"I believe his leadership qualities, intelligence, preparation and character will contribute to his success as a coach," Toronto's president and general manager, Kevin Payne, said of his new hire during a news conference Tuesday.
I am a sports journalist by trade, which means that much of my work revolves around one-on-one interviews in which I'm trying to earn a subject's trust with my intelligence, preparation and, not least, appearance.
This is a modern production but done with respect, intelligence, study, preparation, heart, love, soul.
The much-ballyhooed nebulous characteristics that have come to define Brees – leadership, poise under pressure – are merely symptoms of his intelligence and preparation.
The jets, based in Cyprus, were out over Iraq on Wednesday night gathering intelligence in preparation for attacks co-ordinated with the US-led coalition, as well as Iraqi and Kurdish armed forces.
In February 2003, Mr. Powell spent several days at C.I.A. headquarters reviewing intelligence in preparation for his Feb. 5 speech to the United Nations Security Council, in which he laid out the administration's case for a possible war against Iraq.
"Tom's strengths are his intelligence, his preparation, his ability to see and make decisions on the field, and his ability to deal with whatever the situation is -- whether it's crowd noise, whether it be the end of a game and we have to score, whether the other team has 10 guys at the line of scrimmage and they're blitzing," Belichick said.
That is to gather valuable street-level intelligence in preparation for the landing of an expanded force.
First, he explained that the small force may have been sent in to "recce" the situation; that is to gather valuable street-level intelligence in preparation for the landing of an expanded force.
The strike, followed US intelligence on preparations for a large-scale militant attack, according to the Pentagon.
The United States provided Iraq with intelligence on preparations for an Iranian offensive during the Iran-Iraq war even though it knew Baghdad would respond with chemical weapons, Foreign Policy magazine reported Monday.
