He patently refused, having never learned to competently drive on account of being a chickenshit little boy of a man.
It has been recognised that adoption of self-management skills (i.e. the learned ability to perform and act competently) by persons with diabetes is necessary to enable them to manage their diabetes.
This quantitative data was used to confirm that participants had learned the psychomotor skills needed to use the device competently.
From the earliest years, the child, boy or girl, was entrusted to a Greek servant or slave and thus learned to speak Greek fluently even before being able to speak Latin competently; the child also learned to read and write in both languages, with Greek again coming first.
Hanscombe said he learned Napper could have been caught earlier if relevant investigations had been conducted "competently" only a short time before Napper pleaded guilty in 2008.
What I learned from her stories was this: Women could do hard things and do them competently; problems could be worked out if you ignored what everyone else told you and did what the situation required; sometimes there are men around and sometimes not, but life goes on pretty much the same either way.
Techmeme learned long ago that algorithms alone aren't nearly enough to fully, quickly, and competently convey the news.
These advanced cardiac measurements take training to competently perform, and could add additional time to the patient's evaluation with FOCUS, but can be performed in an efficient manner once learned, in the appropriate clinical setting.
BRYAN GARNER: Well, anybody can learn to write competently.
James Arnold's "Jungle of Snakes" is useful to learn the fundamentals, competently summarizing past counterinsurgency campaigns in the Philippines, Algeria, Malaya and Vietnam, but offering few striking insights.
The average time needed for a person to learn how to competently board from the top to the bottom was 10 hours, Bowley said, so I was on track.
