Sentence examples for To be formidable from inspiring English sources

Regulatory thickets, technical complexity and the public's skittishness have proven to be formidable hurdles.

Fearless but always polite, they have proved to be formidable opponents.

And several times, the scientists take what to the untrained eye seem to be formidable leaps.

The Chinese competitors, including some who have already run the course, are known to be formidable.

Sevilla used to be formidable in its Sánchez Pizjuán stadium, but has lost two of its last three games there.

The Taliban fighting forces -- Afghans reinforced by volunteers from elsewhere in the Islamic world -- were said to be formidable.

But the road to sainthood can be formidable, even with the revisions.

If those rivals are "Republicans who appeal to moderates, they will be formidable".

The political obstacles to compromise are formidable.

The barriers to expansion are formidable, however.

The obstacles to peace are formidable.