Sentence examples for lacked competent from inspiring English sources

The Federal Trade Commission, which announced the settlement, said Airborne lacked "competent and reliable scientific evidence to support the claims".

T lymphocytes are thought to play an important role in regulating the inflammatory response and regeneration of muscle after injury, and this was the first study, to our knowledge, to specifically evaluate the response of skeletal muscle to a chronic injury in an animal that lacked competent T cells.

Because these students lack competent research skills they use sources that lack credibility and accuracy such as Wikipedia and unfounded opinion blogs that compound this problem.

According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, "Reading proficiency by third grade is the most significant predictor of high school graduation and career success, yet two-thirds of U.S. third-graders lack competent reading skills".

Others lack competent teachers and appropriate curricula.

Occasionally we lack competent directors to motivate us.

We therefore assessed the effects of FK506 on outcome from pulmonary aspergillosis in RAG−/− mice that lack competent adaptive immune responses.

He added that Italy a lacked a competent managerial class within the public administration, as well as control mechanisms, capable of enacting the sorts of reforms that the public spending review would generate.

Perceptions of higher technical quality attract women to deliver at hospitals, unlike health centres which typically cannot provide emergency operation and lack competent midwives and doctors [ 22- 25].

He also lacks a competent go-to move on offense, which further decreases his marketability.

The prime minister, Ivars Godmanis, is a heavyweight, but lacks a competent team.