When in the opinion of the burgomasters and the plebeian councillors such a course was desirable, they were competent to convoke the juries of the trade companies, but before doing so they were bound to advise the aldermen.
People who are troubled with any of these ailments should not attempt to doctor themselves by taking drugs, but a competent physician should be consulted.
You are {168} then more competent to judge the honesty and falsity of man.
Miss Alexander is a strict disciplinarian, an excellent teacher, and is thoroughly competent to conduct the school for which she applies.
It was the opinion of most competent judges, even after the abolition of the Corn Laws, that English land would continue to rise in value.
He did not know that he had left three good and competent witnesses who were ready to take oath that he had brought to his rooms at midnight a woman of the half world and that he had later bought liquor and returned with it to his apartment.
But he had a feeling that perhaps Verden was not competent to judge.
It may be, as some competent observers are disposed to think, that the principle of nationality is gaining ground in Eastern countries, but it has certainly not as yet taken firm root.
Everything that you did was observed by one competent to bear witness of the facts, and I now ask you, William Winslow, whether you will drive me to bring forward that witness in a court of justice?
My father employs competent men to manage his business, and I certainly don't feel that I know enough to give them any suggestions.
At any rate the Duke proved a most competent engineer, guiding us with velvet touch through the steep inclines and sharp turns of the Guadarrama mountains.
We found the Infanta Isabela a clean splendid ship--her Captain competentand kind.
In it he has shown himself a fair and competent judge of this first celebrated work of Montesquieu.
Even after the great antiquity of the earth and its origin and development by a natural process were generally accepted, still man was believed, even by the most competent geologists, to have appeared only a few thousand years ago.
It must be remembered that these cases were selected by a shrewd and competent official, solely upon their criminal record, and not in the interests of any theory whatever.
Control of air pressure is never entrusted to any but the most reliable, competent and experienced man, as it is of the utmost importance that air pressure be maintained properly.
If they are by nature housewifely women, they will triumph over the faults of their early training, and after sundry mistakes and a good deal of unnecessary expenditure may develop into fairly competent housewives.
The true and competent housekeeper knows that there is no economy in this method of marketing, but the reverse.
This was the lack ofcompetent military officers, men with sufficient vision to co-operate effectively with the universities.
The great practical question became a matter of the detail of a competent army officer to the University.
A swimming team has also been organized under a competent coach, but it is probable that no great progress will be made until the completion of the tanks in the Union and the Gymnasium.
Corneille and Moliere and Racine labored side by side, and only Boileau was competent to interpret and to encourage them.
Still, I don't have no apprehensions, but thinks to myself that any bull which can eat half a ton of hay for breakfast certainly is competent to take in a couple of wagon-loads of peanuts for five o'clock tea.
Perfected himself in scoundrelism in the competent finishing schools of the Far East.
To have a sufficient number of divisions, or relay parties, each under the leadership of a competent assistant, to send back at appropriate and carefully calculated stages along the upward journey.
No man was more intimately acquainted with the inside history of the revolutionary movement, or so competentto record it.
In these works by competent hands important contributions will be made (as I have reason to know) to right knowledge of the subject dealt with by Paine in his "Public Good.
Government is the organization of the aggregate of those natural rights which individuals are not competent to secure individually, and therefore surrender to the control of society in exchange for the protection of all rights.
Such was the verdict of the men most competent to pass judgment on the author, the soldier, the secretary.
Are you the only onecompetent to study these facts?
Seeing that the chief means of identification might be in the music, I persuaded my friend Blake, who is a fairly competent musician, to sit with me and decipher the score which 'E.
Still, practical knowledge of imposition is really as necessary now to the fully competent compositor as it ever was, for with it he is enabled to undertake work that otherwise he can not do.
It is something against which every competent proof-reader should fight, tooth and nail, because it is subversive of true principle.
If the foreman is reallycompetent to read proof, he will manage to secure and keep a force of good readers with less trouble than those have who are not so well fitted to judge the work done.
Fifty men may try to fill the place and fail before another really competent man is found.
The Swiss are the most competent people on this globe of ours, which is round like an orange and slightly flattened at the poles.
It is classed by the most competent critics of today along with the greatest works of the old masters.
Such at least is its meaning in the opinion of Mr. Sabunji, a competent Arabic scholar, though I will not venture to explain on what occasion Senacherib made his way to Nejd, nor why he wrote in Arabic instead of his own cuneiform.
I leave this deduction, however, to more competent persons than myself to draw, contenting myself with recording the fact.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "competent" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
