More fundamentally, they claim that employers are not simply concerned with performance, but with enforcing a brand of morality; if an employee smokes a joint on the weekend, they reason, it is no concern to management as long as he performs competently come Monday.
He competently saved some shots and competently picked some out of the net.
Cameron has never looked weaker than now and so far Downing Street has handled the situation about as competently as Jeremy Corbyn's press team would in a similar bind.
But to cash in on the booming immigrant market, it certainly helps to speak Arabic and English as competently as Mr. Mourad, who said he changed his first name from Wallid to maximize his earning potential.
Nebbishes from any walk of life -- convinced that, given half a chance, they could act or write or hustle as competently as anyone -- are free to fantasize about playing out their own Sammy Glick melodrama.
But down here, on Lanai, locals worried that the inscrutable engineer remaking their island was either turning away from his creation or — worse — incapable of manning all those knobs and switches as competently as they'd believed.
Silverado handles well and accelerates briskly; not like a race car, of course, but certainly as competently as most sedans.
Especially, the chronic staff shortages, the rising need for specialized care and the maintenance of accurate patient databases, paired with challenges such as the threat of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, a rising number of uninsured patients and the increasing cost of medication need to be managed by healthcare providers as competently as possible.
This may be a step forward: China can make dull Oscar bait just as competently as the US.
Even the geography of the roads and streets is a wonder to behold, giving you the opportunity to speed around Gotham as competently as any racing game.
With a reputation for drama and a flair for making his case to the public as competently as he does to the courts, his arrival sent a wave of excitement through the press.
