Although exceptionally educated and remarkably competent and well-respected, Ubayd Allah was the grandson of a manumitted slave.

Given a turn to hold the baby, Jamie proved remarkably competent, cupping the small fuzzy skull in the palm of one hand like a tennis ball.

Julia was a remarkably competent thirty-three-year-old woman who'd led her own life for many years, and she deserved better man stale, fatherly programming from him... difficult as that sometimes was.

"For all their dislike of it, the Directorate seem to be remarkably competent when it comes to the democratic process," Ghemor said.

Or remarkably competent in subverting it, at any rate.

"Perhaps it is best to leave the matter of governance to the centaur; he seems remarkably competent."

She is a remarkably competent person.

"Still, for his age he's remarkably competent."

This is, among its other attributes, a remarkably competent introduction to both vegetable gardening and cooking.

Yet the Zenobians are remarkably competent warriors, both in their basic physical abilities and in their technological accomplishments.