Yet they have the ability, potential, talent and prowess to go for big scores. |
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Imagine a warrior society in which only martial prowess and accomplishment confer status and reward. |
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She has not been engaged in a business activity to exploit her sporting prowess or to turn her talent to account in money. |
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She was not prepared to give even the benefit of the doubt over the question of the mob's fighting prowess. |
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He is jealous of their prowess, and those qualities together in this time could be the biggest asset that we have in leadership. |
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The performers displayed their physical prowess in the most acrobatic style. |
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Cops hid two bags of whizz to demonstrate their sniffer dog's prowess, but only one was retrieved. |
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They savoured the preparations along with their friends, and watched the willow wielders and the bowlers display their prowess. |
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His puck-handling prowess can cause him to get overconfident or rattled by elements such as a kink in the boards of a road arena. |
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The axe almost weighs as much as him, but seven-year-old Weston does not let that stop him prove his woodchop prowess. |
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Thanks in part to fat fees from those captive funds and betting its own capital and trading prowess, the bank did very nicely thank you. |
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Ntontela who is known for his fierce fighting prowess chose to box instead of doing what he knows best. |
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By donating large amounts of money, wealthy individuals are able to signal their economic prowess. |
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Retailers of the legend seem stupefied by Tamerlane, never knowing whether to praise him for his military prowess or shudder at his ferocity. |
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When battleships showed their prowess, submarines and torpedo boats were devised. |
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You are applauded for your professional prowess and dexterity in a business venture. |
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Naturally, the way to Penelope's heart is to show off a prowess in shooting, roping and riding. |
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They have never from choice borne arms nor sought distinction in military prowess. |
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We prefer to use our own locomotive prowess to enjoy the countryside in all its peace and quiet and natural beauty. |
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If athletic prowess runs in the Stewart family, however, so does dedication. |
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Up to this juncture Pat was a heavy smoker, lived life to the full and certainly showed no athletic prowess. |
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Her athletic prowess was demonstrated in the numerous track and field trophies she won. |
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Animal figures are talismans that endow the wearer with the animal's power and prowess. |
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Card-guessing tricks give a magician the opportunity to show off his or her mind-reading prowess. |
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Mr Kravchuk, who prides himself on his chess-playing prowess, did not give up his man easily. |
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Too often, the country seems to be engrossed in a mythic, heroic narrative of patriotic, martial prowess. |
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Male viewers would have seen him as an exemplar of heroic and martial prowess. |
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As you can probably expect, this isn't a title you'll be using to show off your home theater's video and audio prowess. |
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Now, physical prowess is admittedly not a material qualification for public office. |
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The tracks were broached as compositions first, and secondarily vehicles for exhibiting the prowess of its players. |
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Holland also has developed a means of measuring each sales rep's forecasting prowess. |
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Based on a real story from 1937, the drama is about an ambitious teacher who seeks to awaken his spiritual prowess through visiting a tohunga. |
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Greek gods like Priapus are known for nothing else but their sexual and procreative prowess. |
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Confident in their military prowess, they preferred to try the arbitrament of war. |
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More than his divine powers, his glorious heritage or his incredible prowess was his unblemished, untarnished, irreproachable character. |
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The horse with a huge reputation, puts his prowess on the line at Newmarket tomorrow as he bids to confirm his place in next month's race. |
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They may be strong on physical prowess, but a little short on the professional side. |
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Do we experience the birth of the legend of Lancelot's unmatched fighting prowess and unbendable chivalry? |
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There is a curious, arguably perverse, symbiosis in football between physical prowess and serious injury which remains unexamined. |
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Jocks respect physical prowess and look down on unfit people for being weak and lazy. |
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His cricketing prowess had not gone unnoticed when he was selected to tour India. |
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His jovial keyboard soloing hardly makes up for the lack of any true musical prowess. |
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The American scientist was to be prized not just for intellectual prowess, but technical facility. |
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The speechmaking prowess that led him into public life three decades ago remains the most daunting weapon in his personal arsenal. |
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It has more jumping prowess than fleas, out hops the springiest grasshoppers, and clears the high bar more quickly than bush crickets. |
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It was an excellent chance for him to show off his technical guitar playing prowess, and I hung on every note. |
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Mrs. Tuitt's prowess and achievement at the sport of netball is another huge claim to fame which elevates her above the ordinary. |
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The editors correctly mention the fear and respect that Nahuas had for Otomi prowess in war but fail to mention their equally strong disdain. |
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In the age in which product placement counts as much as sporting prowess, their decision has angered higher-ups. |
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Appa the comrade was one such character, which really put to test his histrionic prowess. |
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The attractive girls get up in each other's grilles and talk smack about their cheerleading prowess. |
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Much credit must be given to Iago's diabolical prowess which enables him to bend and twist the supple minds of his friends and spouse. |
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The frontier lands became an area where chivalrous knights could show their prowess and their achievements be recorded in ballads. |
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For some reason the Border towns showed particular prowess in making sweeties. |
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Word of her culinary prowess spread in media circles, and invitations came in to contribute to cookbooks and women's magazines. |
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How he maintains his athletic prowess is a subject of fascination among his fans and consternation among his opponents. |
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In a heroic society, the communal aspect of the feasting was an appropriate means of rewarding the prowess of the individual warriors. |
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Aside from their technical prowess, the performance was made compulsive viewing by the showmanship of the boys. |
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He finds just enough courage to annoy Billy Jack and get his throat crushed in an awesome display of Billy Jack's prowess in the martial arts. |
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The success of this cosmopolitan mollusk has much to do with its prowess as a swash rider. |
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Two nations, not known for their footballing prowess, prepare to host the world's biggest sporting event. |
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At their head was Winston Churchill, a lifelong Francophile with a deep admiration for French military prowess. |
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Over time, its descendants became ever more adept at swimming and paid for their aquatic prowess with increasing cumbrousness on land. |
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He has now stopped his medical practice and is making use of his literary prowess to pen down useful material that is of some value to society. |
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Family connection and military prowess ensured his appointment as marshal, but his Gascon temperament did not make him a comfortable relative. |
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I've had a girl crush on Penelope for years, based more on her style than acting prowess, so already I'm sold. |
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As hunting success became an index of personal or professional worth, intense competition developed over the testimonials of prowess. |
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He added that irrespective of technical prowess, security consulting required more than just technical skills. |
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Let's hope that the remaining garden shows go all out to beat their predecessors in culinary skill if not theatrical prowess. |
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When he returned, despite his academic prowess, his social ability was about 10 years behind. |
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It is the academic prowess or skill that speaks, not the physical appearance of the beneficiary. |
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He is agile in the field and also possesses accurate throwing prowess from the deep. |
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This album exposes him as an unremarkable singer, largely devoid of charisma or vocal prowess. |
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Yet for all her athletic prowess, Serena Williams is not content to remain just a tennis star. |
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The children at the end of the camp took part in a competition to show their prowess and several of them won prizes. |
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He impressed judges with his business prowess and the commitment he has shown in fostering more than 60 children. |
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Many music lovers seem to think that unlike her acting prowess, her singing talents needs to be honed. |
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Fathers looked proudly upon children who showed prowess in these extracurricular activities. |
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Ontario has crews that are second to none in terms of their skills and technological prowess. |
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For years now my culinary prowess has extended no further than sticking a chicken in the oven. |
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These factors, he claimed, were an indicator of the industrial prowess of a nation. |
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And his fame has nothing whatsoever to do with his prowess on the football field or in the political arena. |
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Though Ilantar had little love for the Isaad and their sinister lord, he respected their prowess in battle. |
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He was a prodigious builder whose appetite for building was matched by his prowess in war. |
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Marion knew he felt inferior in every way, from prowess in battle to success with women. |
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Pompeii split up much of the land giving large chunks to his soldiers as a reward for their prowess in battle. |
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Over the last 16 years I have time and again witnessed the undoubted courage and fighting prowess of the Afghans. |
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Zaren on the other hand was not a demigod, and Tsuko had not foreseen his great battle prowess. |
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Much that was read and sung celebrated prowess in war and the glorious deeds of ancestors. |
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In his success, desk jockeys everywhere are allowed to think that they still have a chance at athletic prowess. |
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Greaves, a goal-scorer of legendary prowess, is one of the greatest footballers ever to grace the English game. |
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Cricketers around the country know all about his prowess, although Ricky Ponting could be excused for having hardly heard of him. |
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As it stands, I recognize its technical prowess and professional execution, but this is something aimed squarely at the choir. |
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The A.L. marks for teenage prowess in those categories belong to the unfortunate Tony Conigliaro, whose career was cut short by the effects of a beanball incident. |
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Though many Leeds fans complained about his laziness and sulkiness in equal measures, there can be no doubting his goalscoring prowess given the right service. |
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What he lacked in money and sporting prowess, he made up in shrewdness. |
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The general who commanded coalition troops in the first Gulf War was known for his straight talk as well as his battle prowess. |
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Unfortunately it was merely the not inconsiderable technical prowess of his dancers that Page showed off in his emotionally inexpressive choreography. |
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He also was a vigorous member of many school organizations, and this youthful clubbability probably helped make up for his lack of scholastic prowess. |
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The horse Johnny uses to deliver the Boston Observer, Goblin is fast and of great physical prowess, but is difficult to ride because it scares easily. |
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However he was very popular with the lords and chieftains of his day as he stayed in their castles and manors and wrote of their prowess and lineage. |
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It's another example of how Ives associated dissonance and technical demands with masculinity, overcoming challenges, and prowess on the baseball field. |
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When Winston Foster first hit the scene in the '80s, he seemed adamant on overshadowing his albino features with rude boasts about his sexual prowess. |
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Soon she has landed a job as assistant bursar, displaying a winning way with investments, and manages to get Jake enrolled in the college by exaggerating his rowing prowess. |
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And, in a gratuitous show of homicidal prowess, Moses kills two assassins he meets while wandering in the desert of Sinai. |
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From the day he entered the league, Rodriguez was distinguished by his otherworldly power and prowess. |
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It was possible for young men of relatively low status to make a mark through their prowess, but in general the participants were already of noble or at least knightly birth. |
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Fey, whose name and image hardly suggest box-office prowess, is bigger than Zeus. |
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The actor and stuntmen obviously have the skills to pay the bills and don't have to rely on clever cuts and camera work to falsely bolster their ass-kicking prowess. |
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They sought a white-collar and clerical staff capable of using the latest office machinery, with modern office skills, polished grammar, and some mathematical prowess. |
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The band attained renown for the players' high level of technical prowess. |
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He finds himself drawn on a journey involving phrenology, the dodgy science of determining mental prowess from bumps on the head, involving a machine called a psychograph. |
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Militia units, particularly elite volunteer regiments, used the occasion to march in parades and display their military prowess and social standing. |
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An antediluvian civilization, thriving and technologically advanced prior to the flood, managed to survive the flood due to their technological prowess. |
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As the navigator's equivalent of adventurer with a pelorus, she has endeared herself to the ship's company with her prowess on the bridge and her stamina ashore. |
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Lawrence unveiled his left-handed prowess in a national PBA event in February 2000, about a month before he was able to resume bowling right-handed. |
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He had caddied in the tournament the previous year and conned the sponsors so well about his golf prowess that they gave him an exemption to play. |
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On the surface, they seem like one of those typical, progressive rock supergroup offshoots where each band member gets to show off their instrumental prowess. |
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But he also showed an inordinate interest in shooting and his prowess, going to the range at night when he could not sleep. |
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I counter with my stories of the hunting prowess of spiders and ants. |
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They did headstands, armstands, they became trees, the trunks and limbs of trees, then bodies crawling over each other like larvae, then upright with the prowess of panthers. |
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Just in time for the Anzac weekend, the General will be displaying his turntable prowess and lyrical powers as he spins the latest dancehall hits from Jamaica. |
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The funnyman had TV viewers in stitches with his no-nonsense approach to football during World Cup ad breaks and now he is proving his sporting prowess in the new event. |
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Padraic will also be remembered for his prowess on the football field. |
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And rumour of the long-necked Lothario's prowess spread fast. |
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French names like Chanel, Dior and Givenchy have long been synonymous with high fashion, just as American companies have been known for their management prowess. |
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Dumby's spectacular football prowess has been spotted by a city talent scout, which sets up the need for him to win Best Player in the final against a much stronger team. |
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She never wowed the nation with her athletic prowess, shilled in countless car commercials, or entertained in film comedies. |
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At no time did the games disintegrate into one-man shows of polo prowess. |
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The cold was no match for these paragons of athletic prowess and goodwill. |
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Paris attempts to downplay his own fighting prowess and Hector chastises him lightly, criticizing him only for avoiding battle, not for lack of ability. |
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His prowess as a skilful debater in Parliament is also well known. |
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Mr. Muruev displayed some prowess in his batterie and big leaps. |
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We have seen on TV displays of miraculous masculine prowess. |
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Rinehart may have inherited wealth, but even her critics acknowledge her business prowess. |
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Legendary Italian seducer Casanova is rumored to have eaten more than fifty oysters a day to boost his sexual prowess. |
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Is this a peace offering or a challenge of athletic prowess? |
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His obfuscatory prowess, despite attaining a disconcerting status, receives little scrutiny or condemnation from media. |
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Status among the early Germanic tribes was often gauged by the size of a man's cattle herd or by one's martial prowess. |
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It was led by Richard de Clare, called Strongbow due to his prowess as an archer. |
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Any military prowess was therefore not to be revealed further until the last years of Edward's reign. |
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Macbeth, the King's kinsman, is praised for his bravery and fighting prowess. |
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As a result of the conflict Highland regiments who fought for the British secured a reputation for tenacity and combat prowess. |
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As he said, membership of the aristocracy was a more important factor than any cricketing prowess. |
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There never was so desperate a struggle, or one in which the stoutness of knightly prowess shone forth so brightly. |
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Due to its hunting prowess, the golden eagle is regarded with great mystic reverence in some ancient, tribal cultures. |
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Accustomed by degrees to be overmatched and worsted in many engagements, they do not now even compare themselves to the Germans in prowess. |
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While Song China built its naval strength, the Japanese also had considerable naval prowess. |
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This allows combatants to assess each other's antlers, body size and fighting prowess. |
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Vespasian was known for his wit and his amiable manner alongside his commanding personality and military prowess. |
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They showed their prowess during this siege by jumping from the wall and directly into the enemy despite being completely outnumbered. |
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The Chronicle glorifies the military prowess and shrewdness of Oleg, an account imbued with legendary detail. |
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Traditionally known for their prowess with ground forces, the Mongols rarely used naval power, with a few exceptions. |
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Cuauhipiltin, or eagle nobles, were commoners who impressed the nobles with their martial prowess, and were treated as nobles. |
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Arthur goes on to win many battles due to his military prowess and Merlin's counsel. |
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He smiled at this proudly, like he was the campus pussy-bandit being lauded for his prowess by his unlaid friends. |
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As his engineering prowess grew, Telford was to return to this material repeatedly. |
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Due to its striking hunting technique, the peregrine has often been associated with aggression and martial prowess. |
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Extraverts, because of their verbal prowess, would be able to smooth-talk their way through almost any situation. |
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It will combine Alibaba's strength in traditional computing, cloud computing and CAS' prowess in quantum computing and AI, they said. |
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Having purchased two new dealerships in the span of a year, Davis' management prowess was put to the test. |
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A WARWICKSHIRE landscaper has been rewarded for his creative prowess after scooping a top prize in a prestigious awards ceremony. |
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Standing at 5,895 metres, Mount Kilimanjaro made great demands on both their physical prowess and mental strength. |
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In the show area, Team Maximum Lock, the number one drift team in the Maltese islands, treated crowds to a stunning display of drifting prowess. |
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He has reached the point in technical prowess where he can truly tell a story with a drumkit. |
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Cameras follow a male flamer bowerbird as it shows off its artistic prowess to impress a potential mate. |
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As narcocorridos extolled his prowess, he built his business empire. |
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It is his second disc as a leader and this evening's set promises to showcase his meatily tough soloing prowess. |
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Apart from their scientific prowess, this year's finalists have diverse talents in athletics, arts, and letters. |
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Bitetti said the purchase should help give SSI more prowess in video-game development. |
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But, as a graduate of the university of hard knocks, Lord Sugar of Hackneyed is not the sort of peer of the realm to be overly impressed by academic prowess. |
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With his natural charisma and physical prowess, Bruce Lee brought kung fu to a whole new level of recognition, as well as to whole new international audience. |
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Despite my dendrology prowess, he insisted that I was mistaken. |
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In this view the Truce had enabled the Dutch to gain very unequal advantages in the trade with the Iberian Peninsula and the Mediterranean, owing to their mercantile prowess. |
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He was disinterested in military matters but had prowess in archery. |
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Li Shimin had commanded troops since the age of 18, had prowess with bow and arrow, sword and lance and was known for his effective cavalry charges. |
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Spartan commanders, often seen as the pinnacle of Greek military prowess, were known for their tactical trickery, and, for them, this was a feat to be desired in a commander. |
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When tribes from the north of the Balkan Peninsula invaded, they brought with them a new pantheon of gods, based on conquest, force, prowess in battle, and violent heroism. |
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Croaking provides a reliable sign of body size and hence of prowess. |
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Early on it was the Bulldogs who were clearly the aggressors, playing hard in the paint and getting baskets with muscle more than with their shooting prowess. |
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This was also the first battle in decades to be an Asian victory over a European power and marked Russia's inability to match Japan's military prowess. |
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Muscular Mohammed Awadhi put his strength to the test over the weekend in a fitness challenge competition and picked up a prize for his push-up prowess. |
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The poetry praises the military prowess of the prince in a language that is deliberately antiquarian and obscure, echoing the earlier praise poetry tradition of Taliesin. |
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The Gesta includes other fantastical tales about Hereward's prowess, including disguising himself as a potter to spy on the king and escaping from captivity. |
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The region was home to many principalities which had inland naval prowess. |
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Formerly a Pharisee, Paul confesses what he did as one of those learned elite, using intellectual prowess to co-opt holy law to coerce and repress. |
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Despite the growing need for supervisory prowess, getting countries to focus on the importance of allotting sufficient resources to the task is tough. |
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Literature was doing well, but the fine arts languished as the Great Exhibition of 1851 showcased Britain's industrial prowess rather than its sculpture, painting or music. |
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In 821, Coenwulf was succeeded by his brother Ceolwulf, who demonstrated his military prowess by his attack on and destruction of the fortress of Deganwy in Gwynedd. |
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His technical prowess and magnetic performance style won Peplowski a nomination as the 2002 clarinetist of the year from the Jazz Journalists Association. |
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The scene on the beach is only slightly less raucous than the one in the water, hundreds of onlookers hooting at the prowess, and wipeouts, of the world's best bodysurfers. |
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Due to its geographic proximity to Hong Kong and its economic prowess, Shenzhen stands as the most logical point of preliminary integration for Hong Kong. |
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