Sentence examples for competent at explaining from inspiring English sources

Apart from Northern Ireland, I have never been to a place where people are so competent at explaining their problems to outsiders.

Hill, Heaney and Muldoon have attracted competent criticism explaining their achievements, so they have painlessly passed into university syllabuses.

Despite its simplicity in enzymatic reaction kinetics, it proved to be competent in explaining the data.

All students were competent in explaining systems of differential equations in plain language by the final project.

Our young, competent waitress explained that it is not always available except on weekends.

I grew from a competent-at-best sports writer to a competent-at-least senior managing editor who wrote about music, mostly hip-hop.

Out for a meal in Leicester Square for my mother's birthday earlier in the summer, our waiter was not only competent, but took the time to have a laugh with us and - most impressively - responded well to my dad's inevitable attempt at banter (explaining to the Geordie, in his best Newcastle accent, just how much we loved watching Ant and Dec as children).

"Mothers are less likely to be hired for jobs, to be perceived as competent at work or to be paid as much as their male colleagues with the same qualifications," Claire Cain Miller explained last year in the New York Times, citing an extensive 15-year study that showed women's pay decreased 4percentt for each child they had.

Friendly waiters, quietly competent at lunch, a bit scattered at dinner when the place is busy.

Almost all of the children were at least minimally competent at this, too.

Maxime proved more competent at employment, when ordered to find it to rescue the family finances.