"It's a great sadness really that Rhodri Glyn has fallen foul in this way - he was a competent minister, " he added.

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He was a competent manager.

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Mr Barnard said he was a "highly competent and experienced journalist" and that this had been substantiated by the many tributes the family received from his colleagues.

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But he proved a competent administrator when he was made transport minister in the late 1980s, and he served as minister of tourism and deputy prime minister in Benjamin Netanyahu's first government, elected in 1996.

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He was heavily sedated and on a ventilator at Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital, but was "alert, mentally competent and lucid" during the brief initial court appearance at his bedside on Monday, U.S. Magistrate Judge Marianne Bowler found.

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He was bequeathed a messy party-funding scandal and a Tory opposition under new and (finally) competent management: David Cameron has stolen many of New Labour's ideas (see article).

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That has allowed Mr Landry, who was finance minister from 1996 until he took over as premier in 2001, to present himself as a cautious and competent administrator.

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