Sentence examples for a formidable movement from inspiring English sources

But the ephemera — the fascinating documentation and spirited newsletters — provide the exhibition's glue, presenting women not as anomalous achievers but as part of a formidable movement.

And within nine months, the new party, the Movement for Democratic Change, had united black union activists and white corporate executives, students and workers into a formidable movement that shook the political establishment.

Seeing a disparate group of everyday people come together and organize a formidable movement to challenge one of the most controversial corporations on the planet's role at the heart of our cultural lives seems like democracy alive, kicking and in action.

Seeing a disparate group of everyday people come together and organise a formidable movement to challenge one of the most controversial corporations on the planet's role at the heart of our cultural lives seems like democracy alive, kicking and in action.

A more formidable movement has been organized by a group of subscribers in Washington, D.C., who call themselves the Committee of Ten Million to Oppose All-Number Calling.

Some officials recall that the Soviet forces who invaded Afghanistan in December 1979 faced a similar pattern of poorly coordinated and clumsily executed attacks, but they note that it was not long before Moscow faced a formidable guerrilla movement.

No man has made himself more Israel's enemy in recent years than Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, the portly, bespectacled Shiite Muslim cleric who leads Hezbollah, the Lebanon-based, Iran-backed Party of God thas has evolved into a formidable guerrilla movement and political party from the umbrella organization that once directed the Middle East's most brutal Islamic terrorists.

In 1980, just as Ronald Reagan was riding his own formidable movement into power, Zinn published the thick volume that will remain his chief legacy.

Hong Kong has a formidable pro-democracy movement.

"The Tea Party came, during much of 2010, to be (misleadingly) portrayed as a formidable, independent political movement that threatened to overturn the two-party system," they write.

But La Via Campesina has not only survived – it has exploded, worldwide, into a formidable, farmer-led movement of organised opposition to "land grabs," the influence of corporations on food systems and agricultural policies, the rise of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and free-trade agreements.