Competence

//ˈkɑm.pə.təns//

"Competence" in a Sentence (17 examples)

Ted doesn't have the competence to teach English.

Linguistic competence is inborn, not acquired.

Develop your linguistic competence as much as possible.

Competence and performance are two different things.

The Competence Center serves as a meeting place of problems and solutions.

I'm not questioning your competence.

He has extensive experience and his competence has branched out into several fields.

Tom isn't questioning your competence.

But English competence is not everything when it comes to writing well.

That's beyond my competence.

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Teachers are now required to teach intercultural communicative competence.

Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, / Lie in three words — health, peace, and competence.

“money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it. Beyond a competence, it can afford no real satisfaction, as far as mere self is concerned.”

A few years ago there lived in a city on the Mississippi a happy family, consisting of a husband, wife, and two children. They were in comfortable circumstances—he able to earn a competence—kind, affable, affectionate, […]

The bill was denied royal assent because the Scottish Parliament does not have legislative competence on the bill's matter.

K C Wheare's definition of federalism requires that two governments be independent and co-ordinate within their own spheres, generally set out by the division of competences codified in a constitution, which is supreme.

Also, the Constitutional Court has tried to reduce impunity in cases of human rights abuses by narrowly interpreting the legal competence of military justice to investigate military and police officers.

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