Sentence examples for competence contest from inspiring English sources

The PM has signalled his determination to stay in the top job, saying Australians elected him "to clean up Labor's mess" and government was "a competence contest" not a popularity contest, but Lenore Taylor writes that "ominously for the PM, the Queensland result shows that when voters are sufficiently angry with the incumbent they are prepared to risk an alternative leader".

"I accept that we need to learn from the difficulties that we've had, but in the end, government is not a popularity contest, it is a competence contest.

"In the end government is not a popularity contest, it's a competence contest," Mr Abbott said as he faced plunging opinion polls and a staggering loss for his Liberals in Queensland elections.

For the first time in a poll voters will not just elect a president, but also 245,000 legislative representatives vying for more than 20,000 seats - so it is going to be about much more than a personality and competence contest between these two men.

It is a race for Afghan government competence and a contest for respect and for trust, in a place where all are in short supply.

"In terms of confidence and competence, I don't think anyone would contest the qualities in particular of Mr. Pérol".

No! Yes!  8.34am GMT 13th over: Australia 76-0 (Finch 49, Warner 20) Target 270 Australia are displaying a composed competence that is faintly alarming; this just isn't a contest, or anything approximating to the same.

The 68-year-old adds that despite democracy sometimes being mistaken for a "contest of popularity, rather than a test of competence" those elected must remember to work "for the benefit of all and not just his supporters".

She and her team assumed that a presidential contest fought on the single issue of Jeremy Corbyn's competence would deliver her a three-figure majority.

Mr. Rosen, though he used the catch phrase about somebody else, captured its meaning well in his book "The Romantic Generation," when he wrote of Berlioz that "few contest his greatness: what is in question is his competence".

If more complex family structures indeed induce a better social competence, fish raised with older family members should more often win these contests.