Sentence examples for intellectually able from inspiring English sources

An obvious cause of this discrepancy is that very intellectually able people are less likely to be diagnosed.

ON Tuesday, the Supreme Court told Florida it must reconsider whether Freddie Lee Hall, a man with an IQ in the 70s who killed a pregnant newlywed in 1978, is intellectually able enough to be executed.

It is not a field for someone with any obvious deficits in self-confidence, and Rattner, a cofounder of the Quadrangle Group, was long considered one of the most intellectually able men on Wall Street.

In a recent lecture, the Oxford neurobiologist argued that a mutation in the brain of a single human being 200,000 years ago turned intellectually able apemen into a super-intelligent species that would conquer the world.

The death-squad despotism of Bashar al-Assad - a statesman discernibly less intellectually able than George Bush - is engaged in a murder campaign against non-compliant politicians in Lebanon.

Meanwhile, Ms. Rees-Mogg's brother, Jacob, a banker who is also running for Parliament and who appears to believe he belongs to the "Brideshead Revisited" era, having once taken his childhood nanny with him on the campaign trail, went on television to denounce Mr. Cameron's plan to get more women and minorities elected as the triumph of "potted plants" over "intellectually able people".

Today's knowledge workers demand what leadership experts call a "post-heroic leader": one who is emotionally and intellectually agile, able to modulate their style as needed from authoritative to collaborative and back again in order to optimize team performance.

Being nimble intellectually and able to learn new things is more important to success in the labor market now than ever before.

His professor, Hal Hill, described Mr. Basrie as "very able intellectually, and a very broad networker" with contacts in the business, cultural and intellectual communities.

Daniel Lopez, his attorney, said Pearson is physically and intellectually fine and able to retain short-term memories but cannot help prepare his defense because he cannot remember any of the time period in which his alleged misconduct occurred.

Mr. Goodman's assessment of the Goodman professor: "A very able, intellectually powerful man who will provide an inspirational message to those coming along trying to find direction in their lives".