However, in spite of his military prowess Manuel achieved but a slight degree of his object of restoring the Byzantine Empire.
Fletcher's masterful biography penetrates the myths surrounding Díaz de Vivar to expose a warrior who was neither a crusading zealot nor a nationalistic hero, but a man of his time: an ambitious, land-hungry mercenary who used his martial prowess to achieve advancement.
It is comforting to think that, many years hence, Hernandez might wake up one morning overwhelmed with horror at just how much he squandered — a forty-million-dollar contract, the adulation of a sports-crazed city, enough natural athletic prowess to achieve football immortality.
He has bafflingly under achieved given his prowess on the greens.
Hamas, hoping to capitalize on the gains it says were achieved by its fighting prowess, urged farmers on border land and fishermen to avoid clashes and keep the peace.
We're not sure how -- or why -- Anky has achieved this level of ping-pong prowess, but would you look at those reflexes?
While a teenager at St . Marys, he achieved local renown for his baseball-playing prowess, and in 1914 Jack Dunn, owner of the local minor-league Baltimore Orioles franchise, signed him to a contract for $600.
Those in charge of the prison yard weren't the prison officers, but a select few hardened inmates who had achieved dominance through calculated violence and political prowess.
Species like chimps and gorillas do have social structures and hierarchies with a dominant individual at the top, typically a male who has achieved that positon via displays of strength and physical prowess.
Watching all this, I found myself contemplating how much could be achieved if all of this effort, ingenuity, and engineering prowess were instead directed toward developing clean power?
