The point of the story is the growing, deepening affection between Francis and Julian, and this is managed competently.
He claims for the longest time that he can't remember whether he did away with her or not, and for the rest of the book Faulks gets to indulge in the unreliable-narrator game of cunning ellipses and selective, gradual revelation, which he manages competently.
The objective of the intervention was to provide GPs with sufficient understanding to manage, competently but not expertly, those headache disorders that are common in primary care.
Alternatively, those who possess a greater quality of life may be more likely to exhibit the skills necessary to self-manage competently.
By transferring assets into the hands of professional or semiprofessional managers, the trust arrangement frequently allows assets to be managed more competently than they would be by some or all of the beneficiaries.
We will never know just how much better the fight in Afghanistan might be going if it had been managed more competently over the past six years.
Are multinational bodies such as the IMF doing all they can to prevent crises or, if they happen, to manage them competently?The financial upsets of the past two decades, and especially the East Asian crisis of the late 1990s, have yielded a mass of new information and spurred a great deal of activity under each of these headings.
Furthermore, a number of past high-profile court cases have considered the worthiness of the risk models used by fund managers as part of the broader question of whether the manager has been competently managing risk.
Mitt Romney is a good man who probably would have made a great president in the 1950s, competently managing the executive branch at a time of balanced budgets.
When my supervisees performed well, showed up on time and took ownership of their projects, my boss saw that I was competently managing the office.
That is what a public pension board can do competently.
