I may be qualified, but there's another student in my class who also applied early, and he has better credentials.

They wanted me to try and persuade you to do the same thing- because you'd have better credentials.

"I was competing against a lot of guys who had much better credentials," he said.

As with most community theater productions, some performers come with better credentials than others.

But the pressures of the economy and the job market mean that workers today need better credentials and more skills to hold decent-paying jobs.

She had better credentials than anyone we knew.

"In fact, one can argue that in bad economic times, people will want to pur-sue better credentials and go back to school."

Of the two, Kelly has the better credentials.

The view that we can achieve better democratic credentials for the Union without creating new institutions or bodies was also broadly accepted.

Morale soared, and more people with better credentials started applying for jobs.