Humility goes a long way and if you combine it with competence, it goes even further.
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Another is Sunderland fans need to hope that Short has not made the fatal but often repeated mistake of confusing passion with competence.
If you are very good at giving away money, that is fine, but when you couple financial resources with competence and network, you get a lot more bang for the buck.
The IDF performed with greater competence in Gaza than in Lebanon.
The Church said Mr Draper was involved "at an early stage in the development of policies and procedures but was replaced when others with greater competence were engaged".
Particularly noteworthy in light of the present controversy surrounding the quality, reliability and need for reform of U.S. intelligence is the fact that Constantine was one of a relatively few individuals who served with great competence in both senior ranks of the intelligence community and as a top policy-maker.
While our forces on the front lines continue to do their difficult missions with courage and competence, morale is sagging at home.
The real issue for Chief Executive Carol Bartz, however, is whether her competence with numbers and cost controls can be complemented with articulating her strategy for the company--and succeeding with it.
Going forward, the only way Romney defeat the Gingrich-led insurgent challenge stripped him of his claim to inevitability once and for all is if he can stay on the offense, descend from his Ivory Tower and generate a sense of authenticity and competence with the electorate that he has been unable to achieve to date.
Uncle Sam has a long history of giving farm loans to people with no apparent farming competence.
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The trouble for critics is that questions about Ms Dati's competence collide with France's awkward new political correctness.
Mr Obama's campaign theme of change began with the restoration of competence, not to mention cleanliness, to the halls of government.
In practice, the government almost always hires blacks, preferably those who were active in the struggle against apartheid, with scant regard to competence.
Lohan entered Monday's hearing with a lawyer whose competence has been questioned by a judge, and another set of attorneys waiting in the wings to take over.
Lohan enters Monday's hearing with a lawyer whose competence has been questioned by a judge, and another set of attorneys waiting in the wings to take over.
It is the numbers, stupid - falling GDP and rising borrowing - combined with a loss of ministerial competence - all those U-turns - which have spooked the electorate.
Even Singapore with a population of about 4 million has the competence to take care of any one of 25 states of USA with similar or lesser sized population.
During a meeting with Ministers working in the fields of competence of UNESCO, the Minister of Secondary Education and Chairman of the National Commission welcomed the efforts made by the Director-General to advance the global priorities of the Organization - Africa and gender equality.
"Over the next two years, Democrats will lead with unified agenda that restores hope and opportunity, competence and responsibility, " Dean said.
The Law Society of Scotland has noted that while the imposition of a minimum price of alcohol is a devolved matter within the legislative competence of the Scottish Parliament, compatibility with EU Duty Directives must be taken into account.
In a separate report in February, published in Child Trends, data show that regardless of economic status, ethnicity or education, the single mothers who were regularly offered emotional support had "children and adolescents who were also more likely to display social competence and school engagement, " compared with single mothers without social support.
The emphasis ought to be on widening the circle of competence, as Google is trying to do with its foray into handheld devices.
Before that, any plans to devolve extra powers to Wales had to be agreed with parliament, under the process known as a legislative competence order.
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For her part, Mrs Obama gave an unusually partisan speech for a First Lady, taking swipes at the privileged background and competence of Mr Romney, which she contrasted with the humble upbringings of her and her husband.
Mandarin competence takes 2, 200 class hours, with half of that time spent in a country where it's spoken, according to the U.S. State Department's Foreign Service Institute, whereas Spanish can be learned in 600 to 750 class hours.
Mr Cowen added that the two governments were "determined to press ahead with all aspects of the Agreement that are within their respective competence".
Both in the shape of Evangelos Venizelos (the party enforcer) and Elena Panaritis (the non-elected, Western-educated MP advising Papandreou) and Mr Papandreou himself they have people with a lot to lose reputationally, and of some considerable competence.
But with Petraeus, the issue is less about political hypocrisy than professional competence.
Women with the same impact and productivity as men were consistently given much lower competence scores.
One aim is to inject competence into ministries that lack it especially those dealing with social policy, where a centre-left government should be at its strongest.
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