Sentence examples for nor competent from inspiring English sources

At one extreme they believe him neither interested nor competent in the myriad details of day-to-day business operations and therefore question the authority his judgments regularly carry.

... She'd probably be inept in the boardroom". Groups prejudged as high in both warmth and competence — such as the middle class — tend to be admired by other groups, while those seen as neither warm nor competent — poor and homeless people, for example — often are socially excluded.

But Mr Chavez and his education minister, Hector Navarro, claim that some of them are simply businesses, with no educational ethic.Rhetoric and realityMr Chavez's fierce rhetoric often turns into more reasonable reality: he has centralised power in his own hands, but his regime is neither repressive nor competent at enforcing its own laws.

She was a caring parent, but was neither politically talented nor competent to prepare Mary and Hedwig for their roles as monarchs.

Although King Otto tried to function as an absolute monarch, as Thomas Gallant writes, he "was neither ruthless enough to be feared, nor compassionate enough to be loved, nor competent enough to be respected".

MacDonald's administration lasted less than a year before, in November 1924, the Liberals withdrew their support; Blythe suggests that the first Labour government had been "neither exhilarating nor competent".

His devastating judgment on the book was that it had not made him "more judicious in his studies of history and antiquity, nor more skilled in disputation, nor more competent at writing poetry, nor indeed more competent at anything at all…" (Ramus, Scholae dialecticae, in Scholae in liberales artes, col. 153).

While industry specialists are fine, my experience is that they are neither more nor less competent than those of us who are generalists.

Not all pycnidiospores would mature simultaneously nor be competent to infect but, from this, we can estimate that the asexual spore load per hectare over a growing season may reach 1010 11 spores.

The formation of the nucleolus is primarily dependent on the transcriptional activity of competent NORs (nucleolus organizer regions) that are composed of hundreds to thousands tandem copies of rRNA genes [9], [11].

Nucleoli assemble at the exit from mitosis concomitantly with restoration of rDNA transcription at the level of competent NORs (Roussel et al. 1996).