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Example sentences for: competent

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I'm thinking to myself, 'If your people would have been competent enough to tell me that I should show my license and courteous enough to put the luggage on for my wife, then I would be on a flight now with my family to Detroit, not roaming an airport with a starving baby being sent on a wild goose chase."
Binding sites that are close to these low-complexity words may be found in more transcriptionally competent regions of TCRs.
There is a sharper contrast between EBM and the methods of clinical experience and observational studies, according to the EBM proponent: uncontrolled studies take certain reports of clinical endpoints as observation sentences - i.e., sentences that would be agreed to by all competent observers, sentences that are the checkpoint and basis for science - when in fact some of those reports do not count as observation sentences; and in other cases, uncontrolled studies may base their conclusions on observation sentences that are too tenuously linked to the claimed result, resulting in a post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy.
Is Madeleine Albright a great diplomat or merely a competent one?
moral and intellectual" (Donald Lyons, the Wall Street Journal ). Others take the occasion to recall, resentfully, how the "reactionary" show beat out Hair for a Tony; Newsday 's Linda Winer declares it "Broadway's equivalent of an extremely competent after-school special."