How To Use Competent In A Sentence

These Brits are either bunglers, incompetent, mean-spirited, or they have no minds of their own.
They kicked out our competent people and posted nincompoops. Times, Sunday Times
So no matter how boneheaded an incompetent manager I am, my department is 100% guaranteed to be profitable as long as I'm good at keeping my receipts?
I have also had dealings with totally incompetent muppets posing as health professionals.
Because the learner has become competent with the short vowels, consonants, and consonant blends, he or she can now concentrate on mastering the long-vowel spelling forms.

They have suffered embarrassment and worst from dopes, dubbos and incompetents.
Reporter - unquote "unquote" is looking for a confident, competent and ambitious reporter with language skills, specifically French or Scandinavian, to work as part of the unquote "team. News from Journalism.co.uk
So basically, the thought is that this woman is going to start slashing the department, and only the really competent people will remain.
A psychiatrist said McKibben was competent to stand trial .
That being the case, it is inconceivable to me that an accused cannot raise, by way of prerogative writ, the issue of the statutory validity of service before a court of competent jurisdiction.
Although it is established that TMR-actin alone is polymerization incompetent, the impact of its copolymerization with unlabeled actin on filament structure and dynamics has not been tested yet.
Any competent adult has the absolute right to refuse to be examined by any particular individual.
I had this mentality that the police were incompetent, which they weren't. Times, Sunday Times
The four defendants were charged for tattooing their bodies to evade conscription immediately after they were judged physically competent to serve in the military.
History is littered with despots and psychopaths, murderous dullards, evil geniuses, deadly incompetents, calamitous brutes of all descriptions.
I suggest you refer to the competent department, the Ministry of Finance.
Inasmuch as the defence needs only to secure the vote of one juryman to procure a disagreement, this offer is a comparatively safe one for the defendant to make, since the prosecutor, who must secure unanimity on the part of the jury (at least in New York State), can afford to take no chances of letting an incompetent or otherwise unfit talesman slip into the box. Courts and Criminals
Having an incompetent person in a ministry leads to frustration, failure, and hurt. Christianity Today
he did the job rather incompetently
When a valve is incompetent, the heart has to work harder to pump the required amount of blood around the body.
The youngster made a competent fist of it until Arsenal's second, but his team's problems lay in the hinterland behind him.
He's not competent to look after young children.
competent testimony
Billings was a clumsy, maladroit man, his fingers astonishingly competent with a wireless set, his other limbs ungainly and shambling. IN LOVE AND WAR
The Afghan army on their flanks was better armed and vastly more competent. Times, Sunday Times
This mixes feminism with funny, cool with competent, self-deprecating with powerbroker. The Sun
All business operations to be consistent element in the electronic information and Paper premise may be submitted to the competent authorities.
The sorting is quite obvious; less competent people are more likely to get caught (and more likely to be able to be railroaded) and less able to mount a good defence. Matthew Yglesias » Prisons and Mental Institutions Revisited
Forwarding residential extension applications of foreign employees working at the park enterprises competent authorities for approvals.
He bath danced at Tarascon in the ballet of Saint Martha and the Dragon, and was accounted in his own person the only actor competent to present the Tarrasque. Anne of Geierstein
Walter Lippman (1925) in particular, was skeptical of the idea of an "omnicompetent" citizen who possesses sufficient knowledge to participate effectively in the political process.
We have constant, what we call competent air patrol or CAP over New York and over Washington. CNN Transcript Oct 10, 2001
Thus, the standard is not just that of the averagely competent and well-informed junior houseman (or whatever the position of the doctor) but of such a person who fills a post in a unit offering a highly specialised service.
Betas can come in many forms—from competent wingmen to extreme introverts who are so determined to avoid conflict they suffer anxiety of their own. Are Alpha Males Healthy?
News of most of the phone's features had already leaked out, making for a competent but slightly underwhelming presentation. Times, Sunday Times
The gist of his argument is that persons with scientific insight can dismiss as incompetent anyone who disagrees with them in judgments of value. What Unitarians Know (and Sam Harris Doesn't)
If a veterinarian - just as in the case of a doctor - is deemed to be highly incompetent or to have a mental or physical incapacity, he or she should be suspended forthwith.
This is an elegant explanation, one that leads to Mauser's equally elegant peroration: ‘capacitating students to be competent citizens is our birthright.’
Desjardins is still an above-average rearguard on a competent but unspectacular defensive corps.
They were severely lambasted for being so inept and so incompetent.
Some people work exceedingly well as coaches and mentors, and some people are simply incompetent to be mentors. THE ESSENTIAL DRUCKER
Or should the "greenlight" go to the ultra-competent actor and his artist wife who seem to have storyboarded every single budget item in advance for a film about a woman who leaves her big cool job in New York, comes home to Pittsburgh, and reevaluates her life? Post-gazette.com - News
Thirdly, simvastatin inhibits endothelial cell apoptosis and preserves ischaemic vasculature, perhaps maintaining a competent vascular supply to the macula.
Swindon were competent but, in common with many of the underdog teams playing over the weekend, simply lacked the guile or spark to score. Times, Sunday Times
She is respectful of individualâ€ ™ s personal timetables and idiosyncrasies and always seeks to bring the best out in everyone. acknowledges otherâ€ ™ s gifts and talents. master brainstormer, always suggesting possible fundraisers and prospective corporate or community partners. adept at seeking out possible grants and competently applying for them with great success. First Book Blog
The combination of glossy production, adequate acting and competent editing was enough to make Pearl Harbor or The Mummy Returns at least tolerable.
The cast consists of ill-assorted schoolboys and workmen, turned gradually into a competent team.
WMHunter; the old mod 70 trigger is one of the best made. they are easy to hone out the machine marks in the contact points and to adjust, and of 300+ that I have reworked, I have never had one returned, and one of them has been re barreled twice since I did the trigger. $40 to a competent gunsmith and you will have as good a trigger as you can buy. Rifles of Interest, Vol. 1
Training becomes especially important as the industry shifts more and more to just-in-time deliveries, while facing an increasing shortage of competent drivers.
Yet any half-competent peterman with a sectional jemmy would have ripped it open inside five minutes. A QUESTION OF PRINCIPLE
What a pity it is also the most corrupt, incompetent and untrustworthy.
As an absolute and omnicompetent power, from the standpoint of psychological realism it is both an ethical travesty and a practical absurdity.
Although Neville was supremely competent both as a newspaper journalist and as a broadcaster, I always thought of him pre-eminently as a man of the arts.
The competent authorities concerned that the influx of funds caused by a new bubble over.
Britain's voters have now just about got it clear in their heads that these particular politicians are not omnicompetent either, but, having now lost faith in the whole idea of omnicompetence (good) don't know what to do about it except be miserable (bad).
Today's young men and women are more mature, responsible and competent.
The SEC, he said, "has no discretion-none-to fail to follow up, with serious investigations, when presented with knowledgeable, detailed, obviously highly competent, and in many respects easily 'checkable' allegations of … a huge fraud that is fooling thousands of people, stealing billions of dollars, and causing horrible injustice. News Dissector Blog
The intern reported that when he asked the man if he wanted to choose dialysis or accept death from uremia, the man decided to be dialyzed—but, the intern explained to me, the man might not be competent to make that decision. After the Diagnosis
She's extremely competent and industrious.
He would not have expected any damage to the frenulum during a competent attempt at intubation of a child.
There are also those who are lazy, incompetent or simply in the wrong job. Times, Sunday Times
The almost universal desire to possess some kind of armorial insignia, implies a corresponding recognition of the necessity to obtain them from some Institution or Personage, supposed to be competent and authorised both to determine what they should be, and to impart a right to accept and to assume and bear them. The Handbook to English Heraldry
It would follow that non-human animals and pre-linguistic children, although they can be sensitive, alert, responsive to pain and suffering, and cognitively competent in many remarkable ways–including ways that exceed normal adult human competence–are not really conscious (in this strong sense): there is no organized subject (yet) to be the enjoyer or sufferer, no owner of the experiences as contrasted with a mere cerebral locus of effects. What the Cognitive Scientists Believe
To be even more blunt: If the entire haruspical tradition is from the Near East and related closely with Babylonian or Hittite religion which share the same practices, then why aren't Etruscologists doing the sensible thing and putting away their childish toys namely Capella's fictitious poetry and picking up a book on Babylonian or Hittite divination practices in order to understand Etruscan religion more competently? Finding structure in the Piacenza Liver despite academic claptrap - Part 4
A competent mechanic should be able to fix the problem.
This totally incompetent woman, is good at cacooning herself from public scrutiny, makes herself unavailable to public questioning, yet she gratuitously offers her opinions without submitting herself to vetting. cmb Palin to visit Fort Hood during book tour
A requirement to explore a field in breadth and in depth still seems necessary to ensure that a student is competent to practice in that field. Two Thoughts on Economic Education, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
On the grounds of weeding out incompetent and unqualified staff, every teacher in the city was dismissed by the municipal authorities and ordered to reapply for their positions.
A psychiatrist said McKibben was competent to stand trial .
He had to be a gentleman: clubbable, competent, courteous and fair; but he had also to be not so gentlemanly as to be lazy or independent of his master.
Most adults do not feel competent to deal with a medical emergency involving a child.
The chapter on Alcott follows two figures - the wounded soldier and the competent nurse - as they become symbols of feminized male and masculinized female.
Demonstrating a vastly incompetent grasp of the driving forces behind economic growth in modern "postindustrial" nations - for almost 40 years, now all new income has developed in the USA from developments in Libertarian Blog Place
Most importantly, he is also a very competent member of a trawler's crew, capable of gutting the fish fast enough to keep the packers happy.
The doctrine of res judicata prevents relitigation of matters that have already been determined by a court of competent jurisdiction.
This was done in an efficient and competent manner. Times, Sunday Times
Quite obviously, no single reviewer is competent to judge the reliability of every bit of material to be found in this encyclopedic book.
In a September 11 article in the leading French newspaper Le Monde, titled "Sarah Palin, a funny kind of parishioner" (Sarah Palin, une drôle de paroisienne) sociologist Yannick Fer gives a competent overview of the Charismatic movement to which Palin belongs, but his conclusion is widely off the mark: Scott Atran: Religion in America: Why Many Democrats and Europeans Don't Get It
Worse, since drill-n-kill programs make an end-run around reputedly incompetent teachers, it is children in public schools -- rather than private, elitist charter schools -- that end up suffering computer disempowerment. Miguel Guhlin: Nurture Human Talents
If he stayed around long enough, he'd see his teenage bride had matured into a competent, successful businesswoman.
While analogical change within the numeral set is common and possible in general, it doesn't appear probable here when Starostin's typically "parenthetic" *ŋi̯u "3" has not been demonstrated with regular sound correspondences using a competently reconstructed phonology that doesn't violate phonemic markedness at every turn. The hidden binary behind the Japanese numeral system
I know that the personnel is competent and qualified. Times, Sunday Times
The new chairman proved during the next few weeks to be competent, but relied heavily on Andrew's procedural and bookwork knowledge.
This skill set will assist in their pursuit of life-long learning, as competent netizens and computerate users, in a society experiencing continuous technological change.
He was a loyal, distinguished and very competent civil servant.
One of the things I adore about Jet Li is the way he often plays this terrifically competent martial arts expert who at the same time retains a sense of innocence and humility and a sometimes comedic lack of suavity around attractive women (this movie includes a mother-daughter team of thieves, so you can be sure there is some comedy). 2008 Film Reviews: More Catching Up
Those are competent, punchily written and laudably clear, though the lack of case studies—perhaps a casualty of the book's breadth—means this can be a dry read. There's More to MBAs Than Legal Fraud
We assume that competent doctors emerge at the end of an obstacle course of traditional examinations based on facts.
Five of the six reviews reported a statistically significant reduction in pneumococcal pneumonia and bacteraemia among immunocompetent adults who were not otherwise at increased risk.
However it appears to the Environment Agency that the ancient navigable status of the Thames at Hedsor has never been extinguished by statute or by any other competent authority.
It will come as no surprise to those who view Mr. Speaker Martin as incompetent, chippy and partial to the Government to discover that he is at the heart, yet again, of an effort to conceal from the public gaze something which appears to be unsatisfactory and discreditable about the conduct of the democratic affairs of the House and therefore the nation. Archive 2007-10-28
I may have said there are people here who are incompetent and unprofessional.
I often wonder what journalism's legendary scribes would say about this year's crop of liars, plagiarists, and incompetents.
The journalist slanted the report so that the mayor was made to appear incompetent.
Women are more likely to be considered incompetent and untrained with firearms.
All patients can do is trust that the strangers on their health care team are competent and caring enough to do their best to help correct whatever ails the patient.
This morning's good mood severely dented by incompetent carriers who have repeatedly failed to deliver parcels on time and to the right address.
Either they are not consider Hamas leaders or the Mossad is incompetent. Matthew Yglesias » Team Palin Takes Shape
Jandek, an ultra-reclusive singer-songwriter specializing in unnervingly bleak psychodramas accompanied by an out-of-tune guitar, has been read as both incompetent and musically avant-garde.
Laotse replied, "Men like this can only be regarded as a duteous civil servant or a competent technician. We can't say that they are sage kings or good leaders.
Who knew that not having any spine to oppose blatantly bad Bush II SCOTUS appointments (at least we will hear no more old-school 'activist judge' hooey, which is something I guess) would turn out so badly for the incompetent Dems? Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local
Where were these "responsible and competent persons" who were said to be studying the problem? Paul VI - The First Modern Pope
Because Canada and Mexico are our closest neighbors (and our incompetent, corrupt politicians always need easy votes), Washington will no doubt forge ahead with its Canada-America-Mexico 'supernation' plan. Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com
The Greens have a pretty good website, with a competent and professional layout, and of course, a blog.
Are you a competent carpenter, plumber, welder, mechanic?
Incompetent ones probably make even lousier judges. The Volokh Conspiracy » The Short List
Far from being cynical spoilsmen or naive incompetents, individuals whose presidencies provide studies in ineptitude, Garfield and Arthur emerge as men of considerable ability.
The failure of the regulated to act honestly, competently and in compliance with the regs is not the fault of the regulators The Volokh Conspiracy » Now that the Government has Proved as Incompetent
Only an emotionally incompetent person would persist in repeating the pass over and over again. Times, Sunday Times
Lanegan's personal narrative, the euphoric highs and ravaged lows of the junkie, the fretful pining of the love incompetent and the poetic musings of the maverick outsider, are poignantly realised.
I really want to replace my lovely Pentax SLR with a moderately competent equivalent.
He will be able to pick serious and competent people who will do a disinterested and professional job as UN rapporteurs.
Lay people comprise a competent team of premarital counselors. Christianity Today
The experts, who often are referred to as “elites,” were to be a machinery of knowledge that circumvents the primary defect of democracy, the impossible ideal of the “omnicompetent citizen”. Pigs fly, and the Times chides Obama on the oil spill
The competent departments shall report the names of the tunnels, subways and urban transit stations and lines to the Municipal Place-name Office.
Ok, so because the fools in the ANC gave these cushy jobs to their incompetent pals, I now have to pay 3x the price for electricity to bale Eskom out of the dwang! Guardian Online
The thing about corruption or cronyism is that it's almost impossible to prove, unless its done very incompetently.
The competent authorities in the Member States may permit the transporter or the owner of the products to provide a guarantee in place of that provided by the authorized warehouse keeper of dispatch.
Why this inquiry, which demands the equipment of a competent phonologist, has not attracted more American scholars I do not know. Preface 2. Preface to the Revised Edition
In that sense it is a two-edged sword, because some members of the opposition are just as idle and incompetent as some of those in government.
The involvement of the competent authority is thus essential to the existence and nature of any coinage system.
Reports that Scotland Yard are also to investigate Mr Brown with regard to a charge of 'Impersonating a Competent Politician', and the lesser charge of 'Impersonating a Human Being' remain unconfirmed. Gordon Brown in Further Financial Scandal
The competent authority should promptly inform the seafarer of the right to make such a request.
What it means is that a competent authority, presumably ASIO, assessed him as an adverse security risk.
If the circumstances are relatively minor, the offender shall be given a disciplinary sanction according to the circumstances by his unit or competent authorities at higher level.
The corrected reticulocyte index should be elevated in patients with an acute anemia but a competent bone marrow.
I think the ratio of dumb fucking student displaying true features of mongolism clearly outweighs the number of incompetent professors. The great education debate
How do you find your niche, that area in which you can become competent? Christianity Today
I would not fire it another time until I had it checked by a competent gunsmith, because that much headspace is a definate safety hazzard to the gun, you, and anyone standing nearby. Paper Versus Meat
Sometimes the war was hot and active; other times it was cold and passive; but the threat of national annihilation by a ruthless and competent foe was ever-present.
Planes, trains and automobiles have all been hit by incompetent management on mega salaries failing to clear runways, tracks and roads. The Sun
Measures for the motivation and organization for blood donation by active-duty service personnel shall be worked out by the competent department of health of the Chinese People's Liberation Army.
How long before someone charismatic, competent, and efficient takes charge of one of these wacko organizations?
He was a competent woodsman and would have had no problem traveling inland through the bush and back into mainland civilization anonymously.
With similar financial strictures, he had hired a competent secretary for two days a week. Christianity Today
Is it good for patients or victims of crime to have to deal with incompetent doctors or police officers? Times, Sunday Times
But above all, his mistake was to assume that he had done enough to win simply by being competent in office and by bequeathing a healthy economy.
Does "antisocialist" really expect us to believe that the Justice Department under Bush II was a "competent tribunal"? The Nation: Top Stories
A competent catalogue with the usual high-quality illustrations and commentary accompanies the exhibition.
She was mentally competent and she had the capacity to decide for herself.
In ipsa uero ecclesia. in aliqquo loco intermedio inter sorores et exteriores aptetur aliqua fenestra ferrea competentis magnitudinis. in qua fiant sermones: et in aliquo loco apto due fenestre paruule ferrate ad confessiones audiendas. Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany
Yet "Great Soul" also obligingly gives readers more than enough information to discern that he was a sexual weirdo, a political incompetent and a fanatical faddist—one who was often downright cruel to those around him. Among the Hagiographers
Suddenly, it becomes possible for the computer to tease out from the most incompetent practitioner his own masterpiece.
The author is no great prose stylist but the writing is competent and fluent.
But 43 per cent of all drivers admit they only feel competent enough to drive short distances. The Sun
Yet any half-competent peterman with a sectional jemmy would have ripped it open inside five minutes. A QUESTION OF PRINCIPLE
Down the line, officials are lazy and incompetent. The Sun
Only the blindest of ideologues could look at this situation and think the government is to blame, let alone to blame on the same order of magnitude as our incompetent response to the flooding in New Orleans. The Volokh Conspiracy » Now that the Government has Proved as Incompetent
As well as being competent fighters, they were trained to use their magic to block magic in others.
This awful expression refers to a firm's or a person's fundamental strength-even though that's not what the word "competent" means. Forbes.com: News
A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity. Robert A. Heinlein
Secondly, he is sitting upon a pitchfork and refuses to move himself, or thirdly he is a silly, juvenile incompetent and has no place in this Chamber.
A competent mechanic should be able to fix the problem.
But exemplary and dedicated teachers surrounded by incompetents will soon grow demoralized, and effective teachers will shun under-performing schools.
This interdict, which is borrowed, except for a few minor modifications, from c. viii, "De privilegiis", in VI of Boniface VIII, is therefore reserved to the competent prelate. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent
Brahms' waltzes for piano duet were shared out amongst our very competent pianists who, in turn, moved seamlessly up to play first the primo, them the secundo of the waltzes as they progressed.
After reading an article in a daily newspaper this week I am left to conclude that our elected leaders are a bunch of fools, incompetents and idiots (take your pick as to who falls into which category).
The Prime Minister is incompetent to govern the country.
He had a lifelong interest in aviation and was a competent pianist. Times, Sunday Times
Besides this, Heidegger includes all sciences into a homogenic and homological group, the totality of science, which seems to be, not only a coarse judgment, but also simply a totally blind and incompetent misjudgment. Enowning
… patients risked being treated by doctors who were incompetent or were not fluent in English. [snipped] European regulations which allow free movement of labour mean the GMC is unable to carry out clinical or language checks on doctors from EU countries as it does for those from elsewhere in the world., by Nick Triggle, BBC News VDARE.com: Blog Articles
Included in the patient population were immunocompetent adults receiving ventilatory support in hospital or long-term care settings.
I knew enough to see that the text was a nest of problems which competent scholars could go on investigating, but I had lost my path through the maze.
They're not actually rude or deliberately slack (unlike some of the Cafe Uno staff), just dubiously competent.
Yes, they must excite, energise and enthuse competent individuals.
To do her justice, the hotel heiress does a competent job of the task required of her.
I had explained to Msgr. Moretti that, due to the incompetent states of my own superiors, my request for exclaustration could not possibly be processed in a proper manner. Clerical Whispers
But still a shadow and resemblance of it was retained; and in the papal church itself to this day, particular confessors are esteemed competent judges of the meetness of their penitents for an admission unto the sacraments of their church. A Discourse concerning Evangelical Love, Church Peace, and Unity
Yet is there no competent Judge that findeth them wanting in those Ancient ones, and that doth not much more admire that smoothly equall neatnesse, continued sweetnesse, and flourishing comelinesse of Catullus his Epigrams, than all the sharpe quips and witty girds wherewith Martiall doth whet and embellish the conclusions of his. Of Bookes.
Not only has this person proved incompetent but her references were false. Times, Sunday Times
The secret of freedom will be found in the individual 'making himself the depository of the powers respecting himself, so far as he is competent to them, and delegating only what is beyond his competence, by a synthetical process, to higher and higher orders of functionaries, so as to trust fewer and fewer powers in proportion as the trustees become more and more oligarchical.' Barack Obama's new line: "Yes we can."
The ability of your children to have a positive emotional reaction begins with a firm grounding in their feeling loved, secure, and competent, in other words, their self-esteem. Dr. Jim Taylor: Freak Out or Geek Out?: Children's Emotional Reactions to Achievement
In the presence of a competent immune response the parasite encysts.
I suppose my application has been lost by some incompetent bureaucrat.
December 4th, 2005 at 8: 47 pm wwallace says: afterthought is corrupt and incompetent. Think Progress » McCain: Murtha â€œHas Become Too Emotionalâ€
I am simply too incompetent, too inexperienced and too unfit to be let anywhere near anything you can fall off.
And the Jersey driver remains a prominent folk devil all over the Northeast: bumptious, heedless, hostile and barely competent.
Police officers are becoming more polite, attentive and competent, according to a new survey.
It doesn't actually make me feel more competent, but it's cool anyhow.
She was mentally competent and she had the capacity to decide for herself.
She is not a competent driver and can't cope with driving in heavy traffic.
However, before dismissing the generals as mere incompetent buffoons, we must establish the context.
The foreperson was a competent, extremely well organized young African-American woman, a young professional or junior executive. American Thinker
A man-child with a high-pitched voice, his brilliant acidic wit shields the petrified innocence of someone incompetent at everything except moving furniture and writing.
He knew that this stout, handsome, competent woman, who could outcurse a British sergeant of marines, had a good and gentle heart. Ishmael
But mark my words: you'll be branded as an incompetent for having made this small slip.
The second day that is after you walk, the incompetent physicians of the drum building area hospital give you of cause of death:Hook seasonal disease -hang up to carry a helicoid disease.
The government performed competently in the face of multiple challenges.
In theory it is possible for competent adults to appoint a proxy to act on their behalf by granting them a power of attorney.
In ipsa uero ecclesia. in aliqquo loco intermedio inter sorores et exteriores aptetur aliqua fenestra ferrea competentis magnitudinis. in qua fiant sermones: et in aliquo loco apto due fenestre paruule ferrate ad confessiones audiendas. Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany
I had always considered myself a strong, competent woman.
Is this Government so slack, so lax, and so incompetent that it has not actually considered that issue before today?
Hundreds of incompetent decisions are made in the Kremlin and White House (government headquarters) ... in precisely this 'noiseless' fashion without public discussion or criticism," liberal politician Vladimir Ryzhkov wrote in The Moscow Times. Yahoo! News: Latest news headlines News Headlines | Top Stories
But most were at least competent, some outstanding.
She will need years of love and undoubtedly competent and caring professional help to ensure her complete recovery.
The subject DCI is probably playing the game because he is hoping for a promotion before he retires … but is he still competent at his present level? Tears Of A Clown « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
In a letter the procurator fiscal raised no objection to this, but in court the Crown argued, and the sheriff accepted, that the motion was incompetent.
Do not feel like you are less qualified or less competent to be able to do the job because you are different. Times, Sunday Times
'For the good Larth' would be more competently translated into Etruscan as either *Larθus mlac (genitive of giving) or *Larθe-ri mlac (locative with postposition -ri 'for'). A little note on Etruscan adjectives and case agreement
Atom was a very competent driver, so I opted for lightly catnapping for most of the trip.

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