Sentence examples for competent us from inspiring English sources
In a political sense we - and the world - would certainly have been helped by a less arrogant and more competent US.
A House panel has approved (but has not yet issued) subpoenas for five administration officials, including Karl Rove, in its investigation of the firing of eight seemingly competent US attorneys.
We used our imaginations, created things with Legos and built model planes (at least the more competent among us did).
This approach was taken for two reasons: firstly, the availability of a naturally transformable strain of A. pleuroneumoniae [17], that is genetically more tractable than P. multocida and secondly, the fact that A. pleuroneumoniae is naturally competent allows us to investigate a possible role for ComE1 in natural transformation in this bacterium.
"If they could not give us adequate information about what is going on in the country, about security positions, then it is clear to us that they are not competent to protect us," said Sahr Kellie, 26, a university student who had come to the stadium.
Michael Dougan, a professor of international law at Liverpool University, says: "The EU, through this withdrawal agreement, cannot give us anything that the EU institutions are not competent to offer us.
Taste-immune associative learning can result from contingent pairings of an immune-competent unconditioned stimulus (US) with a gustative conditioned stimulus (CS).
The competent waitress warned us that there would be a 15-minute wait for the chocolate soufflé.
However true to the plainspoken straightforwardness of the characters whose inner depths it plumbs, Thompson's language rarely soars beyond the serviceable and competent to impress us with a closely observed detail, an original perception, an elegant or unexpected turn of phrase.
The structural elucidation of a catalytically competent synapsis led us to investigate the molecular features of these polymerases that facilitate DNA binding and extension in a synapsed NHEJ configuration.
We need to know that others appreciate us and see us as competent.
