What's the difference between agency and intelligence?

Agency


Definition:

  • (n.) The faculty of acting or of exerting power; the state of being in action; action; instrumentality.
  • (n.) The office of an agent, or factor; the relation between a principal and his agent; business of one intrusted with the concerns of another.
  • (n.) The place of business of am agent.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The inquiry found the law enforcement agencies routinely fail to record the professions of those whose communications data records they access under Ripa.
  • (2) And this is the supply of 30% of the state’s fresh water.” To conduct the survey, the state’s water agency dispatches researchers to measure the level of snow manually at 250 separate sites in the Sierra Nevada, Rizzardo said.
  • (3) Project grants to selected State and local agencies amounted to about $.8 billion.
  • (4) Richard Hill, deputy chief executive at the Homes & Communities Agency , said: "As social businesses, housing associations already have a good record of re-investing their surpluses to build new homes and improve those of their existing tenants.
  • (5) Comprehensive regulations are being developed to limit human exposure to contamination in drinking water by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the authority of the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA).
  • (6) S&P – the only one of the three major agencies not to have stripped the UK of its coveted AAA status – said it had been surprised at the pick-up in activity during 2013 – a year that began with fears of a triple-dip recession.
  • (7) A Swedish news agency said it had received an email warning before the blasts in which a threat was made against Sweden's population, linked to the country's military presence in Afghanistan and the five-year-old case of caricatures of the prophet Muhammad by Swedish artist Lars Vilks.
  • (8) Their efforts will include blocking the NSA from undermining encryption and barring other law enforcement agencies from collecting US data in bulk.
  • (9) Fatah leader Yahya Rabah said the organisation would celebrate "with our brothers in Hamas", the Ma'an news agency reported.
  • (10) But the Franco-British spat sparked by Dave's rejection of Angela and Nicolas's cunning plan to save the euro has been given wings by news the US credit agencies may soon strip France of its triple-A rating and is coming along very nicely, thank you. "
  • (11) In this article it is outlined the medical biopsychosocial approach with particular emphasis on the family viewed as the primary health care agency.
  • (12) The mothers of 87 male and female adolescents accepted at a counseling agency described their offspring by completing the Institute of Juvenile Research Behavior Checklist.
  • (13) In one of Pruitt’s first official acts, for example, he overruled the recommendation of his own agency’s scientists, based on years of meticulous research, to ban a pesticide shown to cause nerve damage, one that poses a clear risk to children, farmworkers and rural drinking water supplies.
  • (14) John Large, a leading nuclear consultant, said: "The HSE as an independent agency will come under tremendous pressure to push through these designs.
  • (15) I believe that truth sets man free.” It was a curious stance for someone who spent many years undercover as a counter-espionage informant, a government propagandist, and unofficial asset of the Central Intelligence Agency.
  • (16) We are firmly opposed to that," an unidentified spokesman from the ministry of industry and information technology told the state news agency, Xinhua.
  • (17) And all agencies must also now implement the wider recommendations made in the Inspectors' report.
  • (18) It could provoke the gravest risk, that all three rating agencies declare a credit event and then there are big contagion risks for other countries," he said.
  • (19) To settle the case, Apple and the four publishers offered a range of commitments to the commission that will include the termination of current agency agreements, and, for two years, giving ebook retailers the freedom to set their own prices for ebooks.
  • (20) According to the International Energy Agency, 147m Indians will remain without electricity into 2030 under a business as usual scenario emphasising coal.

Intelligence


Definition:

  • (n.) The act or state of knowing; the exercise of the understanding.
  • (n.) The capacity to know or understand; readiness of comprehension; the intellect, as a gift or an endowment.
  • (n.) Information communicated; news; notice; advice.
  • (n.) Acquaintance; intercourse; familiarity.
  • (n.) Knowledge imparted or acquired, whether by study, research, or experience; general information.
  • (n.) An intelligent being or spirit; -- generally applied to pure spirits; as, a created intelligence.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The results indicated that neuropsychological measures may serve to broaden the concept of intelligence and that a brain-related criterion may contribute to a fuller understanding of its nature.
  • (2) The frequency of rare fragile sites was studied among 240 children in special schools for subnormal intelligence (IQ 52-85).
  • (3) A definite relationship between intelligence level and the type of muscle disease was found.
  • (4) The dramas are part of the BBC2 controller Janice Hadlow's plans for her "unashamedly intelligent" channel over the coming months.
  • (5) In Essex, police are putting on extra patrols during and after England's first match and placing domestic violence intelligence teams in police control rooms.
  • (6) MI6 introduced him to the Spanish intelligence service and in 2006 he travelled to Madrid.
  • (7) Intelligence scores are also related to feeding patterns, with those exclusively breastfed for 4-9 months displaying the highest scores in relation to their age.
  • (8) Short-forms of Wechsler intelligence tests have abounded in the literature and have been recommended for use as screening instruments in clinical and research settings.
  • (9) I believe that truth sets man free.” It was a curious stance for someone who spent many years undercover as a counter-espionage informant, a government propagandist, and unofficial asset of the Central Intelligence Agency.
  • (10) Groups were similar with respect to age, sex, school experience, family income, housing, primary language spoken, and nonverbal intelligence.
  • (11) An attempt to eliminate the age effect by adjusting for age differences in monaural shadowing errors, fluid intelligence, and pure-tone hearing loss did not succeed.
  • (12) He believes the intelligence and security committee (ISC) has enough powers to do its job.
  • (13) The eight senators, including the incoming ranking member Mark Warner of Virginia, wrote to Barack Obama to request he declassify relevant intelligence on the election.
  • (14) The 83 survivors of a consecutive series of children with spina bifida cystica, born between 1963 and 1971 and treated non-selectively since birth, were assessed by intelligence and developmental testing.
  • (15) In addition to the threat of industrial espionage to sustain this position, there is an inherent risk of Chinese equipment being used for intelligence purposes.
  • (16) He would do the Telegraph crossword and, to be fair, would make intelligent conversation but he was a bit racist.
  • (17) Gibson's conclusions and the question he says now need to be address will make uncomfortable reading for former heads of the UK's intelligence agencies and for ministers of the last Labour government.
  • (18) Although the greater vulnerability of the verbal intelligence of the younger radiated child and the serial order memory of the child with later tumor onset and hormone disturbances remain to be explained, and although the form of the relationship between radiation and tumor site is not fully understood, the data highlight the need to consider the cognitive consequences of pediatric brain tumors according to a set of markers that include maturational rate, hormone status, radiation history, and principal site of the tumor.
  • (19) And this was always the thing with the British player, they were always deemed never to be intelligent, not to have good decision-making skills but could fight like hell for the ball.
  • (20) He had been moved from a civilian prison to the country's intelligence HQ, leading Mansfield to question whether there was a disagreement among Syrian authorities about the fate of Khan.