formal competence
Frequency: 6.58.1 per million words
Refers to official or legally recognized power to deal with something.
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Examples (10)
- The committee has no formal competence in this matter.
- Only the high court has formal competence to hear such cases.
- This issue falls outside our formal competence.
- The agency's formal competence extends to regulatory oversight.
- We must establish formal competence before proceeding.
- The board lacks formal competence in financial audits.
- Questions of formal competence arose during the hearing.
- The tribunal's formal competence is clearly defined by law.
- They challenged the court's formal competence to rule.
- Areas of formal competence must be clearly delineated.