A Supreme Court clerkship is the ultimate legal status symbol, reserved for students of stunning intellectual horsepower.

'Many did, however, recognise our skills and expertise - our intellectual 'horsepower'- and many wanted to know more,' he added.

He had everything -physical energy, intellectual horsepower, old boy credentials, access to the President.

But brilliant in sheer wit, in sheer intellectual mental horsepower.

"She has exceptional skills in these areas as well as very high intellectual horsepower," Mr. Hayward said.

A series of coming books says that once you get past intellectual horsepower and experience - no small things - the difference is attitude.

No human could match their intellectual horsepower, and throughout history the greater minds had tended to enslave those lesser endowed.

In short, our task is to create the mechanisms to transmit Russia's scientific and intellectual horsepower into globally competitive knowledge-based products and services.

Bill Perry is a man with deep experience, strong convictions, intellectual horsepower.

"He's got the intellectual horsepower to ask the right questions."