competence

How To Use competence In A Sentence

• Bounties were paid right across a banking sector whose incompetence threw thousands of innocents into jeopardy. Times, Sunday Times
• He says the Pension Funds Act should require that trustees have the qualities of honesty and integrity, the competence to fulfil the duties of a trustee, a minimum academic qualification, such as matric, and some relevant experience. Persfin
• Other usual reasons for disqualification, including adjudgement of incompetence or quasi-incompetence, shall also apply.
• This is not by any means the only instance of financial incompetence on the part of our various Scottish ancestors, nor indeed of the tendency to resort to violence, and those patterns offer surprisingly little reassurance from the genetic standpoint. Archive 2009-03-01
• This all plays to the core competence of business attorneys.
• ‘I only wish farmers could be fully compensated for the incompetence, inefficiency and neglect of the Department over which Mrs Beckett presides,’ he said.
• How would this family prove it was the insurance company's incompetence that led to the lapsed life policy and thus claim the assured amount?
• How was he to know that political incompetence was the key qualification for the job? Times, Sunday Times
• But army hard-liners, led by Mr. Ioannidis, staged a successful countercoup on Nov. 25, 1973, and ruled Greece with increasing harshness and incompetence for the next eight months. Dimitrios Ioannidis, 87, dies; former Greece security chief led countercoup
• A court's competence to grant an anti-suit injunction seems to derive from its jurisdiction to adjudicate.