Sentence examples for competent said from inspiring English sources

"He's extremely competent," said a defense lawyer who has worked against Mr. Dion.

"Even his critics consider him very, very competent," said José Miguel Vivanco, director of Human Rights Watch/Americas.

"She's such an elegant woman and she comes across so competent," said Anna, 48, a financial worker who was eating lunch in Bryant Park and would not provide her last name.

"Why aren't governors standing up and saying, 'In our state, we'll devise a system where nobody will ever get into a classroom who isn't competent'?" said Dennis Van Roekel, president of the National Education Association.

"Dr. Rubenzer does clearly say she is competent," said a Harris County assistant district attorney, Joseph S. Owmby, "and does say she suffers from a serious mental disease, not a severe mental disease".

"My impression — as an external observer, and that's what I am now — is that the response has been quite competent," said Dr. Julio Frenk, a former Mexican health minister who is now dean of Harvard's School of Public Health.

"I want to be sure he's competent," he said.

People tend to like a leader they feel is economically competent," she said.

"She was clearly a competent performer," said Sig Harac, who was the concertmaster.

"How could this happen to someone so good, so competent?" he said.

The French "don't know yet if he's really competent," he said.