Sentence examples for they were competent from inspiring English sources

"They were competent and communicative," he said.

If managers treated their employees as if they were competent, they would become competent.

"Leonardo and Rembrandt may have thought they were competent inquirers in their own right, but we moderns know better".

In particular, he said that Communists should be employed if they were competent, calling arguments to the contrary irrelevant and improper.

"If you had 10 hands and they were competent, as captain you didn't give a damn about their color," he said.

Only 37 percent of overweight doctors strongly believed that they were competent even to offer advice about eating and exercise, compared with 53 percent of normal-weight physicians.

Yet they are competent people and they are the choices that the EU has now made.

They think they're competent, those with the buttoned-up backs.

The proviso has to be, of course, that they are competent in government.

They are competent sailors even in salty and turbulent condition, the researchers find.

They are competent, pro-market, and pro-American, though not supinely so.