Sentences with phrase «better than competent»

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There are many skills and traits that form a good leader, some of which I'm admittedly more competent in than others.

I happen to be competent as well, but being liked is far more useful to me than knowing what I'm doing.

According to U.S. best practices, nonprofit boards should be comprised of at least five people who have little overlap with an organization's staff or other related parties.70 However, there is only weak evidence that following these best practices is correlated with success, and if they are correlated, that may be because more competent organizations are more likely to both follow best practices and to succeed — rather than because following best practices leads to success.

Some competent observers even hold the opinion that Islamic religious life has better prospects in India than in Pakistan.

Not much more than ten years ago a competent student of mine at the University of Chicago who had done good experimental work trying to help addicts wrote his B. D. essay on this subject.

«As the conscious and legally competent entity in the conception set - up, it's the woman's say that counts, and even the most terrible reason for having an abortion holds more sway than the best imaginable reason for compelling a woman to carry to term.»

As far as a student or seminarian is concerned the book is well worth the cover price for the bibliography and end notes alone, and it is a more than competent introduction to the field.

Perhaps best remembered for his error against the USA four years ago, Green has an unfortunate reputation for the calamitous but on more than one occasion has shown himself to be a competent and reliable goalkeeper, such as at QPR this seeason

It is a risk of course, as is Arsene Wenger telling the world his tactical thoughts ahead of the game, because the home side are fairly competent going forward as well, but I think the reason the boss has gone for this game plan rather than try to be defensive as we did there famously a few years ago, is because of the return to fitness of Sead Kolasinac.

I want improvement at AFC and while I will recognise that Wenger makes tactical errors, I feel we need to blame the right person for transfers otherwise we will not get the change we need, someone competent in the CEO role and someone who can get the job (transfer) done working for him (someone better than Dick Law).

Szcz is replaceable, that's the difference, we have TWO competent goalies (who have performed arguably better than him when called upon) to take his place when he has a howler unlike in defence where it's whoever is fittest gets to play at the moment.

I feel competent people want wenger in or atleast let him finish his contract this writer wrote facts were winning silverware and no matter what we win or how far we make it the wenger outs just need that negative element to feed they make it obvious when they have no facts to stand on oyher than we lost a final that we beat last years champions to get into and lost to this years champion who have been the best team in england not much to stand on

So you need a competent to good RG more than a game changing one.

Similar to Vorm, Dier dealt with the danger of Perez, Cabella and Obertan well enough when called up and showed that he is slowly developing into a good central defender, as well as a good right back who is defensively more competent than Walker, more experienced than Yedlin and just flat out better than Chiriches.

Despite much of the British media doing complex mental gymnastics to explain why Paul Pogba is, in fact, not good, he's really a star: In baseball, shortstops and center fielders are inherently more valuable than other players because they occupy premium defensive positions, and the same goes for a competent defensive midfielder like Pogba, who's an elegant hurricane with the ball at his feet and can provide consistent attacking output from a position where it's not expected.

Centre manager Karen Keenan says assessments, including residential stays of an average of 12 weeks, make no assumptions about whether children are likely to be «better off» with mum, dad or both, but take a firm line that fathers are important: «We start from the point of view of the child, and over many years we've found that often it's the father, rather than the mother, who is the more competent or promising parent of the two.»

Because children who spend much less time watching the tube have been found to be more socially competent, as well as more academically competent, and not to mention more creative and imaginative than their television - educated peers.

The actual reasons seems to be the polls were wrong, which means Labour's defeat is suddenly pretty easy to explain: people did not have a positive perception of their party leader, people did not think they were competent on what they considered two of the three major issues of the day (the economy and immigration) and even in the area Labour normally have better figures than the Tories, perceptions of the party itself, people increasingly saw them as out of touch with ordinary people.

The new leader's performance at Prime Minister's Questions was a good deal more competent than many expected — even if, by politely reading out questions emailed in by Labour supporters, he had effectively appointed himself the moderator of a national weekly edition of Cameron Direct, the public meeting format in which the PM excels.

In a couple of weeks where even the mainstream press have admitted that corbyn has done far better than expected you have one article from a lib dem attacking him as a Tory and then this one which tries to equate labour's reasonable (with the exception of Diane Abbott) competent and well thought out campaign with Theresa May's car crash.

One of the best ways to learn about proper exercise form (other than hands - on experience from a competent personal trainer) is by watching exercise videos.

Velocity of speech counts as well as volume: we rank fast talkers as more competent and likable than slow ones.

What better reward for an otherwise competent, allegedly intelligent woman than a slope - browed Neanderthal womanizer with perfect hair?

Never a particularly stylish or inventive director, Hudlin directs Marshall with smooth, competent, but ultimately anonymous efficiency, periodically dropping in clunky color desaturated, conflicting flashbacks better suited for second - or third - rate basic cable fare than a big - screen biopic of a Civil Rights pioneer.

Peter Berg's a competent director and I think this looks like more of a retarded good time than any of the Transformers movies.

This movie is rarely more than merely competent, but it should stir lovers of justice as well as dog fanciers.

Instead we have a perfectly competent rhythm game, one which arguably works better on iOS than it does on consoles, but which fails to take f...

But somehow, you put Cruise in the middle of it, connect this to his charisma, his personal baggage and all his well - known outings, and the polished, competent film becomes more than watchable.

«A perfectly competent platformer, perhaps Yoshi's best since Super Mario World 2, but one that is far less unique than its visuals suggest» said The Metro before handing out a solid yet unspectacular 7/10.

The competent action sequences borrow the cinematic language of the western as well as the war movie — these are heavily armed cowboys, whooping their way into the fray, dodging missiles rather than arrows.

The decision to elevate such dully competent, glossily empty fare as Joachim Trier's Louder Than Bombs to premier - league status serves, if nothing else, as a sobering reminder that those days are gone for good.

If industry would stop offering higher salaries and better working conditions than what schools do to the mathematically competent, we might attract and retain more excellent teachers of mathematics.

Those accomplishments are more meaningful when they are authentic, and feeling competent is itself a meaningful reward — better than a collection of stickers or small trinkets or much too scarcely distributed recognitions like «student of the month,» which can lead the majority of students to become resigned to failure despite effort.

Obama could make the case to teachers that they would be better served by unions that prioritize higher pay rather than job security for the least competent members.

Collaboration in recruitment among school districts, institutions of higher education and community is more effective than going at it alone in identifying alternative pools of teacher candidates — those who are experienced, culturally competent and with better understanding of language - minority children.

More than ever, the field of education requires teachers and leaders from diverse backgrounds who are culturally competent and well prepared to address the most difficult challenges in public education.

Despite the X3's competent chassis, it's not a car you're likely to use out of anything other than utility - and in that scenario, we'd still rather opt for BMW's own outstandingly well - rounded 5 - series Touring.

With a well - sorted chassis, a competent suspension, and a quiet cabin, the new Passat's best qualities pertain to ride quality more than to handling.

I will say that the ELR made the jump from killer concept to production car better than the Volt, and it does represent a competent, futuristic application of well - established Cadillac design cues.

The Impreza five - door hatchback is a competent hatchback that is much better than its predecessor.

There was one sales manager there who was exceptionally competent, but the other employees I dealt with were pushy and more concerned with getting good reviews on their work than actually doing good work.

Powering the 2012 GMC Terrain SUV is a competent 4 - cylinder engine admittedly better at impressing with its fuel economy than its passing prowess.

[36] While David Swigg of Motor Trend said «With a competent driver at the wheel and the traction control switched off, many Boxster drivers would be hard - pressed to post better lap times than with this Z.» [37] Top Gear magazine later awarded the Nissan Designers with the 2004 Top Gear Magazine Car of the year award.

I put forth the modest proposal that Audi's new A6 offers more value for the money than any other mid-sized imported sports sedan.If you can live without a $ 900 automatic transmission and a $ 490 all - weather package that includes heated seats and door locks as well as a few other items, you can park this extremely competent mid-size sports sedan in your garage for about $ 31,000 and change.That places the A6 at roughly $ 5,000 to $ 8,000 less than competitive cars from German manufacturers Mercedes - Benz and BMW, and Japan's Lexus and Infiniti.

When I moved here they serviced my old car The service staff is very good They have a Quick Lube Line for oil change The price for oil change is less than places like Jiffy Lube The sales staff is friendly and competent and the same people are still there

Forget local radio stations, pop in a Flock of Seagulls CD and experience the standard audio system's competent bass and treble reproduction, with better - than - expected sound imaging.

In summary, assuming that your financial advisor is competent, hiring two advisors to execute one financial plan might cause more harm than good.

They have a well - regarded product with much more competent and friendly customer service than most legacy airlines.

The goofballs working were, well, less than competent.

Even though it has competent mechanics, flat out there isn't enough content to see you playing for more than a couple of hours, especially when there are full retail games out there with similar game modes bundled in as well as with full campaigns and full multiplayer offerings for the same, or lower, price.