Sentence examples for mere competence from inspiring English sources

After this low-water mark, even mere competence would look like brilliance.

Mere competence, however, was never a high priority for the band.

Hanks's stories – Alan Bean Plus Four aside – are forgettable, middle-of-the-road and touched by the special banality of mere competence.

Amen is a distinguished fellow of the American Psychiatric Association ("Excellence, not mere competence, is the hallmark of a Distinguished Fellow," the organization says).

These classes alone don't make anyone a good DJ: even the most eager students know that mere competence requires months -- not hours -- of practice.

In swiftly sacking Anthony E. Shorris, the executive director of the Port Authority, a man widely regarded as very able, Mr. Paterson made it clear that mere competence would not carry the day.

Conor Walton, one of Ireland's leading representational painters, strives to create paintings that go beyond mere technical competence.

Therefore, the density and relative abundance of lower-competence hosts is more important than the mere presence/absence of lower-competence hosts in driving this mechanism.

Lacking such transfer of competences, the mere fact that all Member States are parties to Marpol 73/78 is not sufficient, according to the Court, to bind the Community as such.

It was not supposed to offer a choice between competing visions of society and its future, just May's stern competence and the mere anarchy of Labour.

That the systems these scientists create are usually pale shadows of human competence is a mere fact of robotics Today's must-read.