Sentence examples for a formidable apparatus from inspiring English sources
The centre of power to some extent shifted into the emperor's personal chancery, which was built up into a formidable apparatus.
The state that is building such a formidable apparatus of surveillance will do its best to prevent journalists from reporting on it.
On this evidence, Rogers has a central role in a formidable apparatus of authority and capital – the old power of the Lords, the governmental power of quangos and government departments, the money power of property and real estate.
Nonconformity of opinion is treated as the equivalent of resistance or opposition to the government, and a formidable apparatus of compulsion, including various kinds of state police or secret police, is kept in being to enforce the orthodoxy of the proclaimed doctrines of the state.
"The state that is building such a formidable apparatus of surveillance will do its best to prevent journalists from reporting on it," Rusbridger wrote, adding: "At least reporters now know to stay away from Heathrow transit lounges".
Assassinations of Iraqi government officials, including senior security officials, and ambushes of security forces reveal a formidable intelligence apparatus.
One way to do that is to put together a formidable campaign apparatus and a big war chest.
Everything was held precariously together by the person of the monarch, a formidable legal apparatus and a complex system of conciliar administration.
From a cold start just four years ago, Microsoft assembled a formidable lobbying apparatus that worked to touch anyone who could have any influence over the antitrust case against it -- particularly, during last year's election campaign, Republican candidates, including George W. Bush.
They have a formidable advocacy apparatus in Washington in NIAC in particular, one that is sympathetic to Iranian society and opposed to war and draconian sanctions.
Before mass protests ended his autocratic rule, Mubarak maintained power -- even in the face of economic weakness and social ferment -- by relying on a formidable security apparatus to crush any hint of opposition.
