Every garden has plants that would benefit from pruning, but only if it is done competently.
He sought to assure the American people that "this investigation was done competently, honestly, and independently".
What I can assure the American people is that this investigation was done competently, honestly, and independently.
A significant challenge for these state-of-the-art analyses is that they must be done competently.
True, he did not have a lot to do – the only save he had to make in the first half was to prevent a Glen Johnson own goal – but what he was asked to do he did competently and with confidence.
That is what a public pension board can do competently.
Comey acknowledged the deeply politicized nature of the investigation, but stressed that it was done "honestly, competently, independently".
As Metcalfe argues, information technology does indeed matter when applied competently.
When they do fall into water, however, they generally swim competently.
It's not a matter of if this situation happens, but when: You competently make a point.
