Sentence examples for dubious competence from inspiring English sources

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Today it is a multibillion-dollar industry, though one of dubious competence, and safeguarding the nation's computerized critical infrastructure has taken on added urgency.

So Roy O'Bannon Owen Wilsonn), a scruffy, laid-back outlaw of dubious competence, admonishes his reluctant partner, an imperial guard from the Forbidden City named Chon Wang (pronounced like John Wayne and played by the incomparable Jackie Chan).

Romney's incessant pandering, inexplicable vacillation, and dubious competence with respect to the serious act of governing has been showcased time and again during the course of this campaign.

Sensing a need for one more brassy, fast-talking kook, Bogdanovich gives Forte a bitter psychiatrist girlfriend of dubious competence, played by Jennifer Aniston with almost enough lightning eccentricity to suggest Howard Hawks (and remind you why you loved her on "Friends").

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Much as the corporate defense bar dislikes nuisance litigation and sees "disclosure only" settlements as dubious payoffs to lawyers of marginal competence, their clients want to keep the merger train on schedule, and the "disclosure only" settlement expedites that process.

Dubious prospects.

Again, dubious.

Dubious tallies?

Competence matters.

Bionic competence.

(1) Competence.

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