Sentence examples for were competent to do from inspiring English sources

The Government Accountability Office questioned the F.A.A.'s ability to maintain the up-to-date knowledge necessary to approve new equipment, and the Department of Transportation's inspector general criticized the agency for failing to ensure that personnel designated by aircraft manufacturers to certify their aircraft or components were competent to do so.

"I am not sure I am competent to do that.

I do not doubt that Bourgass would have contemplated causing harm if he was competent to do so.

As Professor Stephen Mayson of the Legal Services Institute put it at the first LSB seminar, it's not about title; "it's about what functions we want people to perform and what they need to be competent to do them".

Dr Stephen Biddle; Senior fellow for defence policy, Council on Foreign Relations "Most of their British trainers say that the quality of ANA units is 'OK', and that they are competent to do the basic job".

Our PM's forthcoming note to his European counterparts could helpfully be based on a distillation of those matters that can only be done effectively at the European level, with individual states resuming responsibility for things that they are competent to do for themselves in their own differing ways.

When asked about the possibility of a breakup of Microsoft during a February 2000 interview -- which was described as "a rare audience with a sitting judge during the course of a trial" -- the court is quoted as saying, "I am not sure I am competent to do that".

Mr. Obama correctly said that Congress passed malicious laws that restrict the use of federal money to transfer Guantánamo detainees to other countries and prohibit sending them to be tried in federal courts, which, unlike the military tribunals, are competent to do that.

As Young and his colleague, Trent Dilfer, continued to talk, they got angrier, and spoke to ideas that go beyond the game of football: "And so we've built something great, and we're not surrounding it with, with partners that feel the same way, that are competent to do the same job that everyone else has put their time and effort in over a long period of time, over the years," Young said.

Further findings of the study highlight a need to provide engineers with focused training to ensure that they have a clear understanding of the importance of ensuring technical integrity of design of process plants and are competent to do so.

When we trust people, we are optimistic not only that they are competent to do what we trust them to do, but also that they are committed to doing it.