He comes across as much more competent when he appears unflappable.
I think I'm much more competent than all of them.
As his first-generation dancers retired, he replaced them with people who were much more competent technically.
He was New Labour's safe pair of hands, its trusty plumber, a much more competent than average minister.
But it is less well known that costly, elite boarding consistently turns out people who appear much more competent than they actually are.
Still, there's one bit of good news for Democrats: according to the new research, both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have much more competent features than baby-faced septuagenarian John McCain.
If the undoubted expertise of Klopp and the sporting director, Michael Zorc, cannot guarantee lasting success, what hope is there for clubs with much less competent people in key positions?
Staley had also acquired Greene's F.B.I. file, from a British bookseller, which revealed, among other things, that real spies weren't much more competent than the ones he made up in "Our Man in Havana".
Shortly after Jacobs arrived in Washington a new – and by her initial assessment, much more competent – superintendent was hired to oversee the flood of black refugees into the capital.
The Bears, though, didn't look much more competent after Cutler landed in never-never land and might not be as good as their previous 7-1 record indicated, Michael Wilbon writes on ESPN.com.
With girlfriends, we traded smug anecdotes about how much more competent we were at soothing babies to sleep, how the guys would inevitably forget the diaper-rash cream or buy the wrong baby cereal.
