Sentence examples for a formidable local from inspiring English sources

As the Times of India points out, its cows will ruminate less than 100 miles from the headquarters of a formidable local producer the Gujarat Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation, otherwise known as Amul.

After that, under Fazluddin Agha, a formidable local governor, security improved, and foreign money has been poured into opening schools and clinics.Mr Agha was killed by a suicide-bomber in January, but his influence may help explain the relatively restrained reaction in Panjwai itself to the atrocity.

But although she currently cuts a sympathetic figure, that might change fast were her role in the less savoury bits of her husband's career to get a no-holds-barred public airing.And Mrs Clinton would probably be running against a formidable local opponent, Rudolph Giuliani, New York's mayor since 1994.

Gertrude Robinson Smith, a formidable local philanthropist who campaigned for women's welfare and reportedly threw a mean curveball, was the festival's leading patron, and when the Philharmonic lost interest Smith turned instead to Koussevitzky, who seized on her notion that the enterprise could become an American version of the Salzburg Festival.

Nevertheless, Tencent is a formidable local competitor to social-network sites like MySpace in China, which is already the largest Internet market in the world and still growing rapidly.

I was challenging the students in this course - on this expedition, to recognize that each of them was already a formidable local guide.

Of course, I'd also hasten to add that TechStars London already has a pretty formidable local competitor in the form of Seedcamp, which has arguably been holding its own in London, Europe (and elsewhere).

They credited the Liberal Democrats' apparently strong showing after months of disarray to its still formidable local vote-gathering ability, though the gains also reflected a protest vote against the Democrats.

But foreign firms face far more formidable local competitors than they did then.

The party's formidable local organisation has faltered after internal feuds that led to the departure of dedicated envelope-stuffers.

Many Afghans fear that NATO has lost the will to control the militias, and that the warlords are reëmerging as formidable local forces.