Sentence examples for nearly competent from inspiring English sources

Drug testing could be handled by the nearly competent Dr. Nick Riviera.

All four of these bands played covers, ranging from nearly competent (Mr. Rand's fast romp through Billy Idol's "Rebel Yell") to mildly irritating (Dilana's overbearing version of the Black Crowes' "She Talks to Angels") to insufferable (Rock Star Supernova's clumsy hard-rock reading of "Bittersweet Symphony," by the Verve).

He explained that he had "trouble accepting some of the big conspiracy theories about 9/11 if only because, after 20 years in and out of Washington, I just can't imagine the federal government being nearly competent enough to carry out what would have been such a vast, complicated operation in total secrecy".

Romney would not have been nearly as competent an operative for the plutocrats; he would just have handed the Government to them, crudely, like George W. Bush did.

This concern about not being competent to undertake the work required was a theme for nearly all of the respondents (CHWs, nurses and Health Extension Officers) in the study [ 41].

Recently, a similar approach identified 13,715 mouse-competent probes on the human array [ 32], which contains nearly 75% of the mouse-competent probes reported here.

One hundred bullets is not nearly enough to train a competent marksman.

For those who do and want help, there are more obstacles: with the sense that peers, faculty members and others are likely to judge distressed students as less competent, it is nearly impossible to find somewhere truly safe to turn.

His rapping is rarely more than competent, and whereas nearly all rappers pride themselves on writing their own lyrics, Mr. Combs may be the only hip-hop star who has ever rapped about hiring ghostwriters: "Don't worry if I write rhymes, I write checks," he once boasted.

HIV infection is associated with numerous immunologic deficiencies in nearly every type of immune competent cell, including those that are programmed to inhibit HIV replication [30], [31], [32].

After two prolonged hospitalizations over nearly three years, Mr. Edwards was found competent to stand trial.