The BayStars of 1998 were close to the ideal for Gondo, with five solid starters, six long relievers, and a formidable short reliever, Kazuhiro Sasaki, whose record of 1 win, 1 loss, 45 saves, and an earned run average of 0.64 eventually earned him the vote as the Central League's Most Valuable Player.
It emphasized the formidable short-sightedness of our views.
Nigeria's militant Islamist group Ansaru has proved to be a formidable threat during its short existence, using dynamite to penetrate heavily-fortified compounds and taking foreigners hostage - seven of whom it said it had killed on Saturday.
BBC Points West's Alistair Durden: "Somerset are still a formidable force in the short form of the game and this is the fourth season in a row they've made it to finals day, finishing as runners-up in the last three years.
Nonetheless India, who got the better of England by 11 runs in their warm-up fixture and who finished top of their group after beating the tournament favourite, Australia, on Saturday, pose a formidable threat in the shorter format, especially with the bat.
I wouldn't deny that the company, known as Third World Bunfight, performs with great verve or that Sello Sebotsane, gradually stripping down to boxing shorts, is a formidable presence as the towering, sweating, paranoid Amin.
This time, she is fierce and ambitious, a formidable woman in a show not short of them.
In a career spanning decades, Dunmore has tackled children's books, poetry, short stories and a formidable range of novels covering ghostly romances, Russian sieges and familial abandonment.
Halfway through "The Great Game: Afghanistan" — the Tricycle Theater's formidable seven-hour cycle of short plays about a formidable country — a British writer finds herself alone with Najibullah, the deposed Afghan president, now under house arrest in Kabul in 1996.
Although he has directed only one other feature and a few shorts, Abreu set a formidable challenge for himself when he decided to present a feature-length story entirely in mime.
The short-handed Bulls posed a formidable and physical test.
