We're secure in our competences.
"Sand Doom"
William Fitzgerald Jenkins
Some of you are blessed with competences and some of the competences are greater than others.
"A Little Book for Christmas"
Cyrus Townsend Brady
It splits into four handsome properties; each of these into four good inheritances; these, again, into scanty competences for four ancient maidens,-with whom it is best the family should die out, unless it can begin again as its great-grandfather did.
"The Complete PG Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr."
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist)