Upon his return to the astronaut corps in Houston, he played a key role in training Apollo crews to be geologic observers when they were in lunar orbit and competent geologic field workers when they were on the lunar surface.

To be accepted by most scientists, several impartial, competent observers should agree on what is observed.

Though Wen has since earned a reputation as a competent administrator known for his suppleness and discretion, similar to his fourth-generation colleague Hu Jintao, observers have cited Wen's personal opinions as difficult to discern in contrast to his relatively outspoken predecessor.

Yet it was reckoned by competent observers that, at the height of the Terror, the Jacobins themselves could not command a force of more than 3000 men in Paris.

He directed almost every penny he could spare, after procuring the bare necessaries of existence, to the acquisition of philological, as well as scientific and philosophical tomes-and with an income that never till the last few years, we believe, exceeding £ 50, collected a library of rare and profound works, valued, by competent judges at from £ 1300 to £ 1500.

However, one should consult a competent rabbi if an unusually pressing situation arises, as some authorities believe that performing mitzvot through electronically reproduced sound is preferable to not performing them at all.

I do not know what the competent bodies think, but I believe he did not commit serious crimes.

This means that I can only be successful in cooperation with strong and competent publishers who do their job as professionally as I believe I do mine.

Nevertheless, I believe that you now are competent to design exceedingly good buildings.

A very competent horseman, he comes to work at Follyfoot after his previous employer, the Squire, refuses to believe he wasn't involved in an attack on his horses.

Proof of success is dismissed as luck, timing, or as a result of deceiving others into thinking they are more intelligent and competent than they believe themselves to be.

The impostor syndrome, in which competent people find it impossible to believe in their own competence, can be viewed as complementary to the Dunning – Kruger effect, in which incompetent people find it impossible to believe in their own incompetence.

They believe that any competent terminally-ill patient should have the right to choose death or refuse life-saving treatment.

if a receiver or trustee for any such partnership or corporation, duly appointed by a court of competent jurisdiction in the United States, makes an assignment of the claim, or any part thereof, with respect to which an award is made, or makes an assignment of such award, or any part thereof, payment shall be made to the assignee, as his interest may appear ; ;

Accordingly, if it is not repealed by the Congress at its present session, I shall have no alternative thereafter but to direct the Secretary of Defense to disregard the section unless a court of competent jurisdiction determines otherwise.

it is competent in the sense that it makes a coherent statement without violating the rules of the sonnet form, but it is entirely undistinguished and entirely unlike Hardy.

Science is fully competent to deal with any element of experience which arises from an object in space and time.

There is fear in the fifties as his title suggests and as his competent drawings show.

Mr. White, who is only a competent novelist, is a brilliant reporter.

If a defendant has been convicted and can prove that his lawyer did not adequately handle his case and that there is a reasonable probability that the result of the trial would have been different had the lawyer given competent representation, he is entitled to a new trial.

Although Doubleday achieved minor fame as a competent combat general with experience in many important Civil War battles, he is more widely remembered as the supposed inventor of the game of baseball, in Elihu Phinney's cow pasture in Cooperstown, New York, in 1839.

On the battlefield, it is probably fair to say, Charles was comparable in skill and style to Sir Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington-quite conservative and yet exceedingly competent.

Sometimes this is referred to as " hornbook law " meaning treatise or textbook, often relied upon as authoritative, competent, and generally accepted in the field of Canadian law.

Because bipolar disorder can have a high rate of both under-diagnosis and misdiagnosis, it is often difficult for individuals with the condition to receive timely and competent treatment.

This is a crude caricature of a highly competent general who authored Army Regulation 300 ( Troop Leadership ) in 1933, the primary tactical manual of the German Army in World War II, and under whose direction the first three panzer divisions were created in 1935, the largest such force in the world of the time.

In southern Europe, the Cretaceous is usually a marine system consisting of competent limestone beds or incompetent marls.

The SBSTTA is a committee composed of experts from member governments competent in relevant fields.

Cardinals have in canon law a " privilege of forum " ( i. e., exemption from being judged by ecclesiastical tribunals of ordinary rank ): only the pope is competent to judge them in matters subject to ecclesiastical jurisdiction ( cases that refer to matters that are spiritual or linked with the spiritual, or with regard to infringement of ecclesiastical laws and whatever contains an element of sin, where culpability must be determined and the appropriate ecclesiastical penalty imposed ).

CBAP's are acknowledged as competent individuals performing a role which is increasingly recognized as a vital component of any successful project.

Generally, the first CERT team member arriving on the scene becomes team leader, and is the designated Incident Commander ( IC ) until the arrival of someone more competent.

Examples might be which spouse is more competent for a particular task or function ; which has better access to it ; or if they decide both are similarly competent and have comparable access, they might make the decision based on who prefers that function or task, or conversely, which of them dislikes it less than the other.

The SE may transfer its registered office within the Community without dissolving the company in one Member State in order to form a new one in another Member State, however, such a transfer is subject to the provisions of 8 which require, inter alia, the drawing up of a transfer proposal, a report justifying the legal and economic aspects of the transfer and the issuing, by the competent authority in the member state in which the SE is registered, of a certificate attesting to the completion of the required acts and formalities.

We are tempted to blame others for our problems rather than look them straight in the face and realize they are of our own making and possible of solution only by ourselves with the help of desperately needed, enlightened, competent leaders.

Two-to eight-cell-stage embryos are competent for making chimeras, since at these stages of development, the cells in the embryos are not yet committed to give rise to any particular cell lineage, and could give rise to the inner cell mass or the trophectoderm.

Nomograms flourished in many different contexts for roughly 75 years because they allowed quick and accurate computations before the age of pocket calculators, making such calculations available to people who did not normally use slide rules, and who didn ’ t know algebra or were not competent at substituting numbers into equations to obtain results.

These were to be sent to Fellows at least 14 days before the general meeting, with the intent being to ensure the election of competent Officers by making it readily apparent what existing Officers were doing.

Finally, the endosomes lose RAB5 and acquire RAB7, making them competent for fusion with lysosomes.

Despite being a good friend, Carl can be very self-centered and workaholic at times – in The Devil Wears Nada, Carl becomes the new supervisor of Homer's sector ( for being the most competent of them ), and starts to abuse his position by forcing Homer to become his assistant, making him do even the mostly simple and unnecessary tasks ( much to Homer's dismay ).

He proved himself as competent at right-back and centre-back after making his debut in a 7 – 0 home win over Barnsley in the FA Premier League on 25 October 1997, and made a further seven league appearances in 1997 – 98 as United finished second in the league, but he managed just five more league appearances before joining Division One promotion chasers Barnsley on loan on 19 November 1999, scoring twice in 28 league games as they qualified for the playoffs but lost 4 – 2 to Ipswich Town in the final at Wembley Stadium.

She started making speeches when she was 6 years old and by time she was 12, she was a competent orator.

It was all at once, just after Cooke had returned to his country-land, that he began making his inquiry into the issue of locating competent craftsmen to do the work from the telegraph designs he generated.

Although Atkins's case and ruling may have saved other mentally retarded inmates from the death penalty, a jury in Virginia decided in July 2005 that Atkins was intelligent enough to be executed on the basis that the constant contact he had with his lawyers had intellectually stimulated him and raised his IQ above 70, making him competent to be put to death under Virginia law.

On January 4, 2007 the U. S. Federal Trade Commission announced that the marketers of TrimSpa had agreed to pay a settlement of $ 1. 5 million in response to an FTC complaint of making unsupported claims in advertisements, and were also prohibited " from making any claims about the health benefits, performance, efficacy, safety, or side effects of TrimSpa, Hoodia gordonii, or any dietary supplement, food, drug, or health-related service or program, unless the claims are true, not misleading, and substantiated by competent and reliable scientific evidence.

All five players in the offense — including the center — should be competent at making a three point attempt, further spreading the floor.

In literature, the competent man or competent woman is a stock character who can do anything perfectly, or at least exhibits a very wide range of abilities and knowledge, making him a form of polymath.

Notable for the fact that Airi Suzuki was only nine years old at the time of the single, she gives a remarkably professional and competent performance, making her the youngest girl to appear on a Hello!

As the Italian Parliament has not coded this decision from Cassation into law, it is not possible for these children and descendants to obtain jus sanguinis citizenship, making the pertinent application before a consulate or a competent office of vital and civil records in the Italian municipalities.

A change to the role was introduced in September 2009 and the Reporter is able to make representations if the Panel is at risk of making a decision which is not, in the Reporter ’ s view, competent or procedurally correct.