Politically, he said, the loss of this "devoted and competent" public servant would be a loss for the French left, also the entire world.
Adam Lowther, of the US air force's Air University, pointed out recently on the Diplomat blog that Iran's "ministry of intelligence and national security (MOIS), Iran's espionage service, is among the most competent in the world".
The aerial sequences in Jan Sverak's gooey but competent "Dark Blue World" are as gripping in their low-tech way as any of the high-velocity aircraft scenes we're used to seeing in films.
"When a parent shifts from thinking, 'I need my child to adore me, so I'm just going to let this slide' to 'I need my child to be independent and responsible,' she has a better chance of having a child who has a mature child-parent relationship -- and who is also competent in the world".
Even though China is still a poor developing country, its state, I would argue, is the most competent in the world.
So while there may be too-few soldiers with too-old gear, they're still the most competent in the world at killing.
The deal was held up for a considerable time, first, to try to argue the old man out of his notion that there was no other competent lawyer in the world than Root, then, that failing, trying to persuade Root to violate his retirement.
Whoever ends up replacing Miliband needs to appear competent and have a world view.
Natural historians like Hunter, engaged in the systematic study of the living world, needed competent draughtsmen to record their findings.
An international study of reading in 35 countries conducted in 2001 demonstrated that English children were some of the most competent readers in the world, ranked behind Sweden and the Netherlands.
