During the Industrial Revolution, Scotland became one of the commercial, intellectual and industrial powerhouses of the British Empire.

Sometimes spirited debate followed with remarks such as these: "Her teachers say she's an intellectual powerhouse."

In an almost surreptitious, though legal, manner, Caracas itself had become an intellectual powerhouse.

Such a merger would further Boston College's quest to become the nation's Catholic intellectual powerhouse.

"Poor innocent blameless Joey, stolen away by that little intellectual powerhouse next door."

Quite simply, because it's South Africa's economic, political and intellectual powerhouse - and it feels much more like Africa than Cape Town.

He was talking about the conservative movement's success in marketing its policy ideas and presenting itself as an intellectual powerhouse.

Not to mention the intellectual powerhouse of Manchester.

A sixth is "not a rocket scientist" while a seventh is "not what I'd call an intellectual powerhouse."

Dying of tuberculosis at the age of 25, Bashkirtseff lived just long enough to become an intellectual powerhouse in Paris in the 1880s.