Sentence examples for claim of competence from inspiring English sources

If the mayor is going to make a claim of competence, let's look at that more closely.

For sure, Mr. Giannoulias was artful in his Pavlovian, post-victory response to questions about his years at Broadway Bank, the source of his wealth and claim of competence.

Americans love the claim of competence but have learned from Hoover not to trust the people who believe in little but getting the job done right.

The decline in retail sales in March of 0.5 per cent caused an immediate drop in the pound and certainly did not help the absurd Tory claims of competence.

Instead it looks as if it has been dreamed up to change the subject after the UK's modest growth figure cast a big shadow over those claims of competence.

The League's claims of economic competence are beginning to look irrelevant.

The Republican claim to competence had been squandered during the Bush years, along with its rationale of limited government.

"Bloomberg is the businessman mayor, that's been his big claim to competence, and here they're whacking him where he is the strongest," said Maurice Carroll, director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute.

A strong recovery could lessen Labour's claims to competence and strengthen those of the coalition.

It's actually riskier for a woman to project confidence than for a man -- her credentials and claims to competence are more precarious, and her mistakes are more likely to be interpreted as a sign of fundamental failing.

Although the VA has made progress in reducing the backlog since March, it's been largely through a massive infusion of overtime work and the slowing pace of new claims, rather than a sudden burst of competence in the department.