She was a great talker, in inimitable staccato, rapid, hushed tones, and loved food and good wine, on which she was a formidable expert.
Over the next several decades, Ms. Lopez, who died Dec. 28 at her home in New Haven at 92, would rise to become editor in chief of the collection and a formidable expert on Franklin.
In a Clarion-Collegium seminar at Park Avenue Christian on Thursday evening, Andrew Parrott, the music director of the New York Collegium and a formidable expert on the work, speculated that it had been intended as a sort of "do-it-yourself Vespers kit" for directors of church choirs.
Sent into Sangin, Afghanistan's opium-producing heartland, in 2010, the battalion faced a formidable enemy expert in the use of I.E.D.'s., losing 25 Marines in a seven-month tour, the second most of any American unit in the entire war, a Times analysis shows.
Building civil cases around C.D.O.'s, let alone criminal ones, will be a formidable challenge, legal experts said.
But reviving the Iraqi oil industry, under the scrutiny of a skeptical world and the Iraqis themselves, will be a formidable task, industry experts said.
[Page A1.] The federal government has mustered a formidable roster of experts to back up its Microsoft proposal, but its plan to break up an American symbol of technological excellence and wealth creation is a drastic step that enters uncharted territory.
Five years later, Ms. Lipstadt, a professor of Modern Jewish and Holocaust Studies at Emory University in Atlanta, won a drawn-out court case along with her publisher, Penguin Books, but only after spending more than $3 million and enlisting a formidable army of experts who had to prove that what she had said about Mr. Irving was true.
All those unique adaptations added up to make T. carnifex a formidable ambush predator and expert climber, with gripping skills similar to a koala.
This would make him a formidable candidate in an Experts Assembly election that is shaping up as broad battle between, on one side, candidates including Rafsanjani and Rouhani, and on the other side fundamentalists including Mesbah-Yazdi, Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati, the head of the Guardian Council and Ayatollah Mohammad Yazdi, the current chairman of the assembly.
Those already familiar with Williams' gifts will know a set-piece expert with a formidable record from the penalty spot.
