Sentence examples for competent alternative from inspiring English sources

In Denver, however, Mr. Romney presented himself as an acceptable and competent alternative.

The Booker, he declared, casting off from the shores of reason, showed "greater transparency" and was a far more "competent" alternative.

It is equally fitting that this is fast becoming the more significant award, appearing an ever more competent alternative to the Nobel.

Schools Secretary Ed Balls has written to school governors urging them to consider sending heads home for the SATs week and bring in a "competent" alternative to administer the tests.

Steve Watkin,from Leeds, said he would ignore an instruction to go home and insist any "competent" alternative was given a Criminal Records Bureau check and had a passport.

For Romney, that's a far less devastating attack than others he might have faced – and what's more, it actually dovetails perfectly with his planned general election campaign, in which he wants to be perceived as the competent alternative to Barack Obama's failed attempt at revolutionary change.

The bottom line is that NEEO offers a competent, intelligent alternative the big dog on the block, Logitech's Harmony system.

There has been an assumption that students can learn effectively away from the clinical environment [ 44] and can be signed off as competent in alternative settings such as a classroom or a simulated environment.

At his best, Mr Romney should be able to offer America a competent centre-right alternative to Mr Obama (and drag the latter back towards the ignored middle).

However, other rodents and their ectoparasites have been implicated as alternative competent reservoirs and vectors of R. typhi, respectively (1, 5 ).

It means providing a competent opposition, with sensible alternative policies, and restoring traditional party discipline.There will be tempting alternatives to boring old Majorism: populism, Euroscepticism, pledges of huge tax cuts and promises not just of less spending and limits to government, but of the Utopia of a minimalist state.