• In particular, the sunlight and wind speed are too weak to meet a meaningful portion of the region's prodigious energy needs ... at least with today's technology.

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  • Workday's software makes prodigious use of the Web's extensible markup language, or xml, which facilitates sharing of documents or data among applications.

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  • Mr Vidal's prodigious output has been, as even his warmest admirers must concede, wildly uneven.

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  • As for bad policies based on bad economics, these remain too numerous to mention, despite Mr Samuelson's prodigious efforts.

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  • Just a small fraction of Mr Mulcaire's prodigious workload could provide the wherewithal for a lot of criminal prosecutions and civil suits.

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  • And Mr Roth's prodigious gift for storytelling and character seem to have become eclipsed by his equally prodigious gifts for rage and indignation.

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  • Corigliano says he tailored it specifically for Drucker's prodigious musical skills.

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  • The changes, if implemented, would likely cut into Amgen's prodigious profits.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Should London win its bid to host the 2012 Olympic Games, it will hope that someone of Mrs Blankers-Koen's prodigious talent will set the track alight.

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  • Perhaps the biggest threat to Amgen's prodigious profits is competition.

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  • He won -- and soon became embroiled in a six-year long festering dispute with his former colleagues in government over how much information he should have in order to fulfil his role in safeguarding Singapore's prodigious financial reserves.

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  • There followed something marvellous to behold: the further, rapid expansion of the former speaker's already prodigious ego.

    ECONOMIST: Lexington

  • The man's energies were prodigious, and his ability to work under pressure never ceased to amaze me.

    FORBES: Happy Capitalist Warrior

  • The result could also be to improve the USSR's present, prodigious capacity to threaten American interests and those of its allies.

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  • Many 7-footers who fill the lane are known for their blocking or rebounding ability, but despite being taken in the first round of the 2001 draft, out of Stanford, Collins has never averaged more than 6.1 rebounds a game (during the 2004-05 season at that), and he's never been a prodigious shot blocker.

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  • Home Depot's market clout is so prodigious that it can make manufacturers do crazy things--like upset their distribution channels.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Australia chose to bat but were 41-5 by the 17th over as Pakistan's three main seamers extracted prodigious movement.

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  • U.S. politicians have wasted prodigious amounts of money that would better have been left with entrepreneurs, investors, and consumers.

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  • It is the most prodigious diversification ever for the world's largest producer of oil--and the state-owned Saudi company put a woman at the helm.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Mr. Meltzer's activities the books, the comics, the TV show have accomplished several things: They've furnished a comfortable income (take that, Dr. Freud), provided outlets for the author's creativity and for his prodigious research in the bowels of the National Archives, and have made him increasingly anxiety-ridden.

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  • Its latest rendition shares an authoritative feel, the 85-year-old Attenborough giving the same sense of having seen it all in the line "they'll learn much more than I'll ever know" to Armstrong's original, although the prodigious smoker of marijuana and the former controller of BBC Two perhaps have little else in common.

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  • He emerges from these pages as Germany's equivalent of America's Thomas Jefferson or Britain's William Ewart Gladstone: a polymath of prodigious energy and formidable intellectual power.

    ECONOMIST: Historical biography

  • Rooney usually finds a way to contribute even when he's not playing well, mainly because of his prodigious work rate.

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  • But as Charlie Cook, a political analyst, points out, winning the nomination requires prodigious fundraising and some measure of backing from the party's powerbrokers.

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  • Muneo Suzuki is a backbench MP from the northern island of Hokkaido who was a prodigious fundraiser and a key player in the ruling party's richest and most powerful faction.

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  • China's imports have ballooned this year, thanks to its prodigious stimulus spending and a rise in commodity prices.

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  • To pass the time on one of his visits Miss Bailey's father recalled that as a child she had shown a prodigious talent sketching the animals in the farm attached to their Shropshire home.

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  • The poster's creator was Jon Whitcomb (1906-1988), a prominent American artist known for his prodigious drafting skills.

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