Sentence examples for figures of competence from inspiring English sources

Fictional male detectives in the past have often been robust figures of competence, standing at the centre of the plot, from where they make sense of the incomprehensible, turn chaos into order, join up the clues to find the criminal, restore normality.

Carrie's mother is such a figure of competence in the story: everything is planned, orderly, and in accordance with her taste, down to the aesthetic style of the house the family lives in.

Stephen Pound said the Speaker should be a figure of "dignified competence".

For Trump, those figures are simply a confirmation of competence: in Trumpian politics, the richer you are, the better you must be at cutting a deal.

On the same note, college students must begin to rely on their own instincts and on the advice and input from other adults and authority figures to develop a sense of competence and self-reliance.

"The Conservative Party needs to move the debate on beyond the net migration figure, instead establishing a record of competence on immigration and showing the public they are building a contributory-based immigration system".

Figure 5 shows a schematic model of competence regulation in B. licheniformis by presenting the role of the pheromone in QS system.

Instead it looks as if it has been dreamed up to change the subject after the UK's modest growth figure cast a big shadow over those claims of competence.

To determine the residents' ability to translate concepts from the cognitive domain into behavior change in their clinical practice, we used an "authentic performance" assessment based on Miller's pyramid model of competence [ 27] (See Figure 1).

"These figures are completely unacceptable and demonstrate a serious lack of competence on the Welsh Government's part," she said.

He hopes to win on abstract points of competence, on being the exotically superior figure you can--or must, in the end--trust.