Supercomputing technologies were widely viewed as indicators of national industrial prowess in the 1980's and 1990's.

At the same time, the Exposition was designed to show the world the United States' industrial and innovative prowess.

Also, she failed to be swayed by arguments that Britain's future industrial prowess crucially depends on a strong base in computing research.

From that moment, the US put almost its entire will and industrial prowess into the war effort.

Mr Cha was best known for his industrial prowess, building a multinational textile conglomerate.

The United States is the world's only superpower because no other nation can match our industrial prowess.

And it was repeatedly welcomed by art critics in search of a new esthetic commensurate with America's booming industrial prowess.

For Sweden, the "marriage" is perhaps more painful, since Volvo has long been a symbol of the country's industrial prowess.

Japan's industrial prowess and its relations with the United States could be affected.

And steelmaking, in Germany as in many other countries, has always had a special symbolic resonance of industrial prowess.