Sentence examples for once competent from inspiring English sources

Of course, some incompetent people were once competent but were promoted to jobs they could not handle.

I didn't think I could cope with my two roles at once — competent barmaid and besotted student — and I had no idea how to respond when he turned around and recognized me.

But then the Indian case is illustrative of a much wider phenomenon; of once competent, once admired politicians who stay on too long in office and see their reputation diminish as a result.

Is the level of acceptable risks the same for individuals who were once competent, such as previously competent adults with Alzheimer disease, individuals who are not now but are expected to become competent, such as healthy children, and individuals who are not now and likely never will be competent, such as individuals born with severe cognitive disabilities?

Patients for whom surrogate consent was obtained were re-consented once competent to provide informed consent.

If the patient's preference has not been stated, the patient is not expected to regain consciousness, and there is no way to ascertain the once competent, now incompetent, patient's wishes, the results of ethics consultation should reflect the best interest of the patient.

The treatment of "once-competent" individuals in minimally conscious states, or with severe dementia, thus raises distinct issues about the impact of psychological discontinuity or loss of mental function on the relationship of human individuals to their past or future selves.

They need to recall the skills at which they were once so competent.

The film is at once a competent, somewhat contrived espionage thriller and a dizzily clever parody of spy-movie conventions.

There's a way we can elect a new Congress, all at once, with competent, experienced, incorruptible leaders.

Sicilian architects — even Andrea Giganti, once a competent architect in Baroque — now began to design in the neoclassical style, but in this case in the version of the neoclassical adopted by fashionable France.