Sentence examples for every competent from inspiring English sources

Every competent patient has the right to refuse medical intervention, including life-sustaining interventions".

"Every competent patient has the right to refuse medical intervention, including life-sustaining interventions," Dr. Lazarus wrote.

Dr. Michael Wicks, chairman of the British Medical Association's Ethics Committee, said the ruling "reinforces well-established legal and ethical guidelines that every competent adult has the right to refuse medical treatment, even when this may lead to their death".

Practically every competent health-industry lobbyist managed to insert a line protecting the services his paymasters provide so Obamacare is too costly and too complicated, but it is doing a little better than it is given credit for (see article).

Every competent adult who is not into suffering and that sort of redemption should be able to limit his or her pain, and have their companion of choice right there at the end.

If "good" were synonymous with some naturalistic predicate "X", then this would be obvious on reflection to every competent speaker.

I asked directions of every competent-looking person I encountered, each of whom would confidently point me in the opposite direction of the last person I had asked.

The day Apple allows any government to insist on back doors is the day every remotely competent bad actor in the world switches to third-party encrypted apps which require their own separate access codes.

As every half-competent officer must surely know, the more the public loses trust in you, the harder your job gets – assuming you take it as read that the job is the prevention and detection of crime, as opposed to getting cosy with useful journalists or maximising perks.

Here's the problem and the solution that sports provides: Not every teacher is a competent teacher, not every policeman is a stellar policeman.

These young people are every bit as competent as career waiters in the island's fanciest spots.