Linguistic competence is inborn, not acquired.

Supported standards

How would you describe your competence yourself?

Standards go down.

lowering the standards.

By Gitano standards.

Ted doesn't have the competence to teach English.

Develop your linguistic competence as much as possible.

I do have a certain technical competence, yes.

We're looking for competence, discipline, endurance, and strength.

No, what I'm asking for is competence, okay?

He didn't meet the standards.

Living standards should be higher.

I assume you have standards.

I should have some standards.

Does not meet our standards.

Well, nothing by Dutch standards.

We also need much more competence of civil society leaders.

So we need to understand where our competence is and isn't.

The world's educational standards disappoint me.

Teaching standards and accountabilities are higher.

Japan has mileage standards up here.

The standards we set for ourselves are equal to or higher than professional standards of quality.

Material standards of living were never higher.

He is a man with no standards.

And why does exchange raise living standards?

This is even low by your standards.

Sorry if I fail your high standards.

Which is why the professional standards unit

A professional is someone who has a combination of competence, confidence and belief.

Statistics indicate that our living standards have risen.

This school sets high moral standards for pupils.

Which, by chimpanzee standards, is very good indeed.

Our innovative approach, using Web 2.0 based standards,

I'm not disputing Olivia's competence, we need people but she's also a political liability

You can't judge their works by the same standards.

He keeps harping on about declining standards in education.

The way tourists dress offends local standards of propriety.

Thats very important. its about high levels of standards

Your standards are so low, you always get lucky.

And we can lower the standards, because we find even when we do lower the standards, no one's defaulting on their mortgages.

And so then I spent a few years, 2007 through 2010, eleven, twelve, with IMS, which is a standards organization that built standards.

As one moves up the ladder, values other than technical competence are viewed with increasing suspicion.

This is a world in which there's no electricity, there's no money, there's no medical competence.

The standards for admission to this school are very high.