In the Beltway, the hottest conversations center on the competence of Obama's team.
Similarly, Rankin's transparent lack of fitness casts doubt on the competence of England's conditioning staff.
For the most part, they see them as a way of passing judgment on the competence of the government.
After Iraq, Katrina and Harriet Miers, Democrats surged to a five-to-three advanthee on the competence and ethics questions.
Astounded South Africans defended their hero, pooh-poohing the allegations and casting doubt on the competence of the Indian police.
The criticism of Mr. Pitt comes as Democrats try to open a debate on the competence of the administration's economic team.
That had Mr. Flowers ricocheting between guises as mixed-up kid and American bard, and mostly falling back on the competence of the music.
I do not wish to cast any doubt on the competence of those who carried out this study; I am sure they did their work most conscientiously.
It was the result of attacks on the competence and character of Kinnock that, as well as being grotesquely unjustified, were sustained, week after week, for a year or more before the 1992 election campaign began.
Still, Mr. Kerry made a sweeping attack on the competence of the entire administration, declaring that America's military should know he would never ask them "to fight a war without a plan to win the peace".
Brody's animus to Pauline Kael drips with similar condescension: Kael properly deduced that a huge part of going to the movies consisted of how the audience responded to the people on the screen, rather than simply basing her critique on the competence of the writing or the technical aspects of the cinematography.
