competence
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In its ruling on Tuesday, the ECJ said that while marriage rules fell within each member state's competence, "countries were required to comply with EU law in exercising that competence".
From BBC
But using my cleaver has taught me a little more patience and a bit more competence.
Defeated Mid Suffolk Tory leader Suzie Morley said her party had lost its reputation for economic competence because of "what happened before Christmas".
From BBC
Reiterating the line of the attack Wednesday on social media, Ms. Haley said, “There are real questions about Joe Biden’s mental competence and even more questions about Kamala Harris’ *actual* competence.”
From Washington Times
“Economic competence mattered in electoral politics” in decades past, writes Gerald Baker, a columnist and editor at large for The Wall Street Journal.
From Washington Times
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