There is pride at stake here, and it looks as if Microsoft is deploying all of its prodigious resources to make Halo 4 a hit.
The largest of them required prodigious resources and employed tens of thousands of priests, craftsmen, and laborers.
Housing and caring for the gods were the obligations of pharaohs, who therefore dedicated prodigious resources to temple construction and maintenance.
The Communist Party set out to change that in 2002, when it began Project 119, a program that uses prodigious state resources and relentless training to groom potential gold medalists in sports like swimming, gymnastics and track and field.
If ExxonMobil would devote as much of its prodigious lobbying resources to implementing a carbon tax as it has to resisting the elimination of tax loopholes, I might be persuaded that it understands the "very long run".
His fertile imagination, embracing a novel range of literary and historical themes and fastening with a characteristic sense of the sadness of life on moments of death, defeat, and suffering, together with his prodigious technical resources exemplify Romanticism in its most obvious aspects.
France has put itself in a good position in the race for the prodigious natural resources of the Sahara, and it would be hard to imagine that the French will just drop the Tuareg rebellion, which has always been their trump card.
Parliament will begin final work this week on a bill that will give the government ultimate ownership of all of the country's prodigious mineral resources, which mining companies would then exploit only under license, giving the state the final say over who digs what and where.
► Afghanistan recently passed a mining law, positioning the country to begin exploiting its "prodigious mineral resources, valued at some $908 billion," writes Richard Stone in this week's Science.
As the flood of foreign aid that has buoyed Afghanistan's economy for more than a decade recedes, the country's prosperity may well depend on its prodigious mineral resources, valued at $908 billion.
