Sentence examples for a formidable ally from inspiring English sources

Revitalised, it could be a formidable ally".

Even Democrats describe him as a formidable ally -- when they are not at odds with him.

King Juan Carlos is described as "a formidable ally where Spanish and US interests coincide".

The battle for posterity is far from over, and Hirschman has a formidable ally in Adelman, a Princeton historian who knows how to construct a narrative.

For Ban Ki-Moon, the UN secretary-general, the pope has proved a formidable ally in the faltering efforts to reach a deal to fight climate change.

They have a formidable ally in nonprofit institutions that fear new limits on their ability to transfer development rights, known as air rights, or to build what the law calls "community facilities": schools, hospitals, medical offices, nursing homes and houses of worship.

He will seek to transform the state's weak business lobby into a more formidable ally, believing that corporate leaders in New York have virtually surrendered the field to big labor.

But at a meeting on May 23rd with Alex Salmond, Scotland's nationalist first minister, he discovered that the industry now has a formidable political ally.Mr Salmond, an oil economist before he entered politics, is as concerned as any energy firm that production and profits might be clobbered.

Ua Briain was certainly a formidable potential ally, having recently imposed his dominance over the kingdoms of Connacht, Leinster, Mide, and Dublin as well.

The online haters have formidable allies amplifying their tirades to a potential worldwide audience of 900 million: Google, Yahoo and Microsoft…Google and other services operate with government-sanctioned impunity, protected from any liability for anything posted on the blogs they host.

These groups will be formidable allies for Mr. Romney's campaign.