She's extremely competent and industrious - an asset to the department.
It's a competent enough piece of writing but it has no flair.
Charlie can cope here without you - he's perfectly competent.
They are a very competent group of people, but they lack flexibility and originality.
All the others were competent, though too often telling us what we have long known already.
However, the application of a primitive dictionary is not always sufficient; auxiliary data must often be considered to make a competent translation.
In this situation, voters face a standard inference problem of predicting the unobservable type (whether competent or not) of the incumbent from the observable policy.
