Sentence examples for own competence from inspiring English sources

Male teachers tend to regard themselves as more competent and female teachers are more inclined to underestimate their own competence (Cooper 2006; Ong and Lai 2006).

D.R.: Do they have a great sense of their own competence?

"A victim of her own competence?" blared the headline on a story about the vanquished Clark.

Doubting his own competence, "he felt like the gamekeeper's son he used to be".

The political movement he belonged to was the movement of his own competence and mastery.

He knew his own competence and integrity, which were acknowledged and respected.

As the argument progressed, some justices wondered about their own competence to undertake a salvage job.

No longer having faith in their own competence, politicians have blithely surrendered the state's most basic duties.

"These nations are asking for their own competence and for the ramp-up of their own industries".

In mild doses, feeling like a fraud also tempers the natural instinct to define one's own competence in self-serving ways.

Unlike their unskilled counterparts, the most able subjects in the study, Dr. Kruger and Dr. Dunning found, were likely to underestimate their own competence.