Sentence examples for while competent from inspiring English sources
But the script becomes clumsier and cornier as it goes on, and Harper's direction, while competent, lacks the skill to disguise his many attempts to wrongfoot the viewer.
Egan performs a rash, heroic act, while competent, self-assured Jeremy does something so despicable under the same circumstances that his girlfriend, Lizzie (Jessica Collins), cannot look him in the eye after their rescue.
After all, while competent patients are entitled to refuse any form of medical treatment, they are not entitled to insist on the administration of forms of medical treatment that have no prospect of conferring a medical benefit or are not provided for reasons to do with affordability.
While competent reporters would have an advantage over most of the audience in policy matters, the commentators have no special expertise in determining which candidates looked forceful or nervous.
Kainen argues that while competent, Bewick "was no Holbein, no Botticelli it is absurd to think of him in such terms but he did develop a fresh method of handling wood engraving".
Furthermore, the azhdarchid skeleton suggests that, while competent walkers, they were poor waders.
Diagnostic tools bear the danger of people relying too much on them and their capabilities, so that after a while the fonnerly competent personnel looses their competence.
Today, the best interests of the child or of other children of the same age or condition govern biomedical research involving children, while the wishes of adults expressed while still competent or alive (if known) govern research on material from incompetent or deceased adults.
Her teacher ruled that while "technically competent... she was too detached emotionally to be a great pianist".
Part of the problem lies with the cast, which, while thoroughly competent, lacks singers who ideally inhabit their roles.
There are plenty of reasons why Theresa May's press conference in Hangzhou, while perfectly competent in most ways, was not the most assured performance of her two-month premiership.
