Sentence examples for hardly competent from inspiring English sources

Although traditional grippers can deal with some simple, fixed tasks (grasping and transferring workpieces), their low commonality, humble perception and insufficient flexibility make them hardly competent to complex operations in unstructured environment.

"Barely competent".

Instead, he seemed just competent.

She's barely competent.

This hardly smacks of competent lobbying.

I just became competent.

Bradley Cooper equally has had a lucky break in Silver Lining in which he's competent but hardly inspired.

Kate Baldwin and Lewis Cleale, who play Agnes and Michael in the current Westport Country Playhouse incarnation of the show, could hardly be called merely competent.

Mr. Bryan's music is competent but hardly complicated pop-rock that provides a plain base for his and Mr. DiPietro's relatively crude lyrics.

Wenger's ability to bring trophies back to Arsenal would have been called into question had he been unable to guide them past a very competent, but hardly remarkable, Championship team to the FA Cup final.

In any case, his understated performance as the South African rugby captain François Pienaar in Invictus might have been competent, but it hardly brings the house down.