What is "competences"

Usage examples of "competences".

The sum of feminine wisdom that I have just mentioned--the body of feminine devices and competences that is handed down from generation to generation of women--is, in fact, made up very largely of doctrines and expedients that infallibly appear to the average sentimental man, helpless as he is before them, as cynical and immoral.

Habermas often uses "social" in the broad sense, but here we are centering mostly on what I have called cultural, as the context will make clear: If one examines social institutions and the action competences of socialized individuals for general characteristics, one encounters the same structures of consciousness.

If it develops that here lies the optimum course, I naturally will apply my competences to the fullest degree.

These patiently and painstakingly accumulated vast acquirements and competences needed but one thing more--opportunity--to convert themselves into triumphant action.

These patiently and painstakingly accumulated vast acquirements and competences needed but one thing more--opportunity--to convert themselves into triumphal action.