21.   Despite its reputation for technological prowess, Germany has had a hard time catching up with French rivals in marketing high-speed trains abroad.

22.   Japan is only now beginning to reckon the cost of the quake on a society that thought its technological prowess could shield it against disaster.

23.   It will also promote improvements in industrial productivity and technological prowess, along with encouraging the development of new business enterprises.

24.   Not only was the Japanese economy superb in its size, it was considered to be super-efficient and its technological prowess excellent and it was fast rivalling the US.

25.   Industrial England was celebrating its technological prowess.