Sentence examples for not merely competent from inspiring English sources

The authors draw on research in the area of social justice to express the need for academic libraries to explore new avenues to insure their institution's graduates are not merely competent consumers of information.

It has probably never been easier to take good pictures - not merely competent ones - than it is today: we're living in a sort of golden age and of course it won't last.

So even though "Sinners Welcome" is Karr's fourth volume of poetry and "Saving Daylight" is Harrison's 10th, readers can't be blamed for thinking, "Oh, they write poetry, too?" In other words, the stakes are higher for these two writers: if they want to ovecome the perception that poetry is their "other" genre, then the poems themselves have to be not merely competent but memorable.

Some newer or freshened models, such as the Flord Flex and F-150, also rank in the top of their class in our testing, though other Ford models are merely competent, not outstanding".

Their power was merely competent to reach these objects; but did not, and could not, in regard to the militia, supersede the ordinary rights of the states.

Competent and skilled lawyering is not merely a craft.

These public intellectuals, I wrote at the time, "belong not merely on a list of 546 but on any competent grouping one-tenth its size".

I'm not a hot rodder, and this is obviously not a sport coupe, but I'd prefer a vehicle that feels crisp instead of flighty, eager instead of merely competent.

Jobs was a merely competent technician.

For whatever reason, most of the portrayals were merely competent.

How can we distinguish the stars from the merely competent?