Sentence examples for competent effort from inspiring English sources

The best opener we sampled, clean, shiny black mussels in a bowl of light tomato broth, proved a plain but competent effort.

B The paper fails to meet all of these criteria, but still meets at least one of them significantly and is a competent effort on all fronts.

It's a competent effort, somewhere between Cormac McCarthy and Donald E Westlake, and though the pay-off is rather diluted by our awareness of Austin Wright and his issues, it remains satisfyingly grotesque.

B- The paper does not meet all the standard criteria to the expected extent and does not meet any of them to an impressive extent, but is a competent effort.

As he stood in front of his locker late Monday afternoon, Dillon Gee good-naturedly accepted that the brilliance of the Mets' starting pitching over the weekend had made the very competent effort he had just produced look sort of mediocre.

Laramee went on to call the game "a competent effort, but is essentially dry and uninspired".

The rate of HIV infection is low, reflecting competent prevention efforts.

Whereas doing what your brain is merely good at means you can be competent with great effort.

We know little about coral reproduction at MCE depths, including whether MCE corals are reproductively competent, how their reproductive effort changes with depth, and whether that reproductive effort results in successful recruitment or larval exchange22.

Yet with a new sports minister in place - a politician considered to be spotlessly honest and competent - and the efforts to bring law and order to Rio's favelas winning widespread praise in the Brazilian media, the country is now surprisingly upbeat about efforts ahead of 2014.

They tend to consult with less competent practitioners who make less effort [ 47] or who operate in the largely-unregulated private sector.