When Lynch was traded to the Seattle Seahawks for a pittance, in 2010, his new team expected nothing more than basic competence.
Traditionally, it is believed that there are certain skills a novelist needs to master in order to win readers: a sense of plot, compelling characters, more than basic competence with grammar.
"It's more of a basic competence.
Likewise, the matrix helped identify areas where competences might be better sequenced or where explicit course prerequisites were needed to ensure students had acquired basic competence before more advanced skills were taught.
(To give you an idea of how bad the public criticism of the FBI got, even the Wall Street Journal's editorial board wrote that the the FBI's handling of the case "continue[s] to supply more reasons to doubt their credibility and even basic competence").
More education (basic and continuing education) and information retrieval (use of nursing journals) were positively related to basic competence, whereas work motivation or gender had a negative association with it.
A Gaullist colleague of the president said he thought he could use his strengths (energy, competence and a willingness to undertake difficult reforms) to correct what he considered an error more basic than the supposedly stylistic ones.
Many have come to question his basic competence.
All applicants must demonstrate a basic competence in English.
But Western analysts say that image is now in doubt amid rising questions of basic competence.
