Sentence examples for the first competent from inspiring English sources

But the bell began to toll for analogue photography in 2003 when Canon released the EOS 300, the first competent digital single lens reflex, and Nikon followed soon after with its D70.

The Food and Drug Administration of the United States of America (the US FDA) was the first competent authority for medical device to mandate medical device quality system requirement to ensure the safety and effectiveness of medical devices.

Perhaps about the year 2020 the process will have produced the first broadly competent "universal robots" with lizardlike minds that can be programmed for almost any routine chore.

In the case of T. brucei, the end product of LLO synthesis is Man9GlcNAc2-PP-Dol and TbSTT3B does indeed have a preference for this donor whereas TbSTT3A has specificity for the first topologically competent LLO intermediate Man5GlcNAc2-PP-Dol.

Importantly, differing from the existing cotton BAC libraries [ 11- 15], this BIBAC library is the first one competent for direct plant transformation via both Agrobacterium[ 29, 30] and biolistic bombardment [ 22].

Leicester were the fourth least competent side last year, and are now the third most competent which is just one turnaround from a remarkable season for them.

When, with the help of A. J. Liebling, the magazine's nonfiction came of age in World War II, so did Shawn, the last of a long line of managing editors and the first to be competent.

Family history for breast, prostate and colon cancer is one of the first things any competent doctor asks you about at a checkup.

Brian Lowry of Variety called the first two episodes "competent but uninspiring", and said it "suffers by comparison with any number of similarly themed dramas, most recently BBC America's fun-loving Torchwood".

The report must be electronically or manually signed by the authorised laboratory specialist who validated the analysis and interpreted the result; co-validation and co-signature by a second competent person is recommended (and mandatory in some countries).

They won their fourth game in a row, getting three home runs from a relentless offense and five and two-thirds competent innings from Sidney Ponson.