Sentence examples for a formidable incentive from inspiring English sources

Some ninety-five per cent of criminal cases in the U.S. are decided by plea bargains — the risk of being convicted of a more serious offense and getting a much longer sentence is a formidable incentive — and so prosecutors can determine another man's crime and punishment while scarcely setting foot in a courtroom.

She has the trappings of a formidable athlete (and now, incentive to put off college to heighten her training); she moves around the table with the bounce of nervous ambition.

"He's a formidable candidate".

That was a formidable problem.

"You are a formidable couple.

They made a formidable team.

"It was a formidable assignment".

He is a formidable networker.

He is a formidable campaigner.

A formidable task.

A formidable historical novel.