Sentence examples for naval prowess from inspiring English sources
(4) announce what has hitherto been largely implicit: The FONOPs are not being done merely to brandish American naval prowess.
The theory of the open polar sea made credible the quest for the Northwest Passage, which, in turn, gave England a new way to assert its naval prowess and its national identity.
As regular users of the bridge contemplated their own good fortune, they also recalled previous tragedies that have afflicted Genoa, a city revered in the Middle Ages for its naval prowess but left vulnerable to flash floods and landslides due to poor urban planning over the last 50 years or so.
The carrier — which docked last week in Hong Kong in a good-faith gesture from Beijing — also offered a snapshot into challenges for the Pentagon in the Asia-Pacific region as China builds up its own naval prowess and ramps up efforts to solidify territorial demands.
Our two port cities have long been rivals – in shipbuilding prowess, in fleets (merchant versus naval) and, latterly and occasionally most violently, football teams.
Meanwhile, China has showed visible displays of its own growing maritime prowess, such as during gigantic naval exercises in April, showcasing nuclear submarines for a celebration of the 60th anniversary of the naval arm of the People's Liberation Army.
Although England's defeat of Philip II's Armada in 1588 helped to lessen Spanish sea power, it was the Dutch who early in the next century really broke that power and became the world's foremost naval and commercial nation, with science and skills commensurate with their prowess.
"All that technical prowess".
Successive battles — from the naval bombardment of Alexandria in 1882 to the wars with Israel in the mid-20th century — understandably generated popular and elite concern with military prowess.
Of his basketball prowess.
