Baath!" Many new soldiers, and most officers, are veterans of the Hussein-era army, and American officers believe they could become a formidable force.
Overnight, Shivaji had become a formidable warlord, possessing the horses, the guns, and the ammunition of the Bijapur army.
8. (7:56)—Soft strings and high voice crescendo gradually and become a formidable polyphonic drone.
But the fighting over the past five months has shown that Isis has become a formidable military force.
If it extends that experiment, it could become a formidable competitor.
Since setting the Guinness record, she has become a formidable endurance athlete.
If Democrats do succeed this fall, Mr. Rangel would become a formidable player on Capitol Hill.
But what could have been a cakewalk for Woods has become a formidable challenge.
And after sending Bush out of Iraq in ignominy he has become a formidable national hero.
Ms. Tenenbaum, the state education chief, had surged to become a formidable opponent.
