To the state and federal judges who ruled against Mr. Holsey, this powerful additional evidence was simply redundant: It would not have changed the case's outcome even if his lawyer had been competent enough to present it at the initial trial.
She needs a competent lawyer to present it," the judges said.
It also would require a patient seeking life-ending drugs to be mentally competent and to present two separate requests to an attending physician and for two witnesses to attest to the patient's wish to die.
It has to present a competent economic plan and it has to make the case for social liberalism in conjunction with other parties.
In public, accounts of the impact of street light reductions on personal security or mobility were circumscribed by the need to present a competent self, with participants reluctant to admit that fear of the dark, for instance, would curtail their activities.
This talk of empowerment could, of course, be an artifact of the interview situation; they associated me with the NGO world and they wished to present themselves as competent in a language they thought I could understand – as people who could 'facilitate'; who had 'skills and knowledge' and who were 'empowered' (terms often used in interviews).
In the circumstances, quite how the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats have managed to present themselves as economically competent might be thought something of a political mystery.
Therefore, we hypothesized that DCs may also have the capacity to present antigens from fusion competent nonreplicating virus i.e. AT-2 HIV-1[25], [44] to prime HIV-specific T cell responses.
What respondents report in research should also be treated as accounts that serve several functions, including to present oneself as a competent member of the community.
This may have influenced interviews, for example one physiotherapist used detailed clinical language when referring to musculoskeletal pain and the impact on sickness certification, perhaps to present themselves as technically competent to the GP trainee researcher.
