Sentence examples for serious and capable from inspiring English sources

"We have a tennis integrity unit, with serious and capable people running it," Helfant says.

Mr. Gates was right when he warned of America's dwindling patience with allies "unwilling to devote the necessary resources or make the necessary changes to be serious and capable partners in their own defense".

The blunt reality is that there will be dwindling appetite and patience in the U.S. Congress - and in the American body politic writ large - to expend increasingly precious funds on behalf of nations that are apparently unwilling to devote the necessary resources or make the necessary changes to be serious and capable partners in their own defense.

For all the wry cheek of those pieces, the concert ended on a grandiloquent note with Bruno Mantovani's Chamber Concerto No. 2. A resourceful and satisfying sequence of deftly balanced weights and shades, potent solo passages for individual members and a gripping quarter-tone unison melody, this pungent work was a striking reminder of how serious and capable the Eighth Blackbird members are.

"The blunt reality," Mr. Gates said, "is that there will be dwindling appetite and patience in the U.S. Congress — and in the American body politic writ large — to expend increasingly precious funds on behalf of nations that are apparently unwilling to devote the necessary resources or make the necessary changes to be serious and capable partners in their own defense".

"The blunt reality is that there will be dwindling appetite and patience in the U.S. Congress, and in the American body politic writ large, to expend increasingly precious funds on behalf of nations that are apparently unwilling to devote the necessary resources... to be serious and capable partners in their own defense," he said in an address to a think tank in Brussels.

Ambassador Crocker acknowledged the frustration of members of Congress and of the American people, but argued that Iraqi leaders "are serious" and "are capable of coming together and thrashing out issues in a serious and deliberate manner".

Mr. Wise and the chef de cuisine, Neil Ferguson, are running a serious kitchen here and capable of impeccable work.

First, President Hassan Rouhani, the Iranian president, and Mohammad Javad Zarif, Iran's foreign minister, represent the most serious, credible, moderate and capable negotiators the Islamic Republic is ever likely to produce.

The past few weeks have demonstrated both that a serious and concerted campaign is capable of delivering results, and that the government has always been more interested in pursuing its ideological agenda in higher education than in protecting students – effectively using London Met as test case in its market experiment.

However, I took the time to meet the three founders and feel comfortable stating that they struck me as serious, highly capable hardware and software engineers who've spent 18 months developing a technology they believe holds real compelling value for users.