Sentence examples for formidable competence from inspiring English sources

Mrs Clinton preserves her earlier advantages: her huge lead in the national polls, her formidable competence as a debater, her relentless energy.Mr Obama finds himself in much the same position as John McCain in 2000: everything needs to go right for him.

The trouble is that the current system has, at the best of times, a problem with transparency and accountability and, at its formidable worst, terrible problems with basic competence.

Dodgers Stages, 340 West 50th Street, Clinton, (212 239-6200.(Lawrence Van Gelder) 'BIRDIE BLUE' The stern competence of Lieutenant Van Buren, the formidable figure played by S. Epatha Merkerson on "Law & Order," is a long way from the warm but addled Birdie Blue, the title character in the new play by Cheryl L. West at the Second Stage Theater.

(Isherwood) 'BIRDIE BLUE' The stern competence of Lieutenant Van Buren, the formidable figure played by S. Epatha Merkerson on "Law & Order," is a long way from the warm but addled Birdie Blue, the title character in the new play by Cheryl L. West at the Second Stage Theater.

It would be a formidable task, of course, and most certainly not within the competence of conventional cartographers.

Competence matters.

Bionic competence.

"You lack management competence.

"Competence or chaos".

It starts with competence.

Competence is more important.