"He starts with a pretty formidable base," said Brad Lawrence, a Menendez adviser.
They have financial muscle, can make substantial investments in shows, and have a formidable Hollywood base and international distribution system.
Accustomed to using great leverage over union, corporate and political opponents, Mr. Black, 55, operates from a formidable power base.
That report referred to a "volatile mix of rising and declining regional powers" in Asia, with the possibility that "a military competitor with a formidable resource base will emerge".
The two -- he's cool-headed, she's impulsive, a trait she said she gets from her estranged father, a personal-injury lawyer -- have built a formidable fan base by emphasizing her softer, empathetic side.
Marty claimed that Thaci and the Drenica group, which included Fatmir Limaj, had built a "formidable power base in the organized criminal enterprises" in the late nineties, and had exerted "violent control" over the heroin trade in the region.
Before, Mr. Msika and the other vice president, Joyce Mujuru, had the responsibilities now delegated to Mr. Tsvangirai, 56, a charismatic former trade union leader who has built a formidable political base as Mr. Mugabe's persistent rival.
Products such as Sharepoint, and companies like Salesforce have a marked advantage as they provide similar collaboration tools as well as having a formidable user base.
And as we pointed out in a recent cover story ("The Killer Ad Machine" Dec. 11, 2000), the free portal has a formidable user base and can target ads to select audiences with scary accuracy.
