Sentence examples for competent thing from inspiring English sources

Westwood is about the only competent thing in this, and even then he spends a lot of the time sumo wrestling on the bonnet of a knackered Suzuki or sitting in a darkened room with a load of wide charmless mechanics asking them what tyres they are going to put on, and even in such a tight and constrained situation he is this weird lightning rod of long-limbed charisma.

One longtime observer of the office, who would speak only anonymously because of the sensitivity of the matter, said: "I would think that people would be looking to see, O.K., is this going to be kind of a reasonable process that instills confidence that there has been a competent investigation, things have proceeded fairly, and people can see that justice has been done".

In other words, if you believe at all that they are not competent in some things, or all things they do, your trust in them will not be solid.

A Guy Who Is Capable of Doing Something I want to date someone who is competent at one thing, at least.

Hugo, the men's cologne from Hugo Boss? "Dull but competent lavender-oakmoss thing, suggestive of a day filled with strategy meetings".

". "Imagine," she writes, "understanding the Web, feeling competent to make things, to change what exists and create things that meet your particular needs.

But to assume that these things would be meaningless to people creates an artificial famine that makes people less and less competent in these things that they could otherwise enjoy and being enriched by.

Ms. Ross is a highly competent person until things don't go exactly as she expects.

But UN officials argue that the Iranian government is competent to handle things through its own networks.

"Coach Riley said that what players want," Van Gundy recalls, "are coaches who were four things: competent, sincere, reliable and trustworthy.

Importantly, his progress as an artist comes entwined with learning to "live in this language" of Spanish, with having a more honest relationship with Teresa (formidably competent in all things) and with abandoning his emotional isolationism.