"The court has determined, by clear and convincing evidence, that she made a competent decision not to be kept alive in this kind of situation."

It was the first officer's responsibility to take action if the captain was not making competent decisions.

He said that the requirements for accrediting inspectors and contractors were not stringent enough to assure competent decisions.

For the uncontrolled acceleration of scientific, technological and social change subverts the power of the individual to make sensible, competent decisions about his own destiny.

His wasp stings were paining him and he didn't feel he could make a competent decision when he could only see out of one eye.

These analyses allowed more competent decisions to be made regarding the watersheds as well as management of treated effluent discharged to the Truckee River.

S. Stowell Symes, director of school services for the council, said the programs were intended to give millions of students "the tools to be competent decision makers throughout their lives."

The Executive Committee had included in its 1891 report statistics to counter the particular charge that students were being pressured at so young an age that they could not make competent decisions.

It is, therefore, unacceptable that attempts are being made to subordinate control of military airspace and, in general, to define new 'functional blocks' in the absence of a competent decision by the Member States.