Its formidable house band, the Bang on a Can AllStars, performs music by Michael Gordon, Julia Wolfe, David Lang, and others, in a celebratory concert at Alice Tully Hall.
The congressman also set up a formidable in-house research operation of about 15 people to study the candidates, the districts and the issues and be ready to strike at Republicans when the moment arose.
Industry insiders say Slimane and Simons, working at two of the most formidable houses, are likely to usher in a new era of fashion.
But before it was a wildlife mecca, this 24sqkm volcanic island served as a formidable fortress that housed Colombia's most violent criminals, with stone walls, barbed wire and prison guards acting as only the first line of defence.
There followed gut renovation of the main house, a formidable undertaking that cost $250,000 and involved, among many tasks, the removal of many Dumpsters' worth of trash.
The only serious blow to Welsh Labour's election night equilibrium came in Rhondda, a totemic heartland seat housing a formidable Labour constituency operation that nonetheless fell to Plaid leader Leanne Wood's determined assault.
The restaurant is housed in a formidable white stone structure.
The Ocean House alone was a formidable undertaking for Mr. Royce, who runs Royce & Associates, a mutual fund company in Manhattan.
Escada is to German fashion roughly what St. John Knits is to Americans -- important advertisers and a formidable retail force, but hardly a house to make editors' antennas quiver.
(He also employs his haunted-house dexterity in a formidable sequence with a giant spider).
