In any case, when it comes to the region's future, it is surely better for the agency's leaders to confront the wrath of the governors and other politicians than to stand by while the Port Authority withers into a pool of patronage and diminished competence.
In special research populations where there are reasons to doubt children's decision-making capacities (e.g. intellectual disabled children or pediatric patients with a psychiatric disorder that diminishes competence), a research protocol could include a standardized competence assessment of participants.
As an added benefit, those who believe that term limits for officeholders diminish the competence and capabilities of legislative bodies will be able to claim that they nevertheless do support such limits when they make sense.
Further, videoconferencing methods do not appear to diminish therapist competence, adherence, or patient perceptions of rapport or empathy conveyed by the therapist [ 89].
Cronyism has diminished the competence of government ministries that were already feeble.
Others experience mild to severe musculoskeletal complaints [ 13], like joint pain in multiple joints [ 10], fatigue [ 13], diminished motor competence [ 14] and muscle weakness [ 15].
Adolescent drug and cannabis use was also linked to a less successful autonomy development and diminished perceived competences later in life [ 6].
Bonneville's Fletcher, meanwhile, has a veneer of competence, albeit diminished by his daily fumblings with his folding bike.
Lawyers for his co-defendants, James L. Dolan, the chairman of the Garden, and the Garden, have said that while her competence was diminishing, she was fired for impeding their investigation into her claims of sexual harassment, not in retaliation for making them.
