He added later: "What we have said to President Karzai is, 'You have some competent people, and you need more of them.' " Elsewhere in the country, an American soldier was killed Wednesday by insurgents while on patrol in eastern Afghanistan, the NATO mission said.
"They had some competent, experienced journalists behind it, but I can't imagine — other than people directly affected in Fort Worth and nearby areas — that there would be much of an audience at all," said Ed Bark, a former TV critic who now runs a Web site.
California has some very competent and conscientious financial professionals who recognize that consumers have the judgment and wisdom to hire the cream of investment talent once they are given reasonable information.
He is a poor manager, prone to rash promises; his constantly shuffling government has included some competent ministers, but they have often been dumped after a few months in favour of political cronies.
Afghanistan does have some honest, competent technocrats.
Nevertheless, despite having some very competent people, the institutional and human resource capacities for effectively carrying forward MNCH policies were limited.
The area arguably has some of the least competent government systems, and some of the most serious looming environmental problems.
And a more diverse and robust way of getting their work into the world: not just more competent critics (we have some), but more kinds of competent critics, and more places where conversations about digital literature can happen, and more avenues by which digital lit can reach readers.
Having some of the most competent, young researchers waste their time on work irrelevant to their subject in order to survive, thereby extending their period of study, is a great loss of productivity for Greek society.
Readers should be moderately competent programmers and have had some experience with linear algebra.
