Are your top appointees the best-qualified people in America?.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Talk With Clinton] Reference

ANNOUNCER: You needed that job and you were the best-qualified.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 13, 2000] Reference

Overall, I think is Kagan is not best-qualified possible nominee.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » A Great Law School Dean Doesn’t Have to be a Great Scholar] Reference

Therefore, in my lifetime, he's the best-qualified person to serve.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Breaking News: President Clinton Holds News Conference - June 28, 2000] Reference

They're the two best-qualified, finest young men you've ever known.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Larry King Live Weekend: Barbara Bush Reflects on Her Life As First Lady - January 28, 2001] Reference

The goal here is, in theory, to identify the best-qualified candidates.    From Wordnik.com.  ["It seems to me that if I say a whole system must be upset for me to win..."] Reference

It'll be the best-qualified person out of the people who are interviewed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Liz Ryan: Keep Your Resume Out of the Black Hole] Reference

I think they're the best-qualified people that I interviewed, on balance.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Talk With Clinton] Reference

Barack Obama is our President because he was the best-qualified candidate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poll: Obama's Election Improves African-Americans' Views Of America] Reference

Here, public pension funds did not go to the best-qualified money manager.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chooch of the Week] Reference

So what is the most equitable way to select the best-qualified applicants?.    From Wordnik.com.  [What's At Stake] Reference

Powell knows full well who the best-qualified candidate is for foreign policy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Is Colin Powell about to endorse Obama?] Reference

Asa Hutchinson is one of the best-qualified persons to speak to that question.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 15, 2004] Reference

In no sense will the best-qualified person who applied for the job, get the job.    From Wordnik.com.  [Liz Ryan: Keep Your Resume Out of the Black Hole] Reference

He was the best-qualified and had the best portfolio, but was he purposely derailed?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hermene Hartman: The Changing Face of Illinois Politics] Reference

I am the best-qualified man for the job -- when the space docs give their final okay.    From Wordnik.com.  [2010 Odyssey Two]

Bartley said he voted for Rushern Baker because "I thought he was the best-qualified.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Live blog: Maryland Primary Day 2010 morning -- Mikulski ready for general-election fight] Reference

If the photo student goes to a university, go to the best-qualified university per dollar.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-08-01] Reference

She really IS the best-qualified candidate -- she has the experience, brains, motivation, etc.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hillary as Tracy Flick — the video.] Reference

And Mrs. Hillary Clinton is the best-qualified, female candidate in the U.S. history until now.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Hillary Mailer: "American Families Can't Afford Barack Obama"] Reference

That approach has given us the most racially diverse and best-qualified military in our history.    From Wordnik.com.  [President Remarks On Affirmative Action] Reference

His nomination and defense of Harriet Myers as the best-qualified candidate for the Supreme Court.    From Wordnik.com.  [Frank Dwyer: Trust Me] Reference

I hate to tell you this, but nobody is required to hire the best-qualified applicant for anything.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » A Chance to Work for One of the Top Libertarian Public-Interest Law Firms in the Country] Reference

Because the best-qualified candidate in the Mayoral race is Mark Mallory, who is an African American.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2005-06-01] Reference

Consequently, even the best-qualified, hardest-working new PJ could be out of business within two months.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-04-01] Reference

Even the U. K's best-qualified graduates are struggling to find work as the employment situation deteriorates.    From Wordnik.com.  [Joblessness Worsens in the U.K.] Reference

The services should have the flexibility to assign the best-qualified person to the job, regardless of gender.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Women Have What It Takes'] Reference

The Journal asked companies to rank schools that produce the best-qualified graduates — overall and by major.    From Wordnik.com.  [Penn State Tops Recruiter Rankings] Reference

You might have a laugh as the best-qualified candidate fails to plié to order; but they still get the real job.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-02-17] Reference

What are you doing to ensure that the best-qualified people are in a position to move forward in your organization?.    From Wordnik.com.  [© Brand X Pictures Market...] Reference

The Clintons truly do believe she is best-qualified, and for that reason, as well, she has not conceded to Barack Obama.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mayhill Fowler: Stump Dreams: The Clinton Family White House] Reference

"We're conducting an external search to allow us to select the best-qualified new members," said spokeswoman Anne Roman.    From Wordnik.com.  [Borders Plans To Install New Board] Reference

SN: What sort of people would you say are best-qualified to self-publish or start their own publishing house successfully?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » 15 Questions with Bob Heske] Reference

It was simply the best-qualified firm for the job and its familiarity with the project would prove valuable to the taxpayers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Interstate 69] Reference

Marc Mezvinsky won Chelsea Clinton's heart, and may also be the best-qualified fellow to survive such a pressure-cooker occasion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marc Mezvinsky: Everything you wanted to know about the groom (except his wedding details)] Reference

"She's exactly who I need," McCain said -- but the notion that Palin, like Thomas, is the best-qualified for the job is ludicrous.    From Wordnik.com.  [Taylor Marsh: We Have Not Come A Long Way, Babe] Reference

As a result, WIPO delegates from 182 nations will discuss these issues without hearing from many of the world's best-qualified experts.    From Wordnik.com.  [B2fxxx] Reference

She is simply the best-qualified candidate for the Superior Court.    From Wordnik.com.  [post-gazette.com - News] Reference

If a person needs a job in these disastrous times, why not give it to the best-qualified person?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Las Vegas Sun Stories: All Sun Headlines] Reference

Also, we residents deserve to have the best-qualified candidates from the field to represent us.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vail Daily - Top Stories] Reference