Sentence examples for stunning intelligence from inspiring English sources

He has also spoken of "a stunning intelligence failure".

"A Convenient Spy," by Dan Stober and Ian Hoffman, presents an almanac of contemporary anxieties -- a stunning intelligence fiasco, racial profiling, civil liberties competing against national security, media influence, even a hint of resurgent McCarthyism in the scientific community -- all centering on an inconspicuous figure who would not stand out in a crowd of five people.

The attacks represented "a stunning failure of intelligence," Mr. Brokaw said, though most of the experts only speculated about whom to retaliate against, as "war" became one of the day's most common terms.

Whether it is a rhapsody on a French window that he rescues on a whim from a demolished building, or a mental quest through the crowded streets of North Calcutta for the monuments of the much-hyped Bengal Renaissance, Chaudhuri's trysts with the past are entrancing in their lyricism, and simply stunning in their intelligence and percipience.

So while Yahoo's announcement on Thursday that state-sponsored hackers — the company did not say what country it believes they are working for — had made off with more than 500 million customers' personal records was stunning to many, intelligence officials say it can be seen as just the latest step in an escalating nation-state digital warfare campaign.

To be sure, his intelligence career contained stunning mishaps as well as brilliant successes.

Dr Simon Underdown, senior lecturer in biological anthropology at Oxford Brookes University, said human intelligence was a "stunning product of our evolution".

In 2011, American intelligence, in a stunning display of arrogance, stupidity, or both, faked a vaccination drive as a cover for its attempt to pin down the location of Osama bin Laden.

In September 1987 a Chadian force, aided by French and US intelligence, launched a stunning night attack on Libya's southern airbase, killing 1,700 troops and taking 300 prisoners, among them their commander, Heftar.

Connect them to each other and the Google databases, for "conversations" take multiple trajectories, and you start to imagine a class of robots that combine human and machine intelligence in fairly stunning new ways.

An enduring aim of research in the psychological and brain sciences is to understand the nature of individual differences in human intelligence, examining the stunning breadth and diversity of intellectual abilities and the remarkable neurobiological mechanisms from which they arise.