Sentence examples for be the only competent from inspiring English sources

After nearly a season and a half in which Tebow and Harvin appeared to be the only competent players in the Gators' offense, they finally got some help Saturday night.

But it was not so for me, as I believed that it is more correct to follow retrospectively and back to its original sources everything that has any relationship with the historical development of the artistic face of anatomy, to follow the directions that I believed were promising during my life, and this appeared to me to be the only competent way" (Hyrtl 1873).

Instead, a beleaguered president once again is sending David Petraeus to the rescue, making it appear as though he is the only competent general we have.

If I had the mindset that I'm the only competent person on my team, then I'd probably become a victim of workaholism too--and that's a scary thought.

Westwood is about the only competent thing in this, and even then he spends a lot of the time sumo wrestling on the bonnet of a knackered Suzuki or sitting in a darkened room with a load of wide charmless mechanics asking them what tyres they are going to put on, and even in such a tight and constrained situation he is this weird lightning rod of long-limbed charisma.

"The commission would have hoped to get a ringing endorsement that it is the only authority competent to handle such negotiations," said Alec Burnside, an expert in European law at the firm Linklaters in Brussels.

The PRD's schism cannot be mended "even by a saint's miracle", its founder, Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, lamented recently.All this bolsters the PRI's message that it is the only party competent to govern.

Body lice have been recognized as the only competent vector for B. quintana in humans, and poor hygienic conditions are strongly related to the occurrence of trench fever.

Just as Homer, Lenny, and Carl are celebrating their freedom from supervision, plant owner Mr. Burns arrives and chooses Carl as the new supervisor (after quickly deducing that he is the only semi-competent employee of the three).

The IR-dependent perinuclear accumulation of CED-4 appears strongest in late pachytene cells, which are the only germ cells competent to die by apoptosis.

The whole dismal affair was best summed up by a Los Alamos intelligence official who described the case as "a collusion of ineptness and political opportunism" in which "the only competent ones are Wen Ho Lee's attorneys".