Sentence examples for solid and competent from inspiring English sources

He was ready with a simple message: that the man who sold himself as solid and competent had lost his grip.

With the acquisition of experience, Straw was to develop into a solid and competent foreign secretary, though, as the French say, he did not invent gunpowder.

Mishima's novels are typically Japanese in their sensuous and imaginative appreciation of natural detail, but their solid and competent plots, their probing psychological analysis, and a certain understated humour helped make them widely read in other countries.

So if Dimon's really the "too brilliant to fail" banker he claims to be, he would be planning for the day when he's replaced by someone else -- someone who could turn out to be more like Chuck Prince from Citigroup or Joe Cassano from AIG. Dimon's a solid and competent banker, but he's not the visionary he claims to be.

In other words, Xerox has done a beautiful job of making its machine solid, simple and competent.

Written by John Cabrera (known primarily as an actor in "Gilmore Girls") and Cosimo De Tommaso, and directed by Stewart Hendler ("Sorority Row"), it's an ambitious project, consisting of 48 three-to-six-minute episodes with reasonably solid production values and competent acting, at least for an online series.

Remember to have in place the three Ps: solid plans, adequate procedures, and competent people.

Build a solid foundation by hiring smart and competent employees and giving them reasons to stay.

THEM Anime Review's Carlos Ross said, "The voice-acting is remarkable, the directing is solid, and music is quite competent.

It often emanates from a hunger for quality that often causes we the critics to look at a merely solid and/or competent piece of cinema and hail it as a groundbreaking work of art.

SERVICE Informed and competent.