Sentence examples for as a formidable force from inspiring English sources

Lotto shows him as a formidable force, brave enough to survive their assassination attempts: the Renaissance equivalent of today's courageous anti-mafia lawyers.

The Bass family of Texas, for instance, has emerged as a formidable force within the company after reporting that it owns 11.4percentt of the stock.

It was a breakthrough Ashes win under the captaincy of Michael Clarke and restored Australia's reputation as a formidable force at home.

The Sunni militia's extremist views, tactics and calls for an Islamic state have put it at odds with some in the Free Syrian Army, but it has also proven itself as a formidable force in multiple actions.

Embarrassed after their fight with modernists in the mid-1920s, evangelical Protestants withdrew from public engagement, built their own impressive church and educational networks, and re-emerged in the 1970s as a formidable force on the political right.

His decision helped to isolate the new regime, which, whatever its faults, had rescued Cambodia from a time of horror, and also contributed to the survival of the Khmer Rouge as a formidable force.

The three systems have outgrown the intentions of the Master Plan, and they are in dire need of a board that can unify their efforts as well as represent a formidable force at the state-level.

But as long as the guerrillas were a formidable force, backed by North Vietnamese bases and garrisons in Cam bodia and Laos, the policy makers and military chiefs here doubted that Saigon could hold its own in an imperfectly controlled standstill.

To the Editor: The companies that manufacture and market baby formula are a formidable force: Samples abound as soon as you walk through an OB's door, and free formula is given to pregnant women enrolled in nutrition-boosting programs.

Women are a formidable force, as I have seen in my own family -- (laughter and applause) -- and my own administration.

Perhaps McNamara's biggest gamble so far has been the selection of Kevin Sinfield and Rangi Chase as half-backs for the tournament, yet the pair combined to great effect against Fiji and showed signs that they could become a formidable force as the World Cup continues.