Sentence examples for an array of formidable from inspiring English sources

Efforts to restrict proprietary trading will run up against an array of formidable forces.

Should General Myers get the job, he would assume leadership of the military at a tense time and confront an array of formidable challenges, including the bitterness among many Pentagon officials and others in the armed forces over Mr. Rumsfeld's managerial style, which some have called heavy-handed.

Obstructing schemes that seek to grow are an array of formidable barriers: the difficulties of accessing investment; the inward-looking culture of some areas that dismisses the potential of services developed elsewhere; and risk aversion, along with some short-sightedness among commissioners.

In the past Iran has found clever ways to circumvent an array of less formidable sanctions.

An engaging re-creation of Mr. Jones's own work space includes an array of hat blocks and two formidable hatlike devices for measuring head shapes.

It's not to everyone's taste, especially as he combines the irony with a formidable learning, an array of intimidating references (Adorno, Nietzsche, Walter Benjamin), and is capable of a witheringly dismissive tone in person every bit as much as on the page.

To the north of this engagement, the trapped Pompée and Hannibal were under heavy fire from the anchored Formidable and an array of Spanish batteries and gunboats, both ships taking severe damage without being able to effectively reply as their main broadsides now faced away from the enemy.

To determine the heat exchange between an animal and its environment, however, a physiological ecologist is confronted with an array of almost unquantifiable variables and with the formidable task of gathering the numerous data and analyzing them.

Atop this, an array of 62 watchtowers, jutting out at regular intervals, formed a formidable line of defence.

This is the first election with a formidable opposition, Castro's Free Party, along with an array of smaller groups, all fielding hundreds of candidates for the legislature and city halls.

The coalition includes an array of Sunni and secular parties and is widely seen as the most formidable challenger to Mr. Maliki's bloc and a second, largely Shiite, alliance.