Sentence examples for supposed prowess from inspiring English sources

In February , 1920 he collected a meagre five thousand dollars; five months later, he was raking in a million dollars weekly. Ponzi's business drew in thousands of investors, bewitched by his supposed prowess.

Presuming for the moment that the NSA and the larger US government didn't know about Heartbleed — and you have to ask why, given their supposed prowess —  it doesn't close the loophole until all is patched.

Friends told friends about Dominelli's supposed prowess in the international currency market.

The innate humor of toilet talk fuses with the supposed prowess of American leadership or in this case, the lack thereof creating an inversion of perceived power, making the invitation to pee on the face of a potential future president doubly symbolic.

The aim, again, was to showcase US firepower and Trump's supposed martial prowess.

They are surely not playing him because of his supposed batting prowess.

But some investors said they had questioned Mr. Madoff's supposed investment prowess years ago, pointing to his unnaturally steady returns, his vague investment strategy and the obscure accounting firm that audited his books.

Their supposed investment prowess lured hundreds of millions of dollars from public pension funds and universities and earned the two lavish trappings of success: stately homes, a stake in the New York Islanders and, for Mr. Greenwood, a horse farm that once belonged to Paul Newman.

It seems so quaint these days that we were once outraged by Enron, a would be corporate wheeler-dealer in the 21st century energy markets whose supposed financial prowess turned out to be so much in the way of old-fashioned smoke and mirrors.

There, at least, UAE's supposed military prowess isn't yielding much practical benefit for Washington.

In James Bond, also a Navy commander, also in intelligence and special ops, he created an exemplar of Britain's supposed secret prowess in the clandestine world.