Sentence examples for rather than competence from inspiring English sources

No department head, he said, will keep a job because of race rather than competence.

Appointments have often been made as a reward for political loyalty rather than competence.

Unfortunately, the Kremlin tends to pick leaders for loyalty rather than competence.

Islamists have generally fared well in elections, but because of emotional appeal rather than competence in governing.

If Labour's main area of weakness is communication rather than competence, Mr Johnson, a natural on television, may be the cure.

It's partly a question of meritocracy: in a land in which appointments are invariably made through nepotism rather than competence, it's perhaps inevitable that any investigation has holes in it and that decent lawyers are able to find them.

But this often meant choosing people for their ideological purity rather than their competence or intelligence.

As a result, votes are given according to tribal loyalty rather than political competence.

They insist that patients are in no position to judge which doctors are best and that some patients may respond to glib charm rather than professional competence.

Leaders have no incentive to perform well, Collier explains, if voters cast ballots according to ethnic loyalty rather than governmental competence.

There is another problem in the current board's setup: almost every U.S.O.C. committee, including its executive committee and the board, names members based on various representational requirements -- for example, team handball and basketball have the same voting power -- rather than on competence.