Sentence examples for a fearsome combination from inspiring English sources

When my father knew me, he seems to have been both confused and very sure of himself, a fearsome combination.

It was the Australian's fourth league goal in five games and the Englishman's seventh in eight and they are turning into a fearsome combination.

For a stretch of the 1980's, Al Jourgenson's band Ministry was a fearsome combination of industrial rhythm, powerhouse guitars and transgressive lyrics; ever since, it has struggled not to be a self-parody.

The longer answer is that the internet, supermarkets and a squeeze on living standards represent a fearsome combination for specialist business models that are, let's face it, past their sell-by date in many cases.

Pragmatism in response to a fearsome combination of events was to be the hallmark of Healey's chancellorship, learning economics (he had studied classics) on the job to dominate the Treasury mandarins with a mixture of "excitement and fear".

In Italy, where the phenomenon is perhaps most acute, it reflects a fearsome combination of forces as the four-year-old economic crisis meets the steady fraying of the social safety net and the slow-motion implosion of the Italian family.

For most of the five seasons before this one, Ortiz and Manny Ramírez formed October's most fearsome combination — a classic lefty-righty duo that pummeled its way to two World Series titles.

The 2003 explosion owed its intensity to the fearsome combination of SARS, a serious form of pneumonia that appeared that year, a housing bust, knock-on effects in the local economy and a sense that Mr Tung was too incompetent to cope with it all.

They are a fearsome winning combination.

Like many capital cases, Elmore's was shaped by the fearsome combination of race and class.

Although Raines was overshadowed by the similar and greater Rickey Henderson, his fearsome combination of raw speed and impeccable judgment made it virtually impossible to keep him on first base.