core competence
[ U ] LAW
the power of a person, business, court, or government to deal with something or take legal decisions:
sb's competence to do sthThere are concerns about his competence to stand trial.
At present, national authorities have competence in these cases.

Examples of competence

competence
Research into semantic skills focuses less on the qualitative aspects of linguistic competence than does research into phonological and morphosyntactic skills.
Two determinants had a unique contribution to the prediction of symbolic competence: maternal depression and parent sensitivity.
What kinds of opportunities are there for developing symbolic competence?
Indeed, symbolic competence is the ability to perform and construct various historicities in dialogue with others.
Forthcoming procedures for the analysis of electroacoustic music should derive from the synthesis of top-down and bottom-up views derived from different competences.
Early training programs in cultural competence tended to rely on categorical constructs that lumped patients together by their "typical" cultural values, customs, and beliefs.
But they certainly show that grammatical competence does not parallel linguistic performance and that processing tasks impede performance.
In order for cooperation to be rational, participants must have a certain degree of confidence in each other's competence to complete their assigned tasks.
In this study it is unclear whether marital violence, family upheaval, or homelessness accounts for the observed deficits in children's social competence.
The reasons for such reduced developmental competence are unclear.
Many reports point out that the food varied between farms depending on wealth, thrift and the housewife's competence.
These findings were corroborated by a number of laboratory-based measures of grammatical competence including estimated mean length of utterances, verbal comprehension, and repetition of sentences.
The goal of the task is to assess a person's language competence, language expression (production/performance), and proficiency.
But, in fact, his input and output deficits match one another very precisely, suggesting a deficit in underlying competence.
Thus, the difficulties are located at the representation or competence level.
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Collocations withcompetence

competence

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academic competence
Thus, academiccompetence may moderate the effects of changes in social skills on antisocial behavior.
clinical competence
The assessment of a student during the clinical practica focuses heavily on demonstration of clinical competence, resulting in certification through a competency-based national examination.
cognitive competence
These are some of the special conditions that stretch our ability to understand how languages and environments interact in developing children's linguistic and cognitivecompetence.
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