Sentence examples for outside the competence from inspiring English sources

Provision of most of these requirements lies outside the competence of governments.

Such a property was completely outside the competence of Lewis's theory to predict and must be contrived in VB theory.

Judge Lord Doherty, sitting at the Court of Session in Edinburgh, has ruled that the legislation was not outside the competence of the Scottish Parliament, and that it is within the devolved competence and powers of Scottish ministers.

In France, Belgium, and the Netherlands, for example, companies may omit resolutions on the general grounds that they deal with subjects that are outside the competence of the general meeting.

His exceptional position as an internationally known harpsichord maker as well as a student of harpsichord history allows him to discuss technical as well as historical matters that would be outside the competence of a musicologist.

The company had claimed the act was outside the competence of Holyrood as sales supply and product safety were matters reserved to Westminster.

Jon Cunliffe, the UK's permanent representative to the EU, wrote a letter to the committee chairman saying Mr Lobban would be unable to attend because national security issues were the responsibility of member states and "fall outside the competences of the Union".

This study demonstrates that the competences required to perform lifesaving interventions in a large urban population to a large extent are competences outside the competences of an ordinary emergency medical technician or paramedic but inside the curriculum of an attending anaesthesiologist.

With skepticism growing inside and outside Pakistan about the competence and objectivity of the investigation into Ms. Bhutto's assassination, President Pervez Musharraf is expected as early as Wednesday to ask Scotland Yard to send technicians to help with the inquiry, an American official said.

On the other hand 'health' was regarded as outside European competence until the 1992 Treaty of Maastricht.

If it is now respectable to maintain, with Wallace Stevens and others, that the world is known through imaginative apprehensions of the sort that poetry celebrates and employs, this is attributable to developments far outside the normal competence of critics.