Sentence examples for says competent from inspiring English sources

Chris Groscurth says "competent leaders" are among the three must-haves for changing a start-up's culture.

An earlier draft said "competent authorities" could request the data without a court order.

The researchers say "competent" means more mature-looking and less baby-face-looking, and that the older-looking crowd got 7.5% more pay after adjustment for various factors including the size of their company and their experience.

After conducting what they bluntly call "beauty contest experiments" involving scores of big-company CEOs, Duke business-school researchers say "competent" looking bosses get paid more regardless of company profitability.

… So when I say competent, then it's their impression on me, that they leave a positive impression.

He says a competent chemistry grad student could cook them up in a university lab.

However, he says that competent judges have this preference for the higher pleasure, "even though knowing it to be attended with a greater amount of discontent" (U II 5).

For instance, Crispin Wright and Stewart Shapiro say a competent speaker can faultlessly classify the borderline case as a positive instance while another competent speaker can faultlessly classify the case as a negative instance.

France's largest corporations have no black directors or senior executives, he said, claiming competent blacks are unavailable.

But Mr. Leonard's current lawyers say a competent investigation of his background would have yielded a trove of evidence that might well have persuaded the jury to spare his life.

Rather, it is to say that competent users of the term tacitly make those assumptions.