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Competent or not?

"There are legal consequences for one's actions whether you are mentally competent or not," Mr. Phillips said.

The fact is that when the great powers squabble, there's little that anyone in the organization can accomplish, be they competent or not.

(Sulcas) State Ballet Theater of Russia (Friday) Many generically named Russian companies are touring around the world, and you never know whether the troupes will be good, or competent, or not even that.

Bob Herbert's March 8 column about the last-minute postponement of the execution of Antonio Richardson, who is brain-damaged and mentally retarded, brings to mind a point regarding capital punishment, whether the person to be executed is mentally competent or not.

But the real question, Mr. Quatremer said, is whether the European Union is competent or not, "and at what point should the E.U. activate itself?" Fabrice Pothier, the director of Carnegie Europe, the Brussels center for the Carnegie Endowment, said that the ash problem grew slowly and was not at the start thought to be so long-lasting.

When you ask people what could be the cause of that, they will then begin to look at this 4-year programme and ask whether it produces competent midwives or not?

Therefore, if their supervisors are not EBP-competent or do not serve as role models of evidence-based decision making, then this can have a deleterious effect on student learning [ 35].

Our view is that the competence elements of an apprenticeship programme are binary, in that you are either competent or you're not.

On a separate  question asking how competent the Trump administration has been in managing the federal government, Americans remain divided: 49percentt say very or somewhat competent, and 48percentt say not too or not at all competent.

These appointments were significant not because these people were not competent or qualified-they were.