Sentence examples for sensible competent from inspiring English sources

That is amazing - a sensible, competent person from a sensible, competent country.

The study rates leaders on nine characteristics; compassionate, trustworthy, inspiring, honest, strong leadership, sensible, competent, knowledgable and intelligent.

It prompts adjectives – sensible, thoughtful, competent – about which a "but" hovers: faint praise in anticipation of a put-down.

They are a pretty sensible bunch, competent enough to make their own travel arrangements, plot their route and book hostels for stops in Amsterdam, Berlin, Prague, Croatia and Budapest.

I don't feel slightly younger than my years because I never really did that sensible, grown-up, competent, proper man crap.

Now you might say the past few weeks haven't looked a lot like competent, sensible government, and you'd be right.

They are calculating that at a time when voters are uncertain about the economy and weary of political dysfunction and upheaval they don't want big change or grand plans, they just want competent, sensible government.

TO BE effective, a financial regulator needs three things: a sound operating structure; sensible procedures and competent staff; and credibility so that wrongdoers are properly punished and others deterred.

Taken together, all these decisions mean the Coalition's re-election plan can run to a very conventional script, a basic calculation that at a time when voters are uncertain about the economy and weary of political dysfunction and upheaval they don't want big change or grand plans, they just want competent, sensible government.

"Why," asked Mr. Shultz, "don't we elect somebody who is patriotic, competent, sensible, has experience in government and has shown that he can manage well?" He said Mr. Huntsman had greatly impressed people in Singapore, where he was George H.W. Bush's ambassador before he was elected governor, adding that impressing Singaporeans was not easy.

Lewis also says that many of the mainstream scientists are "quite competent and sensible people".