Sentence examples for competent figures from inspiring English sources

The issue that comes up again and again is Zardari's supplanting of competent figures in favor of a tight, and isolating, circle of loyalists, friends from prison days and family members.

After a wave of angry protests erupted in the capital and across the country, the prime minister, Hamadi Jebali, who is also secretary-general of the Islamist Nahda party, condemned the murder as an "act of terrorism…against the whole of Tunisia" and said he would form a new government "of competent figures without party affiliations".

A competent figure painter — not quite Mr. Pearlstein or Mr. Freud — he entered the field when painting was simultaneously declared dead and resurrected by the market.

To the young Mr. Bromberg, they seemed to be nothing more than competent figure drawings, but Shuster seemed to be very excited about this "Superman" character that he and a friend had come up with.

There is something of an irony in Mugabe's recommendation, since the Zimbabwean leader, whom I regarded then as a strong and competent figure, was ultimately eclipsed in the southern African cosmos by the sheer magnitude of what Mandela achieved in neighbouring South Africa.

Cell surface Flag immunoreactivity decreased significantly only when Flag-tagged receptors were binding-competent (Figure 3C).

Even many Democrats were pleased that these competent, experienced figures would play a large role in the new administration.

Senators from both parties seemed eager to embrace him as a competent, reassuring figure in an otherwise chaotic Administration.

Experts described him as a competent nonpolitical figure acceptable both to the hard-line wing and to the liberal economic wing of Mr. Putin's administration -- a "liberal hawk," in the words of one commentator.

Assess if the team is competent and figure out how to get in very, very early.

Importantly, Western analysis shows much greater steady state levels of these variants in wild type cells compared with transport competent variants (Figure S3B).