Sentence examples for a display of competence from inspiring English sources
I guess the bar has been lowered to about six inches from the ground for the Bush administration if making two good appointments constitutes a "display of competence".
The calculation was made long ago: the risk to Mr Cameron of looking slippery in ducking debates was less than the twin dangers of Nigel Farage courting the disgruntled under the PM's nose and Ed Miliband, unfiltered by a hostile press, surprising audiences with a display of competence and charm.
Discreetly polished and well-tended nails like the kind worn by Michelle Obama, Sheryl Sandberg and Oprah are a display of general competence — something closer to a symptom of good health than a strictly semiotic statement.
She also blasted the Deficit Commission -- which I will write up as a display of "accidental competence".
1.41pm GMT 11 min: 'England are playing some tidy football,' exclaims the BBC's John Motson, shocked by a display of incontrovertible Anglo-competence.
(F, G, I, 65 89) if joking stories about the strategic use of an 'older' identity was one approach to depicting competent presentations of the self, another was the confident display of competence on public transport.
Hughes plays a decent forward defensive against Anderson and is so unnerved by this unusual display of competence that he completely forgets about the ball that might be bouncing back towards stumps.
A display of toothpaste tubes.
But, he said: "Behind that display of decisive competence that you show the world, sometimes there's a lonely man who's hurting.
Yet despite this display of theoretical competence, there is no empirical evidence of non-kin cooperation in a situation, natural or contrived, where the payoffs are known to conform to a Prisoner's Dilemma".
