1.   Still, they had been promoted primarily for their technical competence, not their management or interpersonal skill.

2.   The traditional approach to the training and selection of headteachers has been on the basis of technical competence reinforced by practical experience.

3.   An individual may possess the technical competence to steal, buy or manufacture the weapons he or she needs for a terrorist purpose.

4.   A. The view of quality that is taken in the hospital is really limited to technical competence and, more recently, to superficial attention to the interpersonal process.

5.   Given the high standard of technical competence in the period, this figure comes as a bit of shock.

6.   In addition to technical competence, people skills will be at a premium, the study found.

7.   In the Navy, promotions rest on merit, earned by accumulating points for continuing education, physical fitness, technical competence, demonstrated leadership and other achievements.

8.   Instead, it must award the license based on technical competence.

9.   Successful contractors -- women and men -- are able to combine their technical competence with good people skills and business savvy.

10.   But these rules cannot by themselves produce high-quality bank supervision if their enforcement is not managed by a central bank with technical competence and political autonomy.