11 sentences with “competent”

The team of doctors is highly competent.

We need a competent leader to manage the project.

He is a competent and well-recognized lawyer in his field.

The next emperor was Claudius (r. 41 - 54 CE), the only truly competent emperor of the Julian line after Augustus.

Once in power, Claudius proved to be a competent and refreshingly sane emperor, putting an end to the waves of terror that Caligula had unleashed.

However, the majority of Muslims, known as Sunnis ("traditionalists"), held that any sufficiently upright and competent leader could be appointed caliph.

Tiberius was a reasonably competent emperor for over a decade, delegating decisions to the Senate and ensuring that the empire remained secure and financially solvent.

A murderous leader named Basil I, originally from Macedonia, took the throne in 867 and initiated a line of ruthless but competent leaders who ruled for some two hundred years.

Even for a physician as competent and self-confident as Dr. Epstein, the brain stem is very difficult terrain. Even today, some tumors in that region of the brain are inoperable.

In 1215, a much less competent king named John I signed the Magna Carta ("great charter") with the English nobility that formally recognised the feudal privileges of the nobility, towns and clergy.

Instead, she argued, history provided a vast catalogue of women who had been moral, pious, intelligent and competent, and that it was men's pride and men's refusal to allow women to be properly educated that held them back.