Sentences with phrase «safe pair of»

They want someone who is calm, resilient and a safe pair of hands and they will use the interview situation and occasionally some pre-interview tests to check how you perform under pressure.

A hugely popular practitioner, Chris McLeod is «technically excellent, pragmatic and sensible and a safe pair of hands for trademark tasks».

«Tenacious» team head Emma Scourfield has «very good medical knowledge» and is a «safe pair of hands», particularly in relation to high - value clinical negligence matters.

Frank Pinch («very experienced and a safe pair of hands») heads the department, and is supported by «very able and intelligent» senior associate Gabrielle Ross, who is singled out for her «first - rate client care», as well as associate Anna Higham and new associate Esther Wilkinson, who joined from Irwin Mitchell.

Dividing her time between Oxford and Reading, department head Emily Boardman also leads the public law and adoption team and is a «safe pair of hands» for care proceedings relating to non-accidental injury, death and sexual abuse allegations.

Legal 500 2017 reconfirmed Renato's position as a «Leading Individual», describing him as «outstanding», «knowledgeable yet sensitive», and «an exceptionally safe pair of hands».

Adrian Chadwick is described by one source as someone «who knows the market well and is a safe pair of hands.»

The biggest compliment the company has ever received from any client has been to continue to be generally regarded as «a safe pair of hands» who think on their feet and extract results where other firms may have fallen short.

We have a 99 % success rate so you're in a safe pair of hands.

Ken Simons has been the safe pair of hands behind the scenes of some of the most popular exhibitions at Tate Liverpool since it opened in 1988.

However, after the agitation of heavy politicking behind the scenes by the ambitious painter, art historian and educationist Lawrence Gowing on his own behalf, the trustees selected Norman Reid, thought of as the ultimate safe pair of hands - and rather more, as it turned out - thus delivering a blow for which Robertson was never quite able to forgive either Gowing or life.

has proved a safe pair of hands.

She's got a safe pair of hands in Brian Beecraft (Finance Director since 1998), while Safetell & Grosvenor have traditionally operated on a fairly autonomous basis.

After all, it's important for professional training companies to present themselves as capable, trustworthy, and a safe pair of hands.

Operating from a network of local offices and depots across the UK, Norse is today recognised by the education sector as a safe pair of hands; a reputation clearly justified and evidenced by the group's 96 % client satisfaction, high business retention and staff retention, all well above the national averages for the industry.

It now feels like a star vehicle, so worried about the lasting power of Jumanji that it has relied too much on Dwayne Johnson's safe pair of hands.

Dwayne Johnson is the kind of actor that literally gives forth this idea of a safe pair of hands.

At the other were there were those who felt that he at least represented a fairly safe pair of hands.

Opening up the theatrical battle of wits with measured restraint to show the behind - the - scenes manoeuvring, director Ron Howard (Hollywood's definitive «safe pair of hands») invests everything in the strength of his practised leads, Michael Sheen and Frank Langella.

Director Ron Howard, who took over mid-production from Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, is Hollywood's ultimate safe pair of hands, and he delivers on the script by Jonathan and Lawrence Kasdan.

She exudes charm but does not look as if she would necessarily be a safe pair of hands with a tray.

Petersen has been eclectic when choosing composers in the past, but seemed to get a safe pair of hands here with James Newton Howard, who wasn't exactly the A-lister he is today, but had a solid enough body of work behind him on this kind of film.

Throughout his career he has been the epitome of «a safe pair of hands», someone who is good at churning out family - friendly, inoffensive mush which will please studio executives at the cost of dulling an audience's imagination.

It's the classic example of a studio playing it safe, putting a potentially lucrative property in a safe pair of hands, who will in turn deliver something which will offend the least amount of people and thereby create the widest possible market.

A safe pair of hands on and off the pitch, retired football legend David Seaman, 53, doesn't like to flash his cash.

It was great knowing me and my baby were in a safe pair of hands

He had a reputation at Wapping for being a safe pair of hands.

The shorthand caricature of the new chancellor of the exchequer is that he is the ultimate safe pair of hands in government: a hardworking, technocratic colleague who will happily and conscientiously take good care of tricky ministries.

«The obligatory description of the ex-chancellor is that he is a «safe pair of hands» (generally accompanied by reminders that a trucking magazine once awarded him the title of «most boring politician» two years in a row).

It's meant somewhat pejoratively, but «safe pair of hands» turns out to mean sleek, tanned, straight - talking — and yes, safe, in that one can easily imagine panicking bankers and prime ministers turning to him for answers and calm.

The most plausible explanation is that they are being won back by perceptions of Conservative party competence in running the economy and that Ukip is not a safe pair of hands.

A quiet, unassuming, safe pair of hands he was — along with Gordon Brown and Jack Straw — one of only 3 MPs to serve in the cabinet continuously from 1997 to 2010 (more information at They work for you)

Javid has been a fairly safe pair of hands in his previous positions.

Building on this, Team May will now look to stress the home secretary's credentials as a safe pair of hands who has thought through all of the issues relating to EU withdrawal - and has consulted with relevant figures in the world of business.

David Waddington was home secretary and chief whip in Thatcher's government, and regarded as a safe pair of hands.

Davidson continued to speak for various government departments with authority and without slip - ups, and when Denham decided in 1991 to retire, Davidson, one of only two names in the frame for the job, was regarded as a safe pair of hands.

Sir Menzies Campbell is crowned Liberal Democrat leader, vowing to be more than a «safe pair of hands».

He also declared he was indeed a safe pair of hands, as often claimed as a disguised criticism, but someone who was prepared to take risks to win power and modernise the party.

Having had experience heading up the foreign office, defence and transport over the past six years without ever courting scandal, Hammond's reputation as a safe pair of hands is well established.

Cruddas concludes that voters backed the Tories because they were seen as a safe pair of hands, despite the underlying injustices many see in British economic life.

Philip Hammond has a reputation as a low - key politician with a slightly dry personality who can be trusted as a safe pair of hands — a particularly useful skill - set as he navigates the UK away from a Brexit - inspired slowdown.

She told the BBC's Daily Politics: «He promised us he would be the sensible, safe pair of hands after a very rough journey over the last couple of years with so many different leaders.

For much of her Parliamentary career she has been patronised by the men, and Rosa Prince gives the impression that Theresa May is moved around a lot because she was a safe pair of hands and the need to have at least one senior female Cabinet minister.

She looks sturdy and reliable - a safe pair of hands.

But there are no question marks over Mrs May, and unlike an unsettlingly long list of her predecessors, she is not considered an accident waiting to happen: quite the opposite, she appears to have mastered her brief and looks like a safe pair of hands.

The highest praise you can receive as a government minister is that you're «a safe pair of hands».

After the 2001 election, Blair moved him to the Foreign Office, perhaps out of a combined need for someone who was a «safe pair of hands» and who wouldn't challenge Blair as he became increasingly his own foreign secretary, a characteristic of many prime ministers.

Conservative politician regarded as a safe pair of hands who became deputy chief whip in the House of Lords

Yvette Cooper looks like safe pair of hands, exudes competence and has the poise to face David Cameron at the dispatch box.

This may well be why Cameron has picked her for the job: she is a safe pair of hands who can keep the agricultural lobby happy.