Sentence examples for a formidable strain from inspiring English sources

Written in 1975 — the year Mr. Rands relocated to America — this nine-minute piece represents a formidable strain of high modernism, expressed in leaping intervals and tumultuous rhythmic bursts.

Experts knew back in March that a new, potentially formidable strain of the virus was circulating, yet practical difficulties forced them to stick with an obsolescent vaccine rather than press for a better formulation.

A truly formidable novel strain of influenza (H1N1) is spreading worldwide, creating an above-average spike in seasonal illness, the genuine possibility of a global influenza pandemic, and an alarmed public bombarded with opposing facts and mixed messages.

Cyanobacteria present a formidable challenge for water management industries, due to toxic and non-toxic strains often being closely related and frequently indistinguishable using traditional taxonomic approaches.

However, because there are so many disease-causing strains of GBS, developing a widely effective vaccine has been a formidable challenge.

Identifying which bacteria are critical and which are bystanders, which strains affect which behaviors, by which pathways, in whom and when, is a formidable task.

"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".