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How to use formidable in a sentence

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The musician works alone behind the closed door and within formidable soundproof walls.
Getting and staying married may seem formidable to a young pregnant woman because marriage is filled with a hundred irritations and difficulties.
The word Glasgow means Dear Green Place, but the grey Scottish sky adds gravity and seriousness to already formidable architecture.
Blacks, whites, shadows, glooms, and cobwebs are also used with formidable effect in the Satis House scenes in Great Expectations.
Steven, Kiri and now Monty were channeling every dreg of their formidable power into their defense of Rose, but they were overmatched.
On paper they are a formidable outfit but poor decision making and a concession of penalties are costing them dearly.
The pace is formidable, the wry tone even and well-sustained, and the narrative fluently written.
Given the porousness of U.S. borders and the volume of international traffic, sealing off the country would be a formidable task.
He delegated to junior ministers, but retained a formidable grasp of the policy details.
Castelbaldo, today a rustic town, was then furnished with a formidable castle, which the Paduans had provisioned with food and arms.
The partnership she has established with Ian Waite looks formidable and has impressed the panel of four judges.
Among a formidable list of opponents, the American Deena Kastor may be the most dangerous.
It was part of Ben's family coat of arms, the Great Ash surrounded by four elk with formidable antlers.
As for Johnson, the old Lion may be getting a bit long in the tooth but he is still a formidable opponent.
The problem of educating the peripatetic children who lived on the canal boats was formidable.
The faceless, inanimate riot police are far more imposing and formidable than the passionate workers.
When they could be provoked into a fight or caught at all, Comanche warriors proved formidable foes, even for expert riflemen.
This made him a formidable thinker but his knowledge and expertise did not just come from midnight oil.
They are strong at the back, very formidable at midfield, while their forwards are in a class of their own.
First a formidable cartel makes a tight combine and launches an advertisement blitz against the hapless rivals.
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The more demure ladies in the group recoiled in horror, but my fatso friends and I peered at this formidable dish in silent wonder.
I would never have thought I could climb such formidable mountains, so it was an incredible thrill to be able to do it.
In all this indirection, finding direction out is, admittedly, a formidable enterprise.
This means that neutron stars are formidable radiation emitters and particle accelerators.
Almost everyone is familiar with the nettle through its formidable sting, but few know about the important role it plays in the natural world.
The formidable royal castle towering above the Danube still breathes the air of this era.
As the story goes, she was a formidable woman who did not take to fools kindly.
You are aware, of course, that she is insane, but she is also endowed with formidable psychic gifts.
Whoever it was, they have assembled a formidable array of talent and spent a lot of money.
The combination of the software of biological human intelligence with the benefits of non-biological intelligence will be very formidable.
Big rivers, formidable mountains and jungle-like rainforest were among the physical challenges.
It was solid oak, hard and formidable, shining gloss in the dimly lit kitchen.
The exhibition opens with a section on Solomon's juvenilia, and shows him already with a voice of his own and a formidable technique.
The wide estuary of the River Tay on the east coast of Scotland presented a formidable obstacle to transport.
The business world might look formidable from the outside but not everyone has a double first in economics and maths from St Andrews.
Last October's local elections revealed it to be a formidable force, outspending and outpolling the competition.
To keep growing at its current pace, Houghton must surmount some formidable challenges.
First, the British idler has a more formidable work culture to contend with.
But the insurgency lacks the ideological coherence or organization it would need to grow into a more formidable force.
The team actually starts winning, which leads inexorably to the final showdown against the formidable rivals.
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Along the way, they encountered hostile forces, fierce weather and a formidable landscape.
Hawksmoor's intercolumniation is 18 feet, a formidable span for a stone entablature.
Prosecuting big-time corrupters has proven to be a formidable task even after four years under the reform movement.
I turned the empire from a weakened state to a formidable industrial powerhouse.
At least the movie does a formidable service by proving once and for all that neither marijuana nor LSD is the true gateway drug.
The Squid was a formidable weapon in the war against the U-boat, capable of being preset to explode at a pre-determined depth.
In fact, Europe now faces a much more formidable set of challenges regarding Galileo's future compatibility.
At each stage of this third period, the collision between Hagiocracy and these messianic forces becomes more formidable.
Bayern would look more formidable if they could get two of their most talented midfielders fully fit.
That made her much more formidable an adversary because she didn't have the usual narcissistic vanity.
Priory opened with a mix of pace and leg spin which was to prove a formidable formula.
And now for Federer, who will be all the more formidable for his day of leisure yesterday.
But this past summer, the movement faced even more formidable organizing challenges within its own ranks.
Congress can always retrieve its formidable vote bank among minorities, Dalits and forward castes by some good planning and homework.
It seems the formidable competitive streak which made him the world's greatest all-round athlete remains.
The singer's formidable skills are frustratingly wasted on this trite, piano-backed piece.
Lastly, the hatred and contempt of the past two millennia add a formidable barrier to authentic communication.
Together they form a formidable A-team of masterful musicians who are so special you feel that they are capable of tilting the world on its axis.
Almost two decades after its fledgling, janky website went live, Amazon is now one of the most formidable corporations out there.
Costumes were put on just before we were due to go on, according to Mr. B and his formidable Russian wardrobe mistress.
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The matron, who was in charge of us, was a formidable figure and you didn't want to get in her bad books.
Its sheer size makes it formidable, and its movement is apparently unstoppable.
With such a formidable pack, introduce more 3rd row and forward play off line-outs, scrums and rucks and mauls.
He has built a formidable reputation on challenging the corporate orthodoxy.
A formidable songstress in her own right, the West Philly native comes home for an intimate evening of folky soul.
There the King learned that a formidable French fleet lay at anchor in the mouth of the Zwyn, guarding the approaches to Bruges.
It was an emphatic victory and formidable testimony to his talent and determination.
The prime minister is not sufficiently restored in authority that he can risk making a move against his still formidable Chancellor.
One of these visitors was Johann Hummel, well known in his day as a formidable pianist outdone on the keyboard only by Beethoven himself.
Pittodrie presently holds one of the most formidable fear factors in the Premierleague.
In other words, the world, the flesh, and the devil are formidable obstacles to responding to the light and grace that God gives.
In Hassan, though, he came up against a formidable opponent and a smart street fighter.
Daschle is faced with the formidable task of refocusing the nation's attention on domestic issues, particularly the economy.
Long before he wrote his first song, he was already demonstrating formidable musical skills.
And besides, to be able to create emotions with writing is formidable as it is.
Arrows have proven the nemesis of most teams visiting Durban and have established themselves as a formidable outfit.
And his left hook was every bit as formidable and devastating as his uppercut.
The rebelliousness of teenagers in the 1950s and 60s happened against a formidable structure of convinced, if largely unexamined, certainties.
His performance revealed how formidable he is as the power behind the throne and how inadequate as a public man.
The woman who lost two husbands and two sons to violent deaths has now come across another formidable foe in this legendary police roundsman.
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Not that he was a formidable figure bestriding the political scene like a colossus.
She remains a formidable presence, still charismatic and sharp-witted after six decades of fame.
Mr Solomon heard that Zak was a purple belt in karate and had medals for rugby league as well as being a formidable footballer.
The plot construction is a bit convoluted, but at the core it is the unlikely romance between the ageing Lothario and the formidable divorcee.
The Conservative leader is formidable, a successful barrister with a good grasp of detail, albeit with a well-documented short fuse.
He can roll or slice his backhand, hook his forehand short, or hit it with a mix of pace and top spin that is formidable.
The highly trained Rangers can field formidable firepower for such a small and mobile force.
An immense network of 10,000 to 20,000 Alpha processors will form the basis of this formidable number cruncher.
These beasts lived largely in the sea and marginal river basins, where they hunted prey with their formidable crab-like claws.
A formidable intellect, a compassionate man of integrity and a scholar of the law, he already is a terrific judge.
Since then he has become a formidable quizmaster and he had kept all the questions he has ever asked in a filing cabinet.
It was a formidable engineering feat, for the line had to be cut through 420 km.
Many have sought to portray George VI as a weakling who was moulded by his formidable wife.
Lady Hester evidently came from Somerset, where she acquired a formidable reputation for breaking in the most vicious horses.
There's a formidable, unflinching adultness about Steely Dan, especially late Steely Dan, which is immensely impressive.
These awkward facts, combined with a formidable military capability, go a long way towards explaining the current colonialist adventurism.
But in the bruisingly fast world of battered global computer companies, a formidable weight rests on the slender shoulders of this 39-year-old.
He holds a formidable spell over Esperanza and controls her until she wises up and leaves him to pursue her career.
It seems unfair that a man of such vitality, intelligence, and formidable personality ended his public career with more of a whimper than a bang.
By the fourth season, each of the leads has fallen into a comfortable rhythm, and they've congealed into a formidable comedy team.
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Although crocodiles are formidable predators, taking prey as large as antelopes, they will allow crocodile birds to scavenge among their teeth.
Yet they also led to formidable new problems in organization and management.
What we do know is that she has a formidable mind, powerful admirers and a yellow plastic digger on her desk.
Recorded on a variety of media from phonographs, to reel-to-reel tape and DVD, the archive is as formidable as it is valuable.
What Pitt-Watson probably hadn't bargained for was the formidable figure sitting to Grossart's right.
Problems such as these still seem to present a formidable challenge to the ingenuity of algebraists.
The Hokkaido wolf is a formidable beast but not dangerous to man as long as other prey is to be had for the killing.
With a sprinkling of new players still bedding in, they looked ill at ease in the face of a familiar, and formidable, United side.
Such market failure presents a formidable barrier to accessing capital markets for finance.
So great was the demoralization that formidable fortresses capitulated to mere cavalry units.
A formidable array of armour and troops roared through in a never ending stream.
Although they are formidable hunters, leopard seals are solitary creatures and it is virtually unknown for them to attack humans.
Although it is expensive in hardcover, a paperback edition would make a formidable textbook for advanced undergraduates or graduate students.
That brings a formidable new dimension to the conflict, further magnified by its global scale.
Yet for a chef who shoots from the mouth, Ramsay inspires formidable loyalty.
The more you get into the intricacies of it, you see how sophisticated it often is and how formidable it is.
And second, the public career of one of the country's most formidable politicians.
You could battle for parking at DuPar's in the Farmers Market, an old-line coffee shop that does serve truly formidable French toast.
He was a formidable linguist, speaking 25 languages and many more dialects.
He assuredly bumped off a formidable array of erstwhile friends and possible rivals.
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She is somehow too robustly formidable, and the idea of killing her doesn't have the right mixture of pathos and horror.
The trick will be to blend this talent into a formidable team by championship time.
At 25, her success has been formidable, but she is oddly unhelpful about applying her reputed intelligence to an understanding of it.
The unpredictable Missouri weather lived up to its formidable reputation as it blustered all week.
In the face of such formidable colleagues, Jo's desire to impress and succeed is even more acute.
Amid these twaddlers he presents the formidable front of a man with meaning, confident of his cause, and devoted to it with all his faculty.
It was fought against the Mahrattas, a formidable Hindu confederacy of warriors and marauders who dominated much of Central India.
Sitting here in front of him in his Stormont Office, I see the formidable politician he has become.
Anybody's list of cricket writers would include the formidable Marxist critic CLR James and the immortal Neville Cardus.
Although the offensive line is without a center, it still is a formidable group.
The report said the abolition of import quotas on Chinese textiles and apparel in key markets in 2005 will make China a formidable competitor.
So, when my formidable granny asked me, from the other end of the table, to repeat my request, the entire family stared.
Henrik Pedersen put 17 months of anguish behind him on Sunday to outgun one of the most formidable attacks in the Premiership.
In some cases, the fans have been formidable and have outgunned the board in business experience or PR skills.
The doctrine in detail is one of formidable complexity, but its basic principle is simple.
His accomplishments were formidable during the first three decades of his reign.
The sheer glee with which Schoeffler attacks these issues, and his unflagging commitment, make him a formidable adversary.
That is not to say that the English thegn was any less formidable than the Norman knight, as Hastings was to show.
The first game after the enforced break was a tough encounter against formidable opponents.
They don't have the slightest idea of anything sensible to say, so a formidable quote always slips out.
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She is truly formidable, rather like one of those fantastic figureheads on a tall ship.
He led his team of skilful but unpredictable players to Portugal, hell-bent on adding to his formidable reputation.
The shipbuilders have been playing well and are formidable opponents for anyone on their own patch.
She has been formidable from start to finish, and is one of the hardest workers in the company.
Snowboy's lead on congas and assorted Afro-Cuban beatboxes is shared with shimmering vocals by Davide Giovanni and backed by the formidable talents of the Latin Section.
Other outlets fielded their own formidable crews to cover the oil spill, but only ABC fielded a lacrosse team.
He's already become a formidable, almost mythical figure to many hardcore cinephiles and critics, the kind of filmmaker who gets described in magical, visionary terms.
This aside, the list of hurdles he must overcome is still formidable.
The delay enabled the Japanese garrison of 19,000 troops to construct the most formidable beach defences, a way through which had to be cleared by underwater demolition teams.
Ultimately it was this haphazardness, a seemingly carefree approach to cutting-edge climbs, along with his formidable intellect and wit, which forged the Smith legend.
Viewers didn't know it, but Anne was as formidable a presence behind the screens as she was on it, changing scripts and recutting films until she was satisfied.
Human rights as an ideology is a potent mobiliser of support for imperialist interventions and, as mentioned, a formidable guarantor of legitimacy.
With more attention and focus to his bowling he could become a truly formidable international cricketer, secure in the knowledge that he has more to offer than just the slog.
The northern view to our little island Isay is blocked by the 500-metre peak of Ben Dhubh, but to the north-west, Taransay looks barrenly formidable.
If Randa hits like he did in the second half, and Lopez was to continue his tear, they would have one of the more formidable offenses in baseball.
The contemporary newspapers, even those opposed to George's policies, almost entirely agreed in paying tribute to his remarkable oratory and formidable rhetorical skills.
The always reliable actress brings a flinty edge to the formidable Maggie.
The circulars created formidable bureaucratic regulations to collect the tariff, with those importing goods via railways facing particularly onerous requirements.
What versions of all that insanity would poke through the din of conversation between these formidable eleven women?
He was a formidable athlete as well as a notable Westmorland cleric.
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As a pioneer used to thinking outside the box, Odent demonstrates familiarity with a formidable range of subjects, from ethnography to endocrinology.
Of course, he's horribly plausible and a formidable election campaigner.
Terfel roars out his righteous rage and coos his ludicrous love songs with equal aplomb, making the formidable vocal feats seem almost ridiculously easy.
But despite being the third string at Selby, Charlie Booth's side have a formidable spirit of team-work and have beaten a number of higher ranked teams before.
Without such prodding, the machine's wand simply doesn't have enough torque to move ice cream so formidable.
So when Vitter got into trouble, he was a known quantity who had shown himself to be politically formidable.
So destructive was Vabaza that detractors doubted Shabani's boxing ability and called on Vabaza to prove himself against a more formidable fighter.
But while the obstacles to evidence-based governance are formidable, they are not insurmountable.
At Michigan, he would be a formidable recruiter, able to evoke the tradition of his former iconic coach, bo Schembechler.
If yesterday's purchase of shares is the precursor to a takeover bid, those qualities will make them formidable opponents for the Manchester United board.
Collecting, analyzing, and assimilating information at this level of detail is a formidable challenge for intelligence analysts, policymakers, and warfighters alike.
His glossy technique as a straight jazz swinger is formidable.
Instead, U.S. forces generally remain penned up in formidable cantonments.
Without such a check, the press, in the hands of evil and designing men, would become a most formidable engine, and as mighty for mischief as for good.
Drawing inspiration from the anti-war movement, it aims to unite all those horrified by New Labour's programme of war and neoliberalism into a formidable electoral force.
But the longer the half wore on the sense a tad more craft, guile or cunning was needed to break through the formidable and sizeable Shrewsbury defence grew and grew.
Still, there is plenty to commend about Cotton, and he is a formidable candidate.
They allowed some of the weekend's 700 visitors the chance to handle a longbow, the English national weapon in the Middle Ages and a formidable force on the battlefield.
The Great White Shark has gone grey, although rumours that he has taken to keeping those formidable gnashers of his in a jar by the bed remain unconfirmed at this time.
What interests me enormously is the formidable capacity of photo-sensitive material to distort and fantasticate, nearly always dramatically, everything it touches.
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A formidable creature half lion, half eagle, the griffin is said to be one thousand times stronger than any lion and five thousand times as farsighted as an eagle.
Recoil in horror as he allows The View ladies to tousle his formidable mane!
Though lame, he grows up strong and agile and a formidable bowman.
He rose from solicitor's clerk and part-time secularist lecturer to become one of the most formidable public speakers and unofficial legal advocates in Victorian Britain.
The inconvenience and hassles involved, particularly when patients are illiterate and unable to communicate meaningfully with doctors, are formidable.
Perfect use of lighting, scenography and projections emphasised slick performances by a formidable cast and an evocative musical score was the cherry on the cake.
Here was a formidable antiquarian and linguist, fluent in classical and romance languages, as well as Hebrew, Arabic, Persian, Aramaic, Anglo-Saxon, and a half dozen others.
Every aria she sang was a highlight, not least the formidable Act 1 scena which can hold up its musical head in the exalted territory of Come scoglio.
Under the umbrella of their different tariqas the brotherhoods developed formidable organizations bound by personal ties of allegiance to their leaders.
She rises to the formidable challenge of bringing together her three very different, marginalized figures for thoughtful comparisons and synthesis.
Economic hardship and popular demoralisation may create social and political instabilities which are more formidable threats to the regime than war with South Korea.
It's a formidable challenge for a first timer, but don't for one fleeting moment discount the young man's chances of landing what would truly be an outstanding double.
Tron finds the MCP, which for such a formidable foe, turns out to be a mean cartoon-animated face.
For some, these may prove to be altogether more formidable adversaries.
Despite his formidable name, Poole is far from being the Green-Wood resident with the most blood on his hands.
What killed the saber-toothed tiger, the mastodon and the mammoth, formidable animals that were on top of the food chain in North America 20,000 years ago?
Although the media can be reluctant to analyse or even accept that its own role is any more than that of an objective observer, its networks are formidable.
Communism was a formidable foe, administered by a one-party authoritarian state apparatus, and lodged in institutions and practices of its centralized command economy.
Perhaps it was the violin's formidable heritage, or the choice of repertoire, which accounts for the politely reverential tone of much of the recording.
When he gets going he is very formidable and takes some stopping.
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Some of the most talented artists in the area belong to this group and I would encourage anyone with an interest to go along to see the formidable talent for themself.
While Meall a'Ghiubhais is a straightforward climb from the path, the steep screes and formidable northern crags of Ruadh-stac Beag makes a direct ascent almost impossible.
The men wearing numbers 5, 6 and 35 make up a defensive triumvirate as formidable, aggressive, powerful and obdurate as any in the club's history.
Between them, the five men can muster a formidable array of expertise in artificial intelligence, computational linguistics, 3D graphics and marketing.
Any institution striving to examine such an iconic figure would find formidable challenges.
As for the correct time, the U.S. Naval Observatory's Atomic Clock is the basis for what's probably the Web's most formidable chronometrical site.
He has been caricatured, as a man more interested in country and western music than opera, and it is true that he has a formidable expertise in the area of popular music.
Sceptics about musical meaning tend to regard these alternatives under the sign of Scylla and Charybdis, as formidable dangers nearly impossible to avoid.
It was fitted with a sturdy bayonet bar to which could be attached a formidable brass-handled sword bayonet with a 23-inch blade.
The Spice Girls' image was deliberately aimed at young girls, an audience of formidable size and potential.
This one-dimensionality makes Germinal a formidable national monument, but not much cop as a film.
This latest attempt comes from the likes of Viking, Kenmore and Wolf, a formidable lineup to promote these cooktops.
Yet it was in Athens where his most formidable contemporary critics could be found.
Montero's most formidable competition in the all-star balloting is expected to come from Lake Elsinore catcher George Kottaras, who's batting.
Aguateca was stormed by unknown enemies around 810 AD, who overcame its formidable defences and burned the royal palace.
In the second game, Lad looked fresher and more formidable while Rane appeared jaded and soon faded away conceding a string of soft points.
Because globalization has a firm grip on human communities, challenging its power is a formidable task.
In turn, the squid is a formidable hunter of large marine creatures like the Patagonian toothfish that can grow to be more than 6 ft long.
And Udinese can even move top of Serie A with a win over Chievo this afternoon at their formidable Stadio Friuli.
Fifth Army offensive stalled along the formidable Gustav Line that stretched from the Adriatic Sea to the Tyrrhenian Sea.
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Fat Pat was a formidable figure, how would she be driven off by pipsqueaks Ian and Barry?
To avoid the fatal consequences of polyspermy, female reproductive tracts have evolved to become formidable barriers to sperm.
This year's competition in Orlando, Florida, which is pending as of this writing, will also include a formidable home school contingent.
The sole purpose of this formidable display of telepathic prestidigitation is to extract from my mind the diagnosis for the next case.
So, at last, backed by a formidable phalange of femfans, I dare speak up, brave lassie that I am.
Roman armies were not invincible, despite their formidable reputation and host of victories.
Louis feared a further escalation of the conflict against this formidable coalition.
Giants are rough but generally righteous characters of formidable strength living up the hills of the Basque Country.
In this text, he is presented as the most formidable knight at King Arthur's court.
Some of the National's most challenging fences have also been modified, while still preserving them as formidable obstacles.
Along the Pacific Ocean coast lie the Coast Ranges, which, while not approaching the scale of the Rocky Mountains, are formidable nevertheless.
Haakon rejected the claim, and in the following year responded with a formidable invasion.
His mother was by all accounts a formidable woman who, legend would have it, kept Robert Bruce's father captive until he agreed to marry her.
These two women, among the most formidable in Scottish history, established a good understanding.
Mary escaped from Edinburgh to Dunbar and by 18 March returned with a formidable force.
The regiment took part in many fierce engagements throughout 1944, including those against the Gothic Line, a formidable defensive line.
Quickly she developed into a prominent member of the group and developed a formidable stage presence.
Wihtred of Kent died in 725, and Ine of Wessex, one of the most formidable rulers of his day, abdicated in 726 to go on a pilgrimage to Rome.
Welsh Labour's predecessor bodies bequeathed it a formidable electoral inheritance, upon which it was to build still further.
The effectiveness of these tactics earned Vikings a formidable reputation as raiders and pirates.
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In World War II, it was recognised that the Rhine would present a formidable natural obstacle to the invasion of Germany, by the Western Allies.
However, even an injured walrus is a formidable opponent for a polar bear, and direct attacks are rare.
They would raid monasteries for their wealth and lack of formidable defenders.
However, these plans were eventually abandoned, due to the formidable logistical challenge this would have posed.
From then on, over many decades, the Plymouth constabulary grew in size and discipline to a formidable force.
Nevertheless, the increasing strength of the Arians proved a formidable task for Ambrose.
In their first contacts with native peoples, the firearms, including arquebuses, used by the conquistadors were formidable weapons.
When Tsar Samuil saw the broken remains of his once formidable army, he died of shock.
Unlike the formidable women of his grandfather's day, Kublai's wives and daughters were an almost invisible presence.
The Republic of Venice had become a formidable power, and a key player in the Eastern spice trade.
Protestant preachers rallied a considerable army and a formidable cavalry, which came under the leadership of Admiral Gaspard de Coligny.
They were described as formidable warriors and ferocious cannibals, builders of the finest vessels in the Pacific, but not great sailors.
Lace and ruff collars were unavoidable, and presented a formidable challenge to painters intent on realism.
Their marriage having broken down in 1604, his wife Elizabeth went on to become a formidable protagonist and thorn in his side.
After several years, Fairchild developed into a formidable presence in the sector.
And yet despite his formidable record and undoubted importance in the history of technology, Evans never became a household name.
Gaining access to every apartment to open the vents and enter the ducting has been a formidable drawback.
The Rajput is the most worthy antagonist, the Mahratta the most formidable enemy.
The Indian war rockets were formidable weapons before such rockets were used in Europe.
But it was the set of her jaw and the coolness in her green eyes that made me feel how really formidable she was.
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Given Frank's bankerly appearance, one might have expected him to be a somewhat stern and formidable personality.
With one blow of the axe, Captain Nemo cut this formidable tentacle, that slid wriggling down the ladder.
This circus is in the UK with its show, Yin Yang, and features the formidable Shaolin Warrior known only as The One.
The Hobblers have all the guile in midfield in Paul Gascoigne and David Beckham, but not such a formidable attack in Andy Cole and Paul Scholes.
Home invasion robbery represents an especially troubling crime trend and a formidable challenge to law enforcement.
The formidable Irishwoman was enrolled as a Special Constable during the Paisley riots when the Irish Home Rulers clashed with the Orangemen.
The Whiteboys, the most formidable of the agrarian rebels, had things their own way for nearly five years in spite of occasional capital convictions.
Of these, the Sarmatians and the Dacians posed the most formidable threat.
That helped the Windies to a formidable 205-4 in their 20 overs.
Rollo's son and heir, William Longsword, and grandchild, Richard the Fearless, forged the Duchy of Normandy into West Francia's most cohesive and formidable principality.
He sees the work of Perrault as the most formidable undertaking of interpretation and re-appropriation of the ideas of these three literary figures of the Grand Siecle.
The Iberian Saracens had incorporated Berber lighthorse cavalry with the heavy Arab cavalry to create a formidable army that had almost never been defeated.
On 26 January 1569, Mary was moved to Tutbury Castle and placed in the custody of the Earl of Shrewsbury and his formidable wife Bess of Hardwick.
The English king, Edward II, assembled a formidable force to relieve it.
After using his formidable artillery train to take Norham Castle he marched south, where the invasion was stopped decisively on 9 September 1513 at the Battle of Flodden.
With its formidable, in-yourface looks, this spacious, yet sophisticated, highly manoeuvrable and extremely comfortable truck has set the standard.
Veteran former Welsh international tighthead Jones remains a formidable scrummager, and is sure to be seeking to make a big impression on his Harlequins league debut.
George was removed from the beach by stretcher and ended up on a tank landing ship that, having unloaded its formidable cargo, began serving as a hospital ship.
Under such circumstances, it was not possible for Milch, Udet, or Kesselring to produce a formidable strategic bombing force even had they wanted to do so.
Wordsworth remained a formidable presence in his later years.
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Nicholas was a member of the European Solheim Cup team in 1990, 1992, 1994, 1996, 1998 and 2000 forming a formidable partnership with Laura Davies.
Despite this, his reputation abroad was formidable, and noble or learned foreigners who came to England never forgot to pay their respects to the old philosopher.
He soon showed himself to be a formidable tactician and leader.
For all the barriers placed to prosecution, and separating the branches of government, English law still had ancient and formidable customs of authority.
Although these challenges are formidable, the authors concluded that with long-term commitment and sustained effort, malaria radication could be achieved.
Early in the 3rd century Germanic peoples migrated south from Scandinavia and reached the Black Sea, creating formidable confederations which opposed the local Sarmatians.
With great clarity, she steadily and captivatingly unwinds the complicated threads of her narrative, explicating formidable scholarship while keeping the twins at the fore.
Fox-Genovese and Genovese treat the formidable champions of Slavery in the Abstract with deserved respect while frankly discussing their subjects' intellectual shortcomings.
A former Chesapeake Bay crabber who easily tossed around 100-pound, ice-laden crates of crustaceans in his youth, Kirk Bloodsworth remains a formidable physical presence.
Dalla Bennetta can act, has a formidable coloratura and a lovely legato line, but, more to the point, also has thrilling top notes and fortissimi.
At first glance it would seem difficult to fathom the rise of Nazism in a country that was long the source of formidable humanistic scholarship and scientific achievements.
The runner-up, Karan Takhar, a 14-year-old from East Providence, Rhode Island, put up a formidable challenge and fought Nathan to a sudden-death tiebreaker round.
The Cyprus Moufflons face a formidable opponent when they meet Lithuania at the Paphiacos Stadium in Paphos on Saturday in the European Rugby Nations Cup.
The four kings that followed Tullus continued the Roman tradition of endless war, with campaigns against formidable foes like the Veii, the Aequans and the Volscians.
And then there's the formidable nature of Helen Mirren's Dean Hardscrabble, a tough-talking leader with a face like a nibbled chocolate bourbon biscuit.
Herschelle Gibbs and Graeme Smith are formidable hitters and they have some good manoeuvrers like AB de Villiers and JP Duminy in the middle order.
Along the way we stopped by Muckross House in the breathtaking Killarney National Park, with the formidable Macgillycuddy's Reeks mountain range providing the backdrop.
Yes, Jenny, Wendi and Susie form a formidable triptych of crotchetiness.
According to extensive research conducted by Estee Lauder's formidable labs, exfoliation isn't necessarily the anti-ager it was previously thought to be.
The team, which will comprise three stayers, one puppy, one dog and a sprinter, looks quite formidable judged on what turned out to be a dramatic session.

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