Sentences with phrase «than competent as»

Kolasinac is a versatile defender who is mostly utilised at left - back, but is more than competent as a central defender or in midfield.

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One recent (if small study) that followed a diverse group 183 teens who attended public high school for a decade, starting in middle school, found that «by the age of 22, these «cool kids» are rated as less socially competent than their peers.

The Acer Chromebook R11 is no exception, but for less than $ 300, it's about as competent as it gets.

Do you think you will be unmasked as less competent than you present yourself?

Despite the overall perception that younger workers are less competent, the U.K. study also highlighted a seeming contradiction: three times as many respondents would rather work for a «suitably qualified» 30 - year - old boss than a 70 - year - old one.

«Those aged over 70 are viewed by people as more friendly, more competent and as having higher moral standards than those in their 20s,» the researchers noted.

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

As for the somewhat chaotic condition in the Vatican in the latter years of the pontificate — not to mention the poor preparation for the 2012 pilgrimage to Mexico and Cuba, which seems to have had an impact far beyond the Caribbean — why did Pope Benedict not ind himself a more competent «prime minister» than Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, whose record as Secretary of State the pope emeritus continues to defend in Last Testament: a defence that may be admirable as personal loyalty, but is inexplicable otherwisAs for the somewhat chaotic condition in the Vatican in the latter years of the pontificate — not to mention the poor preparation for the 2012 pilgrimage to Mexico and Cuba, which seems to have had an impact far beyond the Caribbean — why did Pope Benedict not ind himself a more competent «prime minister» than Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, whose record as Secretary of State the pope emeritus continues to defend in Last Testament: a defence that may be admirable as personal loyalty, but is inexplicable otherwisas Secretary of State the pope emeritus continues to defend in Last Testament: a defence that may be admirable as personal loyalty, but is inexplicable otherwisas personal loyalty, but is inexplicable otherwise?

The bill allows «mentally competent» patients with less than 6 months to live to get prescription drugs that would speed up the dying process, as long as two doctors agree the patient qualifies.

Whatever doubts may exist about the sources of this democracy, there can be none about the chief source of the morality that gives it life and substance... [From the Hebrew tradition, via the Puritans, come] the contract and all its corollaries; the higher law as something more than a «brooding omnipresence in the sky»; the concept of the competent and responsible individual; certain key ingredients of economic individualism; the insistence on a citizenry educated to understand its rights and duties; and the middle - class virtues, that high plateau of moral stability on which, so Americans believe, successful democracy must always build [Seedtime of the Republic (Harcourt, Brace, 1953, p. 55)-RSB-.

On purely moral issues, judges are no more competent or trustworthy, as Justice Scalia observed in Cruzan, the Missouri «right to die» case, than «nine people picked at random from the Kansas City telephone directory.»

More than this, he was sensitive to the fact that the writing of philosophy's history can be at once technically competent and narrow He praised the «philosophical greatness achieved in American philosophy, from Peirce to Santayana, but he complained of the cultural chauvinism in failing to recognize it.5 According to Hartshorne, «One might about as easily reach great heights in philosophy without benefit of the work done in modern America as to reach them in physics without using the work of modern Germans» (Creativity 11).

He says, «My read is that Bachmann supporters who are worried about conservative authenticity think of Perry as more authentic than Romney, and Romney voters who are worried about governing competence think that Perry is more competent....

«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 fielAs 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 fielas 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.

For psychiatrists who are competent (or who can convince potential patients of their competence), private practice has been a more lucrative alternative to hospital or center work ever since the public accepted psychiatrists as experts on the problems of living rather than merely on psychoses.

If this difference is not comprehended, the Isaiah model must be discarded, for it will seem that God's goodness is only more than man's, as a space module is more competent in space than an old piston airplane, and this is not what the qualifier «infinitely» means.

And as a neutral, there are few sights more enjoyable in the world than aggressively competent people doing aggressively incompetent things.

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

The Gunners are more than competent to do this job successfully as they'll not only be efficient and creative in this game, but will convert a large percentage of the chances they've created into goals to hammer the West Hammers with their own very hammers by: WHFC 0 - 5 AFC @ FT 90m +.

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.

For some reason, though, I'm hoping that Chen is more than that, a pitcher who serves as sort of a baseline for interesting and competent.

His new side went onto lose that match 4 - 3, but he was not blamed as being central to the result, and has since shown he is more than competent in defence with two impressive displays alongside Laurent Koscielny.

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.

Yes, a home birth with a competent attendant would be safer than an unattended home birth or an incompetent attendant, but it won't be and can't be as safe as a hospital birth.

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.

A mother who gives up on breastfeeding because she allowed herself to be talked into something that was less than perfect for her baby, is likely to find that her self image as a competent mother is compromised.

As Jennifer Block mentions in her response to the Daily Beast, we know from more than half a dozen large - scale studies carried out in several different countries, including England and the Netherlands (where almost a third of babies are born at home), that planned home birth with competent attendants is as safe as or safer than hospital birtAs Jennifer Block mentions in her response to the Daily Beast, we know from more than half a dozen large - scale studies carried out in several different countries, including England and the Netherlands (where almost a third of babies are born at home), that planned home birth with competent attendants is as safe as or safer than hospital birtas safe as or safer than hospital birtas or safer than hospital birth.

Ed Balls, Krugman, Stiglitz etc seem to me to be much more likely to have got it right than Mr Osborne who, prior to the GE, was repeatedly rated by the city as being less competent than Vince Cable or Darling.

«Switchers to the Tories were more likely than Defectors as a whole to say they had been put off by the impression that Labour were not ready to form a competent government.

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.

Mike Homfray no in every is talking about bringing a blairite leader back, you're half right on 2001 and 2005although William Hague was competent and electable unlike Michael foot (but you say benefited us in 2005, yet you weren't a member in 2005 so you meant benefited you) not any leader would have won in 97 ′ as Kinnock lost to john Major and Kinnock got more votes in 92 than Wilsoj in 74 ′ Callaghan in 79 and a lot more than foot.

Ken Livingstone is almost slightly more likely than Boris Johnson to be seen as competent and in touch.

Ayine then runs to the only place he is competent in showing how knowledgeable he is as a lawyer rather than before the Supreme Court — the print and electronic media — and he charges me with being a liar.

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.

Labour seems most confident in parading our values in debating with the Tories but we should be less abashed in doing so when squaring off against the Greens, UKIP and the SNP, while being more confident in our capacity to present ourselves as a more competent party of government than the Tories.

Additionally, «feminine» engineers — straight women and gay men alike — are stereotyped as less competent than «masculine» — straight men and gay women — engineers.

A recent study by Joan Y. Chiao, then at Northwestern University, a founder of the new field of cultural neuroscience, found that voters perceive male candidates as more competent and dominant than female ones, based on facial features alone.

Women in STEM jobs report an array of experiences with discrimination including being treated as if they were not competent (29 %); earning less than their male counterparts for the same job (29 %); experiencing repeated, small slights at work (20 %); and receiving less support from senior leaders than a man doing the same job (18 %).

The presence of a tear made all the difference; people perceived the tearful person as sadder, warmer — but also less competent — than the very same person when the tears had been edited out.

As the body becomes a more and more competent fat - burner, its levels of energy become very stable — much more stable than someone whose body is only capable of burning sugar.

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

A more than competent journeyman, Carstairs specialized in mysteries (such as the 1939 Anglo - American production The Saint in London) and frothy comedies.

As a game, MLB 2K6 feels more than competent, but it fails to excel.

The filmmakers went into this project insisting that all the actors do their own singing, and while «crooners» like Pierce Brosnan and Colin Firth (let alone Stellan Skarsgård, who is very, very brave to have done his own singing) are not going to go down in history as much more than barely competent, star Meryl Streep, who has already proven her musical chops theatrically and previously in such films as Postcards from the Edge, is marvelous, if a bit too country - yodelish for this patently pop score.

While not as impressive, the film's DTS - HD MA 5.1 soundtrack was more than competent for a tale of this sort.

And Rampling's banal Matron is a figure of evil professionalism, a competent, qualified, licensed sadist who views brainwashing her students as a routine obligation more than a turn - on.

Travis Fimmel in the lead as Ragnar Lothbrok is great and the rest of the actors are more than competent.

There's little doubt such attributes, coupled with Will Smith's typically engrossing work, goes a long way towards compensating for the ineffectiveness of the younger Smith's performance, as the fledgling actor's less - than - competent turn ensures that Kitai simply never becomes the dynamic, charismatic lead character that one might've expected (and hoped for).

Lin quickly regained his reputation as a more - than - competent helmer of action spectacles, and his firm hold on the tone of the universe and those characters makes it one of the few movies I'm looking forward to revisiting soon.