Most free-living mycobacteria are naturally competent, that is, they can take up genetic material from the environment and recombine it into their chromosome [ 63].
"If you are just very competent, that's not enough".
"I now look forward," Abbott said, "to forming a government that is competent, that is trustworthy... a government that says what it means and means what it says".
Still, the official said: "What we had was, we thought, a rather competent judgment that they in fact had taken the program on and produced weapons and agent".
Women and families are reassured by feeling the midwife attending them is confident and competent -- that they are in "good hands".
One important way to close the achievement gap is to ensure that teachers are culturally competent so that they can provide their students with the educational experience they deserve.
Reviewing the finished game, Ciolek opined that Lightning is initially "far too distant and cold, as though the writers were so intent on creating a tough, competent heroine that they forgot to make her at all compelling".
Many bacteria are competent, indicating that they have the ability to actively acquire extracelluar DNA from the environment [37].
Some women mentioned that it was more important to them that health professionals were competent and that they felt safe than that they knew them.
