Sentence examples for it was competent from inspiring English sources

And Dr. Edwards destroyed another myth -- that sperm needed to be exposed to secretions in the female reproductive tract before it was competent for fertilization -- by showing that freshly obtained sperm worked fine.

Reprints Related items The Conservative Party: Hope over experienceOct 13th 2005 Conservative leadership election: The line-upOct 6th 2005 Bagehot: David Davis has a fight on his handsOct 6th 2005Whereas Labour had to show it was competent, the task for the Tories, which is in some ways more difficult, is to show they are decent.

"It was competent for disciplinary tribunal to impose the additional sanction of prohibiting registrations of any new players of 18 years or older for a period of 12 months," it stated.

Martin has singled it out as his personal favourite of all the band's albums; Lennon said it was "competent" but had "no life in it".

Although RB-K is defective in inhibiting the trans-activation activity of E2F1 (Fig. 1E), it was competent in repressing transcription from an E2F-regulated promoter (Fig. 2A).

It was competent to reproduce time courses of key signaling molecules measured for three different ligand concentration levels.

It is planning for it, is competent enough to carry out its responsibilities and has committed itself to an inflation target of just under 2percentt.

I don't think it is competent.

It is competent but extremely slight (Mitchell).

It is competent but extremely slight.

As it stands, it is competent, but it seems driven to clear up complications as quickly as acne is dispatched in an infomercial.