Sentence examples for proved a competent from inspiring English sources

She proved a competent and capable leader around camp, but it still wasn't enough.

As commander of this northernmost sector of the eastern frontier, Theophilos proved a competent soldier and gave valuable assistance to his brother's campaigns.

Intriguingly, a catecholboronic ester proved a competent coupling partner for reaction of the trisubstituted boronic ester 25 e, which gave 4 p in respectable yield in spite of increased steric hindrance to transmetallation.

He led his party from political oblivion in 2005 to 42percentt of the vote in 2007, and has proven a competent administrator.

Sent to the Lords, Andrew proved a more than competent parliamentarian.

The best opener we sampled, clean, shiny black mussels in a bowl of light tomato broth, proved a plain but competent effort.

Having earned his acting stripes on television dramas, Pedersen has proved himself a competent workhorse.

The president herself, Kersti Kaljulaid, got up to dance, and later in the evening Järvi also proved himself a competent beatboxer.

He had pursued a senatorial career and had proved himself a competent general, but he was above all a good administrator and a jurist.

This week he took over as prime minister from Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz, who was the country's most-trusted politician, and also proved himself a competent negotiator on Poland's behalf at European summits.The switch was a big surprise.

During his time in power, Rainilaiarivony proved himself a competent and temperate leader, administrator and diplomat.