With greater striking power available, armour-piercing projectiles became more formidable.
If you got rich you could upgrade your ship with better weapons and defence systems, and as you did that, you became more formidable in battle, increasing your rank.
Google is hoping that Microsoft's past will hamper its effort to become more formidable in the online business.
Once the top carrier in the United States, American has been overtaken by those rivals, which both used mergers in recent years to become more formidable competitors.
It didn't take long for Cano to start chirping about how the Mariners needed a right-handed bat in their lineup for it to become more formidable and balanced.
Intel is absolutely a player to be reckoned with in the autonomous driving space, and I think they're only going to become more formidable as time goes on.
Nevertheless, rather than growing weaker, she seems to have become more formidable.
Even though Mrs. Clinton lags behind in the pledged delegate count, over these last few weeks, "rather than growing weaker, she seems to have become more formidable," writes Elizabeth Kolbert in the latest New Yorker.
Several baseball executives said that the top three A.L. East teams are more superior now than they were at the end of the season and that the Orioles, who signed the free-agent shortstop Miguel Tejada to a six-year, $72 million contract on Sunday, and are trying to sign outfielder Vladimir Guerrero and catchers Ivan Rodriguez or Javy Lopez, could become more formidable.
Another possibility is that the decline in the per-cell probability of spread is the result of the simple geometrical constraints posed to the escape of cells from the primary mass (Padera et al, 2002), which become more formidable as tumours increase in size.
