The mayor ducked the question, certainly with more agility than Mr. Zimmer showed in trying to go mano a mano with a man 41 years his junior.
But the usefulness of a small history of shock is to persuade one not to relinquish the concept of shock, but instead to examine it with more agility.
General Hayden said the terms of the law that created Mr. Negroponte's post would allow intelligence agencies to respond more swiftly and with more agility to threats than in the past, when there was a looser structure headed by the director of central intelligence.
The creation of that office was the most significant overhaul of the American intelligence apparatus in half a century, and General Hayden said he believed that it had left the agencies equipped to act with more agility and speed to combat terrorism and other national security threats.
The grand vision is that future robots will be able to fall with more agility than ninjas, springing right back up again to carry on their machinations — instead of landing in a heap of broken metal.
The robot isn't quite the pack animal that BigDog is, since its larger predecessor weighs 240 lbs and can carry 340 lbs, but it looks like it might be able to travel with more agility, if not more speed, and it's more able to operate in environs where there isn't much room to navigate.
However, some other owls, such as barn owls, short-eared owls (Asio flammeus) and even the related snowy owls have lower wing loading relative to their size and so are presumably able to fly faster, with more agility and for more extended periods than the Eurasian eagle-owl.
For instance, butterfly Batesian mimics were shown to pay important aerodynamic costs for flying slower and with more agility, as distasteful mimics do, improving color signaling to predators [ 54].
There is no disagreement that extremist and terrorist ideology is spread over the Internet and by videos with far more agility than either the administration or the military has mustered.
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