Sentences with phrase «competent people at»

I believe that there are some very competent people at the council.

They were clearly competent people at these things.

With some effort you can hire a perfectly competent person at $ 8 to $ 15 per hour and they'll be happy because it is more interesting work than flipping burgers.

The defendant appealed, arguing that there was a question of material fact about whether the dog was controlled by a competent person at the time of the biting.

Not exact matches

Researchers at the University of Basel in Switzerland recently published findings from a series of studies in which 480 people were shown portraits of faces manipulated to appear warm or cold and competent or incompetent.

A study conducted at the Eastern Ontario Research Institute found that people who exercised twice a week for 10 weeks felt more competent socially, academically and athletically.

We are good at attracting, motivating, and retaining competent and committed people.

According to U.S. best practices, nonprofit boards should be comprised of at least five people who have little overlap with an organization's staff or other related parties.70 However, there is only weak evidence that following these best practices is correlated with success, and if they are correlated, that may be because more competent organizations are more likely to both follow best practices and to succeed — rather than because following best practices leads to success.

In the case at hand, Judge Miner and his colleagues determined that the relevant class was «all competent persons who are in the final stages of fatal illness and wish to hasten their deaths.»

On purely moral issues, judges are no more competent or trustworthy, as Justice Scalia observed in Cruzan, the Missouri «right to die» case, than «nine people picked at random from the Kansas City telephone directory.»

Perhaps they would say that if an elite is defined as a group of highly competent, responsible people with a special gift for holding themselves to exacting standards, we have at present rather little in the way of an elite.

But in a time when value confusion reinforced by growth - strangling faith systems often is at the center of the problems that bring people for help, it is essential that counselors, therapists, and teachers be competent and free to deal with these issues explicitly whenever appropriate.

Difference is, it is Molly's ONLY JOB — to be at least competent at asking people relatively insightful questions.

I want improvement at AFC and while I will recognise that Wenger makes tactical errors, I feel we need to blame the right person for transfers otherwise we will not get the change we need, someone competent in the CEO role and someone who can get the job (transfer) done working for him (someone better than Dick Law).

We need a competent staff at the AFC not some bunch of people resting on Wenger's financial competency and get the profit in the end of the day.

When people say another Vieira they mean a tall, strong, competent, fully capable fighting machine who wins almost every duel he goes into and is good at dribbling long lengths of the pitch for inspirational effect.

this is a great example of how competent, well - trained midwives are able to deal (at home) with many «issues» that ppl often assume can only be dealt with in the hospital.

What a securely attached child - OR ADULT - looks like: competent, self - confident, resilient, cheerful much of the time, anticipating people's needs (not from a co-dependent place), empathic, humorous, playful, tries harder in the face of adversity; not vulnerable to approach by strangers because won't go to strangers (as adult, out - going without being foolhardy), good self - esteem, achieving, able to use all mental, physical, emotional resources fully, responsive, affectionate, able to make deep commitments as appropriate, able to be self - disclosing as appropriate, able to be available emotionally as appropriate, able to interact well with others at school and in jobs / careers, likely to be more physically healthy throughout life, self - responsible, giving from a «good heart» place of compassion, has true autonomy, no co-dependent self, because of well developed internal modulation system, less likely to turn to external «devices» (addictions) to modulate affect

«At this critical stage in our country where people are fast losing hope in politicians to address the current economic crisis and deal with corruption, Ghana needs a leader who is honest, decisive, incorruptible, and competent, to improve the lives of the citizenry,» Mrs. Akufo - Addo, who is sometimes addressed by some NPP elements as «First Lady In - Waiting,» said.

At the heart of the spending review is an idea so daft no competent person could ever countenance it.

He said he will assemble competent people who will serve in various government positions if he is voted as President at the December 7 polls.

At the moment, the only person competent to come in would have been Seriki, and there is none.

Dr Papa Kwesi Nduom, Leader and Founder of the Progressive People's Party (PPP) said at the weekend that the country needs competent and visionary leaders who could turn the dwindling fortunes of the nation around.

In April around 25 % of people associated Labour with being competent, the figure has now settled at around 17 %.

«These are historically underserved communities, and we are bringing services to people where they live, at organizations they trust, and that are culturally competent.»

«Looking back at my federal career since 1993, I suppose I was a fairly competent, well - tuned in person, but I really didn't know how to function as a Member of Parliament effectively,» he confesses.

When I see someone stumble at that juncture, it is usually a highly competent technical person who for some reason is convinced that going to management is his or her only choice to move up in the organization.

I have found... that highly competent, motivated people require little direct supervision from the top, and I expect that would be the case at the USGS.

«I have found... that highly competent, motivated people require little direct supervision from the top, and I expect that would be the case at the USGS,» Reilly said.

The puzzle became, What's the difference between people who are merely competent and those who are great at what they do in medicine?

One might think that after years of seeing people at their worst, mental health workers would harbor negative attitudes about mental illness, perhaps associating people with mental health issues as less competent or dangerous.

The Sectional Committee may likewise recommend reports on particular topics and departments of science, to be drawn up as occasion permits, by competent persons, and presented at subsequent meetings.

«It seems that people who cry are seen as less competent persons in general,» says Niels van de Ven, associate professor in marketing at Tilburg University in the Netherlands and one of the authors of the study.

However at its crux, Dark Void is an average third person shooter that does not really offer this genre anything new in terms of content, it's competent but nothing too flashy.

The Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations 1998 (LOLER) states that lifts must be inspected at least every six months and weight tested annually by a competent person.

So, outcome - based monitoring should be directed at whether the evaluations that IDEA requires are performed on time, by competent and disinterested people, in an unbiased way, and with resulting application to the student's educational program and placement.

The Health and Safety at Work Regulations require a competent person to carry out the inspection and maintenance of extinguishers.

At Journey School, literacy goes beyond the traditional meaning to also include people who are mathematically competent, scientifically and technologically adept.

The LB Works Gallardo by LB Performance comes as a complete kit at $ 23,000 according to a price list on the Liberty Walk Japanese website, with a new front bumper, front diffuser, side sills, rear diffuser, version 3 rear wing and naturally four wide fenders... no painting, no mounting included, and I think installing those wide fenders will once again require some cutting into the original wheel arches, and that's an action you shouldn't take lightly if you don't have a workshop with competent people.

The staff at Smith Publicity are, hands down, the most professional, competent, positive, sweet, caring, and downright fun people I've ever had the pleasure of working with.

If so, that's a leg up, because it presumes the trad pub did some diligence and the person's at least marginally competent.

We want the business to be one (a) that we can understand; (b) with favorable long - term prospects; (c) operated by honest and competent people; and (d) available at a very attractive price.»

I worked as an employee, a 24, and Finra Rep, at three BDs that approved the Model Portfolios without submitting them to Finra by the competent compliance person just reading the rules and coming up with a list of things that needed to happen to get them approved.

... any county with a population of 200,000 or more may regulate or prohibit the running at large of dogs within said county, and cause such dogs as may be running at large to be impounded... Any person, firm or corporation who violates any rule or regulation... shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished as provided by the laws of this state in any court of competent jurisdiction, provided that in the case of continuing offenses, each day on which the offense occurs shall constitute a separate offense.

All Club members are made aware of the condition and the importance of checking for it's presence in newly - born puppies by at least two competent persons.

After sailing, dock in Algeciras port (which is not the third world) two ferries almost at the same time and disembarked approximately 500 cars with 2,000 people on board, spanish authorities competent (or incompetent?)

Me, I know that I don't feel competent to judge among them; but what I do know is that I shouldn't need to bone up on this, for my own vote at least — there are people whose judgment I trust, who have far more expertise, either themselves or via their own contacts.

The default inputs for population growth rate, GDP per capita growth rate, emissions intensity per capita, fossil fuel reserves, etc. are variables in the model and people who are competent at driving these models can change them.

«Engineering school takes the sensible approach and they flunk out half the class, realizing that some people will never be competent at math.

I don't look at Mann's because many people already have gone over it with a fine comb, because the data is not readily available, because I'm not competent to judge some of the issues [are you?]