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Discover LudwigThe phrase "when competent" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a condition or situation where someone is capable or qualified to perform a task or duty. Example: "The project will proceed when competent individuals are available to lead the team."
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We can exercise this right to decide our fate contemporaneously when competent, and prospectively, under the authority of the Mental Capacity Act of 2007, through legally binding instruments that give effect to our wishes after we become legally incompetent.
When competent biologists examine the terrestrial ecological system, the arrangement's functionality makes sense: it is scientifically justifiable.
It's the sort of game you get when competent designers find a play model that works very well, and then spend 17 years refining it.
When competent cells divided, GFP per cell decreased.
When competent graduates are deployed, we expect that their work will contribute to certain outcomes.
Langmuir believed that when competent persons were thrust into challenging circumstances with supportive supervision, excellent results were certain.
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David E. Kelley's hit series about a deeply neurotic lawyer named Ally McBeal marked a turning point in the devolution of women's roles in television comedy — the moment when competent-but-flaky hardened into basket case.
In his theory, he states that it is very difficult to make such competencies explicit, which is a pity because when such competent behaviours could be made explicit, they can be taught and people can learn about them.
It was shown for S. pneumoniae that when becoming competent streptococcal cells produce a set of factors triggering the lysis of clonal but non-competent relatives.
The prison began to improve when a competent governor took over and introduced a programme of changes which the staff followed enthusiastically.
My daughters implied that if I incorporated it into my repertoire — maybe making it on occasions when a competent sous-chef happened to be available — it would be different enough from the old recipe to constitute a separate dish.
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