Sentence examples for claim to competence from inspiring English sources

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.

Recent events have compromised the government's claims to competence (the taxman lost the personal data of millions of citizens) and probity (a party-funding scandal forced the resignation of Labour's general secretary).

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.

Does this undermine his claim to economic competence? Brown says you have to reform the banks.

The legitimacy won by military victories more than a generation ago is fading into distant memory, and Vietnamese leaders' claim to economic competence is increasingly difficult to sustain.

The Conservative government's claim to economic competence won't truly be credible until these, and other structural issues with the UK economy, are addressed.

By bashing banks and energy companies, he has lost the love of business upon which New Labour's seminal claim to economic competence was founded.

But on a day that saw unemployment rise to its highest level since Labour came to power in 1997, David Cameron said the ­government had lost any claim to ­economic competence".Everyone can see what an utter mess this Labour ­government and this Labour prime ­minister have made of the British economy.

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