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Sentences ending with competent

I couldn't know, then, how soon I was to be made competent. [5]
I merely knew that she was my superior in fineness of mind, in the delicacy and subtlety of her intellect, but to fully measure her I was not competent. [5]
He was, however, commended as entirely competent. [4]
If they had come early, they would have found her ready and competent. [5]
Their authorship was claimed by most of the grown-up people who were alive at the time, and every claimant had one plausible argument in his favor, at least--to wit, he could have done the authoring; he was competent. [5]

Short sentences using competent

He was competent and satisfactory. [5]

Sentences containing competent two or more times

The mind not trained for that work is no more competent to do it than are lawyers and farmers competent to make successful clothes without learning the tailor's trade. [5]

More example sentences with the word competent in them

I said it would be a good idea to get some more garrisons to help him; but they said no, he had nothing to do but hold the place, and he was competent to do that, had done it two years already. [5]
They are done with a competent and discriminating art, and are faithful to the requirements of a state direction's proper and lawful office, which is to inform. [5]
The graver reader will not object to seeing the exact statement of a competent witness belonging to a by-gone century, confirmed as it is by all that we see about us. [6]
To those pupils who, like my brother Ludo, were pursuing the study of the sciences, he, the mathematician of the institute, must have been an unusually clear and competent teacher. [10]
In our time we have organized that scattered and wandering force and set it to work, and backed the business with capital, and concentrated it in few and competent hands, and the results are as we see. [5]
In our time we have organised that scattered and wandering force and set it to work, and backed the business with capital, and concentrated it in few and competent hands, and the results are as we see. [5]
And I, myself, was not able to say that I had seen it mentioned in a book; and yet the autumn foliage, with all other American scenery, has received full and competent attention. [5]
He was looked up to as possessing qualities superhuman in their nature, and so was competent to be the stay of the weak and their defence against the strong. [6]
I would not trouble you, if I could find any person or books competent to enlighten me on some of these singular matters which have so excited me. [6]
The results of trials by competent and honest physicians, not pledged to the system. [3]
It is a too frequent fault of our common-school system that, owing to inadequate pay and ignorant selections, the teachers are not competent to their responsible task. [4]
She was competent to treat it in all its phases: not merely those of personal interest, but those of duty to the broken Southern past, sentimentally dear to him, and practically absurd to her. [8]
Before I get to the higgledy-piggledy point, as Mr. Howells suggested I do, I want to thank you, gentlemen, for this very high honor you are doing me, and I am quite competent to estimate it at its value. [5]
His recent appointment to the command of a corps, by one so competent to judge as General Sherman, proves this. [7]
People coolly pretend to read it who would think themselves presumptuous if they pretended to interpret the hieroglyphics on the obelisks of Luxor--yet they are fully as competent to do the one thing as the other. [5]
He was competent to fill his clever father's place in every respect. [10]
She is getting to be a mighty competent singer. [5]
In respect to this large portion of Judge Douglas's speech in which he tries to show that in the controversy between himself and the Administration party he is in the right, I do not feel myself at all competent or inclined to answer him. [7]
It is in these words: "I have now shown, in the opinion of two competent judges, that the handwriting of the forged assignment differed from mine, and by one of them that it could not be mistaken for mine. [7]
Where hostility to the United States, in any interior locality, shall be so great and universal as to prevent competent resident citizens from holding the Federal offices, there will be no attempt to force obnoxious strangers among the people for that object. [7]
For instance: "During the past few years competent observers declare that the number of pilgrims to Benares has increased. [5]
And I trust that some competent observer will make, perhaps for this association, a philosophical study of it. [4]
I do not strike them out because they were not true or not well said, but because I find them better said by another man--and a man more competent to testify, too, because he belongs on the ground, and knows. [5]
By the United States law, no man could become a pilot unless two duly licensed pilots signed his application; and now there was nobody outside of the association competent to sign. [5]
Neither are the States especially interested competent to combine among themselves for the necessary operations. [5]
This expert is so rare that the most populous country can never have fifteen conspicuously and confessedly competent ones in stock at one time. [5]
It should be remembered that upon this board are General Gilmore, General Comstock, and General Suter, of the United States Engineers; Professor Henry Mitchell (the most competent authority on the question of hydrography), of the United States Coast Survey; B. [5]
And this is reasonable; we must suppose they are competent to protect their own interests, and it is only fair to let them do it. [7]
Theophilus had also quitted the scene with the Comes, leaving the work of devastation in the competent hands of the monks. [10]
Mr. Buckstone either promise to write your great speech for you or else get some other competent person to do it. [5]
To state the plain facts as they occurred, or might have occurred, and as they could actually be seen by a competent observer, would not make a story. [4]
With nothing but our non-existent capital to work with the book has no value for us, rich a prize as it will be to any competent house that gets it. [5]
This is the only competent alphabet in the world. [5]
The honeymoon lasts only an hour or two; then the queen divorces her husband and returns home competent to lay two million eggs. [5]
At the request of the States of Costa Rica and Nicaragua, a competent engineer has been authorized to make a survey of the river San Juan and the port of San Juan. [7]
Mr. Carvel was occupied in the interval in the acquirement of practical seamanship and the theory of maritime warfare under the most competent of instructors, John Paul Jones. [9]
But,--he said,--the greatest objection is this, that persons who have not made a professional study of theology are not competent to speak on such subjects. [6]
He had followed Mr. Cline, as I have mentioned, and was competent to practise Surgery. [3]
These things win me more than Italy's hundred galleries of priceless art treasures, because I can understand the one and am not competent to appreciate the other. [5]
But when a man that is competent brings the vast powers of science to bear, it's a different matter, a totally different matter, you see. [5]
It has been long believed, by many competent observers, that Puerperal Fever (so called) is sometimes carried from patient to patient by medical assistants. [3]
It was the last letter I was ever to receive from her bright head and her competent hand. [5]
When, in the last century, in England, the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Information, which accomplished so much good, was organized, this responsibility was felt, and competent hands prepared the popular books and pamphlets that were cheap in price and widely diffused. [4]
But if the Judge continues to put forward the declaration that there is an unholy and unnatural alliance between the Republicans and the National Democrats, I now want to enter my protest against receiving him as an entirely competent witness upon that subject. [7]
Laura was early instructed in the mysteries of society life by a competent mentor, and thus was preserved from troublesome mistakes. [5]
He is competent in many ways to teach a Bible class, but when it comes to veracity he is only thirty-five years old. [5]
By the time I was your age, Tom, I had chosen a profession, and was soon competent to enter upon it. [5]
At all events I think the above has been prescribed by the competent authority. [7]
Under the circumstances I may not be the most competent judge, but it appears to me to be a paper of great ability, and for the country's sake more than for my own I thank you for it. [7]
I shall remain here with their Majesties, only"--and here he hesitated doubtfully--"where shall I find a competent assistant? [10]
It is intimated here that he is a very ingenious man, and he, is a very competent financier. [5]
The main conclusion here arrived at, and now held by many naturalists who are well competent to form a sound judgment, is that man is descended from some less highly organised form. [1]
To look upon her, one might well suppose that she was competent to defend herself against any enemy she was like to have. [6]
Again and again have the most explicit statements been made by the most competent persons of the utter failure of all their trials, and there were the same abundant explanations offered as used to be for the Unguentum Armarium and the Metallic Tractors. [3]
Surely they could have invented and built a competent house, but they didn't. [5]
Indeed, so diligently had he applied himself, that when it came time for him to return to the West, he felt himself, at least in theory, competent to take charge of a division in the field. [5]
Now, if we had an alphabet that was adequate and competent, instead of inadequate and incompetent, things would be different. [5]
The public will give every honest and reasonably competent worker in the healing art a hearty welcome. [3]
And if he follows a competent guide he will see her again. [10]
Its truth or falsehood cannot be established by statistics, but it is an opinion gradually formed by experience, and the observation of men competent to judge, who have studied the problem close at hand. [4]
On these I did not feel myself competent to sit in judgment, for my personal taste in fiction, if I could be said to have had any, took another turn. [9]
The competent teachers contend not merely with the difficulty of the lack of books and the deficiencies of those in use, but with the more serious difficulty of the erroneous ideas of the function of text-books. [4]
It is generally conceded that what literature in America needs at this moment is honest, competent, sound criticism. [4]
There is no competent, and lasting, and real reform for him but to take away his whiskey entirely, and fill up his jug with Pitman's wholesome and undiseased alphabet. [5]
That would be competent, adequate, simplified spelling, in contrast to the clipping, the hair punching, the carbuncles, and the cancers which go by the name of simplified spelling. [5]
I was pronounced competent to paddle my own bicycle without outside help. [5]
Thought he was competent to manage his affair without my help, I reckon. [5]
I am not competent to criticize your views, and therefore what I offer is in justification of myself. [7]
I am not competent to criticise the stage or its tendency. [4]
Men are usually competent thinkers along the lines of their specialized training only. [5]
I don't mean by this to set up a comparison between Mark Twain and Shakespeare: I don't feel competent to do it; and I'm not at all sure that it could be done until Mark Twain's work shall have its fair share of historical perspective. [5]
The wages received by this great hive of employees are placed at the liberal figure meet and just for skilled and competent labor. [5]
But I am bound to add that some competent judges dispute this conclusion; for instance, M. Giard, in a series of papers in the 'Archives de Zoologie Experimentale,' for 1872. [1]
Both his parents being now dead, he was left with, he says, competent means; but his guardians regarding his estate more than himself, gave him full liberty and no money, so that he was forced to stay at home. [4]
I had always been diffident about horses, anyway, even those of the common altitudes, and I did not feel competent to hunt on a horse that went on stilts. [5]
My attention has been called to the letters he wrote to the Guardian, which I hear have been highly praised by competent critics, and I have ordered a set of them for the files of the library. [9]
One reason is, because there are a dozen that are recognizably competent to do that poem. [5]
She might not be competent, but the office was hers, anyway. [5]
This I have attempted to do, as far as the extreme complexity of the subject permits, from information derived from various sources; but a full essay on this subject by some competent ornithologist is much needed. [1]
Things are gradually and steadily taking shape inside the house, and nature is taking care of the outside in her ingenious and wonderful fashion--and she is competent and asks no help and gets none. [5]
Now here is a witness, who has known the prisoner from infancy, and is competent to testify upon the one point vital to her safety. [5]
He is certainly a most charming Bishop; the most benignant gentleman that ever put on lawn sleeves; yet stately too, and quite competent to check encroachments. [14]
But man, as a highly competent judge, Archbishop Whately remarks, "is not the only animal that can make use of language to express what is passing in his mind, and can understand, more or less, what is so expressed by another. [1]
For this purpose a competent force will be posted so as to prevent entrance and exit of vessels from the ports aforesaid. [7]

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