Sentence examples for moderately competent from inspiring English sources

Any moderately competent detective would start by examining the reliability of the data.

"If Thompson had run a moderately competent campaign, and created a real narrative for himself, he might be mayor," Mr. Siegel said.

The Cherry Coke Jell-O is less a dessert than a text, packed with enough signs to keep a moderately competent cultural critic fully employed for months.

Mr Venizelos says he will not serve under Mr Samaras, though several moderately competent socialists would join a ND-led government.

Short created the Texas Rangers, sold them as planned, and thereby created the conditions under which a failed oil wildcatter named George W. Bush could, as the Rangers' managing partner, redeem himself as a moderately competent baseball executive.

Yet he remained self-effacing about his role in shaping the trajectory of the medium: "I think anybody who had been moderately competent, reasonably alert to the vitality of what was actually going on in the medium would have done the same thing I did," he said.

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Arabidopsis mutants lacking either of the two MSP isoforms remained photosynthetically competent, but were moderately retarded in growth.

These data indicate that the substitution of domain III resulted in a replication-competent chimeric replicon, although with moderately decreased (∼7-fold lower) colony forming efficiency compared to neo-RepD.

The substitution of domain III in the GBV-B replicon with the corresponding HCV domain resulted in a replication-competent chimeric RNA with only moderately decreased replication capacity in cell culture.

We orthotopically transplanted into immune-competent WAP-T mice two tumor cell lines (H8N8, moderately metastatic, and G-2, non-metastatic), developed from primary WAP-T tumors.