Sentence examples for good competent from inspiring English sources

There are good competent European government leaders like Luxenbourg's Jean Claude Juncker, Belgium's Guy Verhofstadt or Austria's Wolfgang Schüssel.

3.44am GMT James Fallows, following the story in The Atlantic, says whatever has happened to the plane is unlikely to be a result of chronic poor practices by Malaysia Airlines ("a good, competent and modern airline").

"The key to the presidency is to set divisions, to lay out the parameters by which decisions will be made and to encourage really good, competent people to serve the country for the right reasons and to build a team".

A. Ten years ago, we approached patient safety as a series of system flaws; we believed that most errors were committed by good competent people doing something no more complicated than forgetting a cellphone.

Mr. Fleming and Mr. Kim "are good competent guys, but they are young compared to their Wall Street peers," said a former Merrill executive who knows both men and who also questioned whether they yet had sufficient experience and stature to run such a significant business.

David Niven: The obvious fact is that to deliver a good, competent, supportive job to those you're charged with helping – in any of the caring professions – you've got to have the time to do it and not charge round spinning plates on the end of sticks because you're underresourced, undersupported and constantly in a high state of anxiety that you're going to be criticised for missing something.

"How could this happen to someone so good, so competent?" he said.

But, Mr. Nation said, Mr. Coleman "was a good and competent narcotics officer during the time he worked in Swisher County".

I mean, he seemed good and competent and he'll be able to do the job, but I'm not going to kill myself if he says no.

"Both guys, although they're both very good and competent people, they really weren't producing the results that they had mutually agreed upon with us," Locke said.

This makes a large dent in the start-up funds but I think it's essential if you're going to develop good, caring, competent CPAs to deliver the sort of care you would expect for your loved ones.