She was decent, competent, conciliatory and solid.
It helps that he's already published in literary magazines and actually has a competent sort of talent, just enough to make him be read by others but not enough to actually make a name for himself; it would be nicer if anything he said actually made you believe he could write a decent, competent story.
But he has made Mr Frei, a decent and competent man, look reactionary and old (he is 67).
Mr Romney is arguably the most decent and competent man in the race, but that doesn't mean anyone's excited about his candidacy.
But decent and competent though he is, time may be running out for him even faster than it is for GM.
His party has fractured, thanks to the intervention six weeks ago, as a challenger from within, of Simba Makoni, a former finance minister whom many of Zimbabwe's black and shrinking white professional middle class see as the decent and competent face of ZANU-PF.So a bitter triangular contest has broken out.
It gave way to a caretaker government under the decent and competent Gordon Bajnai, which has stabilised the economy but lacked the political clout to make the deep reforms that Hungary needs.The publicly-owned industries, such as the clunky railways, are just one subject needing attention.
As a moderate Democrat and a standard-bearer for the more racially tolerant "new South," Carter promised a government "as good and honest and decent and competent and compassionate as its people".
They are a competent, decent bunch.
ANTHONY KING Professor of British government at Essex University Like most manias, Cleggmania was always a delusion: a decent and modestly competent second-order politician thrust by the media into the role of hero-statesman.
In the grand tradition of detective dramas, they are painted as opposing personalities – Bailey (Jones) is the hot-head, and Scott (Sharp) the more measured, thoughtful type – but essentially they are cut from a similar cloth, which is competent, decent and likable.
