Yet they are competent people and they are the choices that the EU has now made.
The proviso has to be, of course, that they are competent in government.
Cabinet officials and staffers think they are competent human beings who bring expertise to their job.
They are competent, pro-market, and pro-American, though not supinely so.
They are competent but largely generic, the artist often reusing poses, costumes and settings from one picture to the next.
In some situations, students will use the scaffold until they are competent and ready to focus on other simultaneous tasks.
Mr. Djindjic added that Serbia's new leaders wanted "to give a chance to our courts because they are competent".
He points out that computers have areas in which they are competent and others in which they are not.
"I think that one of the judgments that the American people will have to make about this administration is whether or not they are competent," she said.
He painted in Paris, Rome and Morocco, developing a Fauve style, and if the canvases aren't ground-breaking, well, they are competent.
"Yes, they are competent, no doubt, and yes, they brought stringent management practices to AmBev, but these guys are financiers, not industrialists".
