The metal shards left behind suggest that the bomb was larger than a grenade, and the aim and timing of the detonation suggests no small measure of competence on the part of the assailants.
With his calm professional manner, he reminded me of Simon Pegg's character in Hot Fuzz, the young policeman sent to a small village, whose competence is wasted on the cases he has to deal with.
"People like to say that these are conservative justices, but they're actually radical and reactionary in the sense that it wants to keep government to the smallest area of competence that it has".
These data provide a starting point for future work to clarify the reservoir competence of small mammals for A. phagocytophilum and to determine how ecologic interactions among small mammals, other vertebrate hosts, multiple possible vectors, and both B. burgdorferi and A. phagocytophilum could affect the enzootic persistence of these pathogens and risk to humans and animals.
We elected to include a small number of key competence measures as we felt that we could not interpret confidence entirely isolated from competence.
Piaget's view had become standard by the nineteen-fifties, but psychologists have since come to believe that he underrated the arithmetic competence of small children.
Studies have shown that QS in Bacillus species is mediated by small peptides that control competence (for DNA uptake), sporulation and the production of certain secondary metabolites in a cell-density dependent fashion (Bassler and Miller 2013).
A small time window of competence of ethylene has also been found; for instance, in Alstroemeria flower senescence and abscission [ 43], in contrast to other species like petunia, where suppressing ethylene action is able to delay flower senescence for longer periods [ 44- 46].
Although, 9 competence-related genes such as comEA, comer and comEC were identified, they represent only a small portion of the complete competence pathway [ 71- 73].
I gave him a small assignment to assess his competence, his intelligence.
