after infection.
Interestingly, although the induction of Noxa in the p65-reconstituted cells was completely ablated by DN-p73β, the ectopic expression of a transactivation-competent version of p73β failed to activate expression of Noxa in the p65-null cells.
If this rule is what one must accept to count as competent with the meaning of the expression type 'water', then it is no surprise that competent speakers often fail to realize that water = H2O: for they may not know that H2O is what actually fulfills the reference-fixing role in question.
Even otherwise competent adults often fail to understand clinical research sufficiently to make their own informed decisions regarding whether to enroll (Flory and Emanuel 2004).
In this way, one may regard many of the regulations on clinical research not as inconsistent with the libertarian ideal, but instead as starting from that ideal and recognizing that otherwise competent adults often fail to attain it.
He dismissed those who had failed as "less competent people".
Shannon O'Brien, the competent state treasurer, has similarly failed to grip the voters, especially the women.
