Harper is also a skilled hand-to-hand combatant and he possesses keen analytical and detective skills.

His keen analytical mind, quick grasp of intricate problems, resourcefulness, decision and readiness to take prompt action on important questions arising during the temporary absence of the Brigade Commander within the Brigade, have contributed largely to the success of the Brigade, rendered his services invaluable and won for him the high esteem and complete confidence of the Brigade Commander.

While characters such as Joram, Evaine, and Rhys often defer to his patriarchal authority, Camber's other colleagues and allies respond to his intelligence, experience, and keen analytical judgment.

He possesses a keen analytical mind and often seeks to solve a problem by debating various courses of action with his family and colleagues.

Impressed with his abilities as a guitarist, former Superjesus manager Dan Hennessy took a keen interest in the band and when he took over as A & R chief at Warner Bros. Records Australia, Weta were added to their roster and the band moved to Melbourne, Australia in 1998.

The Gaines Twins could not use their powers on Kraven ( as his senses were too keen for their abilities ).

All are extremely hard to catch because of their flying abilities and keen sight.

They have other physical abilities: they have superhuman strength, great speed, and extremely keen senses.

They have keen problem-solving abilities, and are entertaining to watch.

Redknapp's game revolved around being a central midfielder with a high level of ability to create space in tight situations and accurately pass his way out of them, a player who distributed the ball around the pitch with a dazzling range of passing skills, as well as having a keen eye for set pieces and long-range shooting abilities.

Her keen interest in and familiarity with Latin America, along with her linguistic abilities ( she spoke fluent Russian, English, Spanish and German ), soon saw her translating on behalf of the FGY's International Department.

A common explanation for these keen manipulative abilities is the compact and efficient genomic structure consistently found in obligate endosymbionts.

Like nearly all others in Middle-earth, rarely do the Elves display any kind of " active " magic found in later fantasy works, but are nonetheless deemed " magic " by the lesser races, due to their vast number of superhuman abilities ( keen senses such as sharper hearing and sight, even to the point of night vision, enhanced physical strength, resting the mind and travel simultaneously, foresight, some kind of telepathy, power to control nature to some extent, such as summoning floods, and the power to conjure visions of the past ).

This fact was corroborated by Saif in an interview when he said that even though Sarkar had faith in his abilities, Chopra was not too keen on having him.

In truth the power which Alfred wielded over the English peoples at this time seemed to stem largely from the military might of the West Saxons, Alfred ’ s political connections from having the ruler of Mercia as his son-in-law, and Alfred ’ s keen administrative talents.

Himmler's diary, which he kept intermittently from age 10, shows that he took a keen interest in current events, dueling, and " the serious discussion of religion and sex ".

The government was keen to reduce Malaya ’ s dependence on commodity exports, which put the country at the mercy of fluctuating prices.

The Muslim rulers were keen to invade India, which was a rich region, with a flourishing international trade and the only known diamond mines in the world.

Furthermore, Abbas had, for many years, been trying to recover the city of Kandahar, which Jahangir was not keen to part with, especially to this king whom he did not particularly care for, despite seeing him as an equal.

Although keen on becoming a pilot, there was already a surplus of trained aircrew and the Air Force instead put his mechanical skills to use as a flight mechanic, of which there was a wartime shortage.

It is able to locate its prey using its keen sense of smell, which can locate a dead or dying animal from a range of up to.

After the Winter of Discontent and the subsequent fall of the Labour government, many corners of the public and media believed that the trade unions were running the Labour Party-an image which Neil Kinnock was keen to shake off after becoming party leader in 1983.

According to Livy, the Rutuli were, at that time, a very wealthy nation and Tarquinius was keen to obtain the booty which would come with victory over the Rutuli in order, in part, to assuage the anger of his subjects.

Liverpool features in the film The 51st State ( also known as Formula 51 ), in which ex-hitman Felix DeSouza ( Robert Carlyle ) is a keen supporter of the team and the last scene takes place at a match between Liverpool and Manchester United.

Although all Muslims pray to one God, Ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhab was keen on emphasising that no intercession with God was possible without God's permission, which God only grants to whom He wills and only to benefit those whom He wills, certainly not the ones who invoke anything or anyone except Him, as these would never be forgiven.

Bukharin made several notable contributions to Marxist-Leninist thought, most notably The Economics of the Transition Period ( 1920 ) and his prison writings, Philosophical Arabesques, ( which clearly reveal Bukharin had corrected the ' one-sidedness ' of his thought ), as well as being a founding member of the Soviet Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a keen botanist.

The Whig canon and the neo-Harringtonians, John Milton, James Harrington and Sidney, Trenchard, Gordon and Bolingbroke, together with the Greek, Roman, and Renaissance masters of the tradition as far as Montesquieu, formed the authoritative literature of this culture ; and its values and concepts were those with which we have grown familiar: a civic and patriot ideal in which the personality was founded in property, perfected in citizenship but perpetually threatened by corruption ; government figuring paradoxically as the principal source of corruption and operating through such means as patronage, faction, standing armies ( opposed to the ideal of the militia ), established churches ( opposed to the Puritan and deist modes of American religion ) and the promotion of a monied interest — though the formulation of this last concept was somewhat hindered by the keen desire for readily available paper credit common in colonies of settlement.

Such a challenging enterprise requires keen knowledge of sailing in general as well as maintenance, navigation ( especially celestial navigation ), and often even international diplomacy ( for which an entire set of protocols should be learned and practiced ).

Louis X of France was a keen player of jeu de paume, which evolved into real tennis, and became notable as the first person to construct indoor tennis courts in the modern style.

Fruit and vegetables provided him with the richest source of carbohydrates ; he was particularly keen on carrots which would make up one half of the contents of the drink, with the remaining being split between the other fruits and vegetables.

They also have extremely keen eyesight ( up to 3. 6 times human acuity for the martial eagle ) which enables them to spot potential prey from a very long distance.

This keen eyesight is primarily contributed by their extremely large pupils which ensure minimal diffraction ( scattering ) of the incoming light.

After welcoming the athletes to two weeks of " keen but friendly rivalry ", he said London represented a " warm flame of hope for a better understanding in the world which has burned so low.

Sharks have keen olfactory senses, located in the short duct ( which is not fused, unlike bony fish ) between the anterior and posterior nasal openings, with some species able to detect as little as one part per million of blood in seawater.

But in the best position to take advantage of free trade, culturally indisposed to traditional empires ( though not without its own colonial interests ), and alarmed by the rise of communism in China and the detonation of the first Soviet atom bomb, the historically non-interventionist U. S. also took a keen interest in developing multilateral institutions which would maintain a favorable world order among them.

It is known that Hooke had a particularly keen eye, and was an adept mathematician, neither of which applied to Boyle.

They were inseparable, not because they were fond of each other, but because they wanted to keep an eye on each other, as they were keen rivals for social leadership.

Readers were told that the British authority learned about Poirot's keen investigative ability from certain Belgian royals.

Ben Adret, with the approval of other prominent Spanish rabbis, sent a letter to the community at Montpellier proposing to forbid the study of philosophy to those who were less than twenty-five years of age, and, in spite of keen opposition from the liberal section, a decree in this sense was issued by Ben Adret in 1305.

Tallard preferred to bide his time, replenish supplies and allow Marlborough's Danube campaign to flounder in the colder weeks of Autumn ; the Elector and Marsin, however, newly reinforced, were keen to push ahead.

The French had long been keen on large destroyers, with their Chacal class of 1922 displacing over 2, 000 tons and carrying 130 mm guns ; a further three similar classes were produced around 1930.

Claims to the Panjdeh Oasis were in debate, with the Russians keen to take over all the region's Turkoman domains.

The troops that were stationed in India were mainly reserves and Territorials, who were awaiting demobilisation and keen to return to Britain, whilst the few regular regiments that were available were tired and depleted from five years of fighting.

Although he remained in the backwater of Nancy, his prints were widely distributed through Europe ; Rembrandt was a keen collector of them.

The Germans were keen to get some sort of useful ground-based anti-aircraft system into operation.

Even after this experience, once Eckstine's band left town, Davis ' parents were still keen for him to continue formal academic studies.

Founding father of the NMFC. The North Melbourne Football Club arose from lowly origins in 1869, purportedly established to satisfy the needs of local cricketers who were keen to keep themselves fit over the winter months.

[...] often our interviewees were keen to persuade us of a certain interpretation of the past, supporting broad, sweeping comments about historical change with specific stories from their lives.

Nonetheless, as later historians of the 19th century were keen to explain, the Revolution was a high moment of eloquence and rhetorical prowess, although set against a background of rejecting rhetoric.

Both Michelet and Burckhardt were keen to describe the progress made in the Renaissance towards the modern age.