Sentence examples for intelligence to act from inspiring English sources

Aristotle was clear: happiness results from deploying our human intelligence to act creatively on nature.

There have been various reports of gay Palestinians being targeted or pressurised by Israeli intelligence to act as informers.

The problem American commanders in the field face is not too few troops, but too little intelligence to act upon.

"Putting more soldiers on the ground is not going to solve the problem when I don't have the intelligence to act on it," General Sanchez said.

What remains constant, however, is their old-fashioned faith in the capacity of language, used with humility and intelligence, to act as a window upon reality.

He soon came across Nelson, a fanatical and sectarian Protestant from Belfast's Shankill Road, who was recruited in 1985 by British military intelligence to act as an army agent in the UDA, which he had joined a decade earlier.

Mike McConnell, the director of national intelligence, stresses the need for intelligence agencies to act quickly to intercept potential terrorist communications ahead of any court proceeding that might slow those interceptions.

Mr Abdulmutallab failed because he was poorly trained and his fellow passengers were vigilant, despite the utter failure of America's intelligence agencies to act on information readily available to them.

Pakistan's leaders — whether Musharraf or the army chief, Gen. Ashfaq Pervez Kayani, or the country's leading civilian politicians — are finding it more and more difficult to mobilize their own army and intelligence services to act against the Taliban and other militants inside the country.

When Wiley left Iraq, in 2008, he launched a private consultancy, called Tsamota, which assists Western governments and U.N. agencies in preventing war crimes in troubled countries by training police, as well as members of the military, security, and intelligence services, to act in accordance with international law.

I found this outrageous, especially in light of France's mass surveillance laws and our national "state of emergency" that permits the police and intelligence services to act [outside of their jurisdictions].