"The president wants to surge thousands of Syrian refugees into the United States, in spite of consistent intelligence community and federal law enforcement warnings that we do not have the intelligence needed to vet individuals from the conflict zone," McCaul said in a statement.
The most difficult films to criticize are the ambitious movies that fail in parts, that are neither bad nor good, neither smash hits or dismal flops, in spite of the intelligence and talents of the people involved.
Hughes and Plath, a Fulbright scholar, were the proverbial opposites that attract: in spite of her intelligence, Plath was ferociously conventional, desperate to achieve success on the world's terms as well as her own.
Vassar represented academic success and an escape from her difficult upbringing, but in spite of her ferocious intelligence, McCarthy never felt she was fully accepted into the socially elite milieu in which she found herself.
Some say that Dachshunds suffer from small dog syndrome but others say that the Dachshund, in spite of it's intelligence, either does not know, or care that it is such a small dog.
Corwin sets out to show how some students manage to maintain their grades and hone their academic intelligence in spite of adult-size pressures.
South Africa spends a disproportionate amount of time focused on Iran and jihadi groups, in spite of internal documents showing its intelligence service does not regard either as a major threat to South Africa.
During the war against Afghanistan, he allowed United States military planes to fly over Russian territory, accepted American bases in Central Asia, and shared intelligence in spite of strong opposition from the former Soviet security establishment.
The report notes that he told the UN security council in the run-up to the invasion that Iraq had promised to provide full cooperation in checks that it had no weapons of mass destruction, in spite of scepticism expressed by British intelligence.
I've been educated in it, and in spite of all his diligence and intelligence, this is a key he's never been given.
