Sentence examples for competent though from inspiring English sources

There is every reason to believe that the Guantánamo military authorities are serially breaching medical ethics in forcibly feeding dozens of mentally competent (though clearly desperate) detainees.

Victor J. Menezes, Citicorp's former president, is regarded as a competent, though not stellar, manager.

The program generally was competent though present ed with little excitement.

The cast is otherwise competent, though not always wisely matched to the roles.

Desserts are competent, though you might bypass them for some of the great cheeses.

And the Afghan Army is increasingly competent, though still relatively small.

Nevertheless, he was an outstanding leader of men and a competent general, though, in the end, not such a successful admiral as the experienced Agrippa.

With all of that [new data, better models, and more competent analysis], though, the facts remain there are uncertainties around the climate, climate change, why it's changing, what the principal drivers of climate change are".

Ivy was affectionate, exuberant, and highly competent; at times, though, she had the air of an abandoned child.

With the acquisition of experience, Straw was to develop into a solid and competent foreign secretary, though, as the French say, he did not invent gunpowder.

Dr. Patricia Adair Gowaty of the University of Georgia has found that female bluebirds that signal their neediness, even incompetence, to their mates end up getting comparatively more help from the husband than do those females that seem fit and competent -- though as yet there is no evidence that the helpless act increases a female's reproductive success.