Sentence examples for a formidable authority from inspiring English sources

Don Miguel has a formidable authority when he speaks.

The Lancelots were a family of epicures, and Stuart was a formidable authority on French cuisine.

As a man who is as well known for his perpetually tanned skin as he is for his lengthy acting career, George Hamilton is a formidable authority on the art of the suntan.

As a retired San Francisco advertising executive, McCrea probably knew less about wine than most of today's neophyte buffs but by the time of his death in 1977, he was considered a formidable authority on California Chardonnay.

She passed General Hamid Gul, a key Zia lieutenant and a committed Islamist, who had assumed formidable authority during the Afghan war, as the dispenser of C.I.A. arms; he and his predecessor had also politicized the I.S.I. as it had never been politicized before.

He is playing with formidable authority once again.

The best of his last time in office was when President Boris Yeltsin gave reformers such as Anatoly Chubais their head, and backed them with the presidency's then formidable authority.

But long before the Berlin Wall fell, he told the British left that socialism was dead and put his formidable authority behind the movement that led eventually to Tony Blair.

Mussorgsky's unremitting meditation on mortality, meanwhile, was simply outstanding, its seductive morbidity and nihilistic violence all the more chilling for being delivered with such beauty of tone and formidable authority.

She won increasing regard for her negotiating skills and formidable authority in representing union members in disputed industrial cases, despite her lack of formal qualifications, and she always credited the labour movement for having provided her with the chance to extend her education.

His style was that of a statesman combining intimacy with a formidable presence and authority.