But with competent officials beginning to return to ministries and national pride stirring in opposition to occupation, the question of when to give power to Iraqis has become central.
These reforms must begin with a competent, qualified teacher in every class, in every grade.
Such was the case at Sutton Hoo in Suffolk in 1939, when work begun by a competent amateur was taken over by a team of experts who were able to uncover a great Anglo-Saxon burial boat and its treasure, without doubt the most remarkable archaeological find ever made in Britain.
That passage should have followed the sentence beginning "The book is a competent cut-and-paste job" and should have read: "As the chapters march through the decades, Mr. Levenstein sets the stage with a few cultural or political generalities, and then gets down to the business of stringing quotations together, often making the same point a half-dozen times.
And while medical educators are beginning to catch up with the demand for trans-competent doctors, there's still a long way to go.
In addition, young people with a lack of competent behavior were found to improve more than children and adolescents who were fairly competent to begin with.
However, while the cambium was beginning to form, it was not yet differentiated or active in competent hypocotyls from 21-day-old seedlings [ 10, 17, 19, 20].
The precocity of his gift for drawing was so manifest that while he was still at a tender age, his father, José Ruiz, a teacher in the local School of Arts and Crafts, began giving him highly competent academic art instruction.
For one thing, whether the project at hand is fiction or reportage, the novelist's interest in the situation wanes at that precise point when the reporter begins to consider himself competent: when the place is understood".
"I'd like to see her have competent staff, begin to run a tight schedule, pick up on her fund-raising and take it to Bill Nelson in a way that starts impressing those of us who have been around for a while," Mr. Cardenas said.
