Sentence examples for beacon of competence from inspiring English sources

It is seen as a beacon of competence and probity in an infrastructure industry that is vital but troubled.

But most of us accept the argument that the carnage of the Somme was in part due to the revisionist historical dictum that our troops were lions led by donkeys – that the flower of British youth died in the mud of Flanders and the Somme, and in the seas off Jutland, because of leadership issues that make RBS and G4S seem beacons of managerial competence.

These are matters of competence and leadership.

I lost my sense of competence.

Size was no guarantee of competence.

It is more a question of competence.

"There are clearly defined areas of competence.

My record of competence isn't great.

Call it the issue of competence.

Science falls outside my sphere of competence.

"They're afraid of competence," she said.