Linguistic competence is inborn, not acquired.

Supported standards

We also need much more competence of civil society leaders.

How would you describe your competence yourself?

Standards go down.

lowering the standards.

By Gitano standards.

Material standards of living were never higher.

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?

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

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

The way tourists dress offends local standards of propriety.

Thats very important. its about high levels of standards

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.

Howard is a man of a certain degree of intellectual standards.

They had the standards of, we call them, conforming loans.

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.

How do we improve the living standards of five billion people?

What they can bring to the table in terms of standards

It allows you to create the illusion of competence, the illusion of simplicity, and most destructively, the illusion of understanding.

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

And it was as if through the standards of my Western life,

So at this point, it's primarily an issue of cost and standards.

And you're pretty rich by the standards of the world at large.

Because according to my standards, you fit the model of drugseeking behavior.

And we as citizens, as we go through this experience of the kind of, the crisis of confidence, crisis of competence, crisis of legitimacy,

Statistics indicate that our living standards have risen.

This school sets high moral standards for pupils.

Which, by chimpanzee standards, is very good indeed.