Sentence examples for does a competent from inspiring English sources
Asked to judge Mr. Morris's work in recent campaigns, Mr. Garth said, unenthusiastically: "I think Hank does a competent job".
Tamahori, director of Along Came a Spider, does a competent, if over-fussy job, but the pace flags in the showdown in Iceland (the country, not the supermarket).
That seems like a considerable underestimate of the chances — I don't have much confidence that Wall Street does a competent job of pricing in political risk.
The engine is willing, but doesn't break into a jubilant harmony when prodded; the suspension does a competent job of soaking up bumps, though without the polished, precise feel of more developed competitors.
Robert Cuccioli, best known as the title characters in "Jekyll & Hyde" on Broadway, is always charming and does a competent impersonation of Maurice Chevalier, the dapper and romantic French song-and-dance man, but that's as far as it goes.
What were your initial fears about the impact of the rules as first outlined by the S.E.C.? A. Our biggest concern was that the rule would be a de facto requirement that we dismantle our firm and sell off the consultancies and other competencies that really are needed to do a competent audit.
"Can I say we all feel we're doing a competent job?" Vanbiesbrouck said.
The judges identified two areas where the MTF had manifestly failed to do a competent job.
As the Staten Island district attorney for seven years, Mr. Donovan has done a competent job.
He's offering the mundane possibility of a government that just gets on with doing a competent job.
Roe Wilson, the Harris County assistant district attorney who is handling the Graham case, said: "I think Ron did a competent job.
