"You are a formidable couple.
The constant fear was that some of the technical demands of the shorter forms, the extravagances, might not sit kindly with those virtues of self-denial away from the constraints of time, that have made him such a formidable Test match batsman.
In the six months since she entered the Senate race, Mrs. Clinton has molded herself into a formidable candidate, matching Mr. Giuliani in the polls even before a combination of health and marital problems put his candidacy in doubt.
Happy Moscow Andrey Platonov Harvill £9.99, pp154 Acclaimed by Joseph Brodsky as one of the great Russian writers of the twentieth century, Andrey Platonov comes with a formidable reputation, matched only by his relative obscurity.
Wrote Kmoch, "The following game, a stunning masterpiece of combination play performed by a boy of 13 against a formidable opponent, matches the finest on record in the history of chess prodigies".
It is a formidable task, matched by a formidable line-up of participants.
LONDON — Going for broke in the Champions League can inspire an athlete, like Didier Drogba, to the absolute limits of his formidable match-winning powers.
But Ms. LuPone has a formidable will to match Momma Rose's.
As predicted on these pages this morning, England have posted a formidable and potentially match-winning total.
