Sentence examples for anyone competent from inspiring English sources

In the run-up to the election of 2004, many wondered whether Indonesians would be able to organise a fair and peaceful vote, let alone elect anyone competent.

Greek scholarship was so rare in this period that in the 870s Anastasius the Librarian was unable to find anyone competent to edit his translation of a text from Greek, and had to do it himself.

Indeed, there is probably no single statistical observation here that will not be clear to a skilled data analyst (or, indeed, that could not be explained to anyone competent in middle-school-level math).

And will anyone be competent and courageous enough to lead us through it?

In theory then, the idea is that I could give a CRF to anyone vaguely competent in psychological research methods, and they would be able to run my experiment as I originally intended.

Hire anyone remotely competent who comes in the office, they say, and figure out a way to create revenue.

This trick is much practised at home by my sons, who when asked to do the washing up take care always to do it so badly that it becomes a serious disincentive to asking them to do it again - especially if there is anyone more competent around to do it instead.

Instead, the tasks and skills that form that repertoire should be examined and credentialed individually and anyone deemed competent to perform a particular task should be enabled to do so.

"Anyone who is competent and qualified … they are never going to win.

He said: "Roy Hodgson is as good as anyone, he's competent, he's a good manager and he's proven at international level, although the expectations with Switzerland and Finland are not what they are at England.

When jobs are dished out for reasons other than competence, the state grows less competent, as anyone who has wrestled with Indian or Nigerian officialdom can attest.