1.   ...the quiet competence with which he discharged his many college duties.

2.   Balding, tending to portly, calm and unruffled, he looks the career middle manager, exuding quiet competence.

3.   But his quiet competence got him both.

4.   Her quiet competence and single-minded focus should have inspired and energized the city.

5.   His quiet competence freed them to concentrate on business.

6.   Hibbs brings quiet competence, deliberation and integrity to the job.

7.   It performed its function of holding a light bulb with quiet competence, but it was a special kind of ugly.

8.   Labrecque was known for his quiet competence and modesty, traits that may have led him to be underappreciated by Wall Street.

9.   Monday, Russian officials did their best to project an image of quiet competence.