Sentence examples for hard competent from inspiring English sources

There's not much you can do to influence them other than hard, competent work.

"She was genteel, hard-working, competent, concerned.

The directors with whom I work are diligent, hard-working, competent and proud of what they are doing to represent the interests of shareholders.

"Bradley is an honest, hard-working, competent guy," Mr. Bloomberg said when asked about Mr. Tusk, who he added "never had anything to do with parts of that administration".

Operating at increasingly greater depths and excavating harder, more competent rock combined to significantly affect the shaft sinking speed.

The hard-boiled, competent detective we were introduced to has been replaced by an incoherent soap opera-y puddle.

At the risk of dissing some hard-working, competent and caring home health-care worker who has yet to cross my path, I am truly at a loss as to why most of them even exist except to bill our insurance company absurd amounts of money.

"From the appointment standpoint, it is getting harder and harder to get competent men and women to serve at the highest level because of the financial disclosure act and other disclosures," Mr. James said.

Many of the region's industrial and building firms complain that it is hard to find competent welders.

Analysts say the Taliban no longer have foreign expertise in preparing suicide bombers, and have a hard time finding competent recruits in a society that until recent years had little history of suicide attacks.

He is working on a method to mass-produce sushi, delivering it ready-made to supermarkets because he has had a hard time finding competent sushi chefs in the country's heartland.