Sentence examples for competent opposition from inspiring English sources

The new cabinet put honest and competent opposition leaders in charge of education, health, housing and child welfare.

Increased political awareness, coupled with a seemingly competent opposition, has energised the electorate and led to frenzied campaigning across the country.

If we could only find a halfway competent opposition, the very populist forces they have exploited and misled so grievously would turn on them.

The grand coalitions have their advantages, but few governments remain popular forever, and when they run out of ideas or are beset by scandal, few competent opposition parties stand ready to replace them.

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.

We must point to the basket case that is Britain this weekend – without a coherent government to rule, a competent opposition to take over or a clue how it will it get through the next week – and say that this is how populism always ends.

"What if we win?" frets a fourth.The Republicans are so unpopular that any semi-competent opposition party should be sauntering to victory in the mid-term elections in November.

Yet respected and competent former opposition leaders now run important ministries like health, education and finance.

It is possible that the credibility of CRNAs and their record of safe and competent practice fuels opposition to the CRNA role by the ASA.

Mr. Karzai must also reach out to members of the opposition, choosing competent technocrats for senior jobs.

By comparison, his Conservative challenger, Stephen Harper, is an unknown quantity, untested by previous high office and until recently written off as a not especially competent leader of the opposition.