The winning general, King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, showed exceptional skill as a commander.
These talented analysts have shown exceptional skill in advising investors on when to buy, sell or hold, as well as for accurately forecasting earnings.
A month later, he received a Bar to his DFC, having been adjudged to have shown "exceptional skill and gallantry in combat ... Undeterred by superior numbers of attacking aircraft, he presses home his attacks with great determination".
Dr David Lowry Stoneleigh, Surrey Alan Rusbridger has shown exceptional skills and imagination in maintaining the balance between "material and moral existence – profit and power", which, as CP Scott wrote 94 years ago, is essential if a newspaper is to be great.
After all, he argues, did not Mozart become Mozart by dint of hard work?This may seem to be easily refuted by popular legends about geniuses such as Mozart, Paganini and Gauss, which report that they all showed exceptional skills in early childhood before receiving a shred of formal instruction.
Meaning "artisan" in Japanese, the title of Takumi is bestowed only on those who have shown exceptional skills and exemplary dedication, proving they are indeed worthy of this appellation.
There are a lot of drivers in F1 at the moment who show exceptional skills in battle - Hamilton, Verstappen, Vettel and Fernando Alonso are all superb at racing for position - but Ricciardo makes a strong case for being the best of the lot at this aspect of the game.
But there's more mythology than history in the idea that Lincoln showed exceptional political skill in offering cabinet positions to the men he had beaten in the race for the 1860 Republican nomination.
If we truly wanted to gauge whether a player showed exceptional passing skill, we might ask whether his passes led to better shots than other players' passes, even for the same shooter.
Of Anderson's theater work I saw only "Home" and, in a sense, "In Celebration," which was a film of an Anderson theater production, both of which showed exceptional yet unobtrusive skill.
Individual birds may show exceptional intelligence.
