Sentence examples for a formidable engine of from inspiring English sources

Calling the world's wealth of health data a formidable "engine of discovery," the National Institutes of Health on Thursday awarded $32 million in grants in a bid to make huge biomedical data sets accessible to researchers the world over.

It may be recalled that when orders were placed for the ships ... there was much speculation as to the destiny of the vessels, as no naval expert could understand how a second-rate power like Brazil needed such formidable engines of war which would represent absolutely the latest stages of naval construction and armament.

When the clergy engraft themselves into the "machine of government", they prove a "very formidable engine against the civil and religious rights of man" (TJ to Jeremiah Moor, 14 Aug. 1800).

Girls Aloud are still a formidable pop engine – 10 legs and a beat – with a natural sense of economy, which extends to their emotions on stage.

Gillis: Google has the benefit of having a substantial consumer brand and a formidable marketing engine.

By buying Honeywell, GE adds a strong capability in avionics to its already formidable engine-building platform.

Hers was a formidable achievement of intellect and will.

Iraq had a formidable arsenal of chemical weapons.

This book is a formidable labor of six years.

It is also a formidable collection of talent.

Even so, the shoot faced a formidable set of restrictions.