They can't just keep repeating that simple competence, prudence, and sympathetic good sense are the answers, while exhibiting none of those traits.
On the other hand, the film, by dint of its simple competence — being largely well acted, not too long, and sombrely photographed, by Seamus McGarvey — has to be better than the novel.
Upon a foundation of the simplest competences — such as the on-off switch in a computer, or the electrical and chemical signalling of a cell — can be built higher and higher competences until you wind up with something that looks very much like intelligence.
The authors, who both worked at the Bank of England, attribute the FSRs' failure either to simple lack of competence or to reluctance to publicise weaknesses.The failure to spot trouble in the system as a whole was replicated in the supervision of individual banks.
It is not an academic question, or a simple clash over scientific competence, but an implied accusation of negligent homicide.
The first task required the participants to tap with their index finger as fast as possible; this test provided a simple assessment of motor competence.
These participants did not give much importance to behavioural competence, comfort, simple appearance or cultural competence.
But Mitzi Grasso, the president of the Police Protective League, the police officers' union, said the issue was competence, plain and simple.
The final leg of our leadership stool is competence, pure and simple.
The linguistic nativist's theory views our acquisition of grammatical competence as a simple matter — one that can be described at one level of explanation, and in terms of a single kind of process.
To pilot the development and evaluation of a simple teaching tool to improve competence in the assessment and management of acutely unwell patients by local health workers that can be delivered onsite with minimal resources.
