Secondly, instruments tend to dwell on deficits in performance rather than levels of higher competence.

Star Fleet engineering did such a fine job of recruiting young men and women of high technical competence, he thought bitterly.

The second was his insistence, not so common in his day, that any poetry worthy of serious attention had to display high technical competence.

Finally, they are examined for high competence in the portion of the industry they represent.

The higher competence of the Caledonian basement rocks made them more resistant to erosion.

The general level of high competence and low daring probably reflects the fact that commercial photographers aren't used to so much liberty.

No single poem can give him a chief place, though here and there, especially in the last, he gives hints of the highest competence.

On the contrary, it has been marked by high competence.

Can the state require such high competence without paying for the extra instruction and social services needed to raise every student to that level?

This is because women are attributed higher competence in such situations.