Sentence examples for competent over from inspiring English sources

Sharp curves on off ramps produced the predictable body lean, but handling was competent over all.

(This seems to parallel a change in "Parks and Recreation," whose protagonist, played by Amy Poehler, became markedly more acute and competent over the course of its first seasons).

Tamahori, director of Along Came a Spider, does a competent, if over-fussy job, but the pace flags in the showdown in Iceland (the country, not the supermarket).

It also ponders the difficulties of an organisation in which the incompetent are rarely sacked and the competent are over-stretched and ill-rewarded.

They keep their thoughts hidden to stay safe, acting agreeable, ultra-competent or over-controlling.

I have seen talented, competent women passed over for promotions.

Participants in the trial will have to be sober and competent to take over controls at any time.

The prison began to improve when a competent governor took over and introduced a programme of changes which the staff followed enthusiastically.

Other controversial parts of the act include allowing a police officer "not authorized by rank or jurisdiction" to keep a person in custody for six hours before a competent officer takes over and the authorization to create "village defense committees" and appoint civilians as special police officers.

The eternally competent Pete Tong took over and the Yuma's four-on-the-floor order was restored.

But the empire's momentum stalled when the second generation, a collection of bright, competent managers, took over the companies, Nash said.