Many ministers have surprised officials with their competence and hard work.
The recent shooting has led some members of Congress to question Mexico's standard policy of refusing to allow American agents to be armed, while Mexico's president, Felipe Calderón, has responded bitterly to leaked diplomatic cables in which American officials criticized the competence of Mexican authorities in the fight against cartels.
"The structure should allow political balance at the top," said one official, along with "competence and efficiency as the quality for the ministers who run things day to day".
In a narrative so sweeping that there is a fresh example in nearly every paragraph, Lears, a distinguished historian with a special interest in the quirky cultures of protest and dissent that percolate beneath the sleek official culture of competence and control in America, examines our persistent fascination with chance.
Dalglish has admitted he needs contact lenses but, more to the point, he insisted he would judge officials only on their competence.
Benchmarks: Understands the difference between the "rule of law" and the "rule of men"; Understands how and why the rule of law can be used to restrict the actions of private citizens and government officials Language Arts Standard 7 – Demonstrates competence in the general skills and strategies for reading a variety of informational texts.
They evaluated officials on criteria of competence, honesty, obedience to the imperial court, adherence to the law, their treatment of convicts, and any signs of extortion, nepotism, or factionalism.
And if this gamble fails, it won't be only the competence of our officials that will be called into question -- it will be the American creed itself.
President Conant of Harvard called attention to the conflicts of opinion among scientists and engineers, and questioned the the competence of lay officials to determine which opinions are sound and which are not.
The rocky rollout of the new federal insurance program has irked many consumers, caused some to question the competence of federal officials and created a political crisis for Mr. Obama.
