(n.) The quality of being agile; the power of moving the limbs quickly and easily; nimbleness; activity; quickness of motion; as, strength and agility of body.
(n.) Activity; powerful agency.
Example Sentences:
(1) As Cavani was shunted of the ball, it broke to Suarez, who aimed a quick-witted toe-poke at the bottom corner from 15 yards, only to be denied by Buffon, who showed tremendous agility to plunge to his right and tip it around the post!
(2) The destruction of climate science expertise in Australia’s premier research organisation is not clever, innovative, or agile.
(3) "She's very agile as a performer, and is able to deliver again and again so it's a very joyful watch."
(4) Joe Roberson, a digital consultant who co-managed Innovation Labs believes the charity sector is still a far way behind other sectors when it comes to developing apps and this is due to a lack of understanding of how business and lean or agile design thinking can help them move forward digitally.
(5) Therefore it is reasonable to consider the described model as a simple, agile and economic instrument adaptable to other cases, although still to be perfected.
(6) Paul Golby, chief executive of E.ON in Britain, said: "We had to undertake a deep and rigorous review of how much money we spend in order to ensure we keep costs as low as possible for our customers, become a more agile organisation and build a sustainable business in the UK.
(7) A spokesman for the producers said viewers of the semi-final had seen that winner Jules O’Dwyer’s act involved several dogs who participated alongside Matisse to help perform her “unique mixture of dog agility and storytelling”.
(8) Now, I think that Corbyn’s parliamentary and political past is integral both to his appeal and his problems and, as a phenomenon, he’s quite different to Podemos , who are agile and flexible.
(9) By streamlining its governance, the Premier League was more agile than its predecessors.
(10) New site-specific endonucleases LplI and AagI have been isolated from the Lactobacillus plantarum and Achromobacter agile cells, respectively.
(11) It is a compelling argument, which – as the referendum that will make or break him looms – Mr Cameron should be agile enough to make.
(12) Act more like a lobby group – an insider rather than outsider – recruit people of influence inside the chamber to support your bill, have a fantastic website and a responsive, well-managed Facebook page, invest in research and polling, make story-telling central to your message, be bipartisan, make friends with corporate Australia, and have a movement that is agile but built for endurance.
(13) The Home Office regards “operational agility” and problems of setting a precedent for judicial involvement in executive decisions as main considerations in the new regime.
(14) "Malcolm was a fantastic raconteur, with a brilliant and agile creative mind.
(15) The group of public-minded cybersecurity volunteers proposed a “hippocratic oath” for connected medical devices last week, suggesting that manufacturers of the devices (which pose tempting targets and can cause huge personal suffering if hacked) abide by a set of principles including supporting “prompt, agile and secure updates” and working with third-party researchers to ensure potential security issues can be safely reported.
(16) But although some surgeons stop operating as they get older, aware that they are not physically as agile or alert as they once were, nobody knew how long their period of excellence lasted.
(17) The developer promised “more varied gameplay” and a greater degree of experimentation on this sequel (the opportunity to take safer, longer routes for example, in favour of the quicker, more perilous options) but the same projectile-like sense of agility and rapidity that defined the original seems to have been retained.
(18) The remaining four Baltic Sea species, "A. agile," "A. kieliense," "A. luteum," and "A. sanguineum," could not be placed in the new subdivision of Agrobacterium.
(19) The world is full of savvy, agile competitors who know quality makes a difference."
(20) Labor sources say Turnbull’s talk about “agility” and “innovation” goes down like a lead balloon in these electorates.
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.