Sentence examples for formidable agent from inspiring English sources

The party must take a strong, principled stand in favour of the European Union, the most formidable agent for peace, democracy and equality in the history of the continent.

For his part, Cap has had to work to get over his first impression of Tony as the egomaniacal spoiled brat son of his trusted old friend, the friend who gave him pointers on how to romance the lissome and very formidable Agent Peggy Carter back in the day.

She has been in work steadily, and in excellent, if not always huge, roles – an accomplished scientist in Contagion, a formidable CIA agent in Zero Dark Thirty.

Eight years ago, the Mets pursued a free-agent center fielder represented by Scott Boras, baseball's most formidable and unyielding agent.

Acquiring the ability to produce a potent enterotoxin, upon Tn5565 integration, thus created a formidable food poisoning agent.

Faulks risked giving up his day job and found one of the most formidable British literary agents, Gillon Aitken.

These receptor-specific opioid peptides act as more than mimics of endogenous opioids: their high selectivity for either the mu or delta receptor makes them formidable environmentally derived agents in the search for new antagonists for treating opiate addiction and in the treatment of a wide variety of human disorders.

Fortunately smallpox, like all biological agents, presents formidable obstacles to those who would try to make and disperse it as a weapon.

These are formidable challenges because antimicrobial agents are available from unsanctioned, as well as sanctioned, providers and the former may have little or no training and unorthodox means of drug distribution.

Dodging the thicket of blackout dates made the task look formidable until she found an agent as interested in making the trip work as she was.

The agents are a formidable constituency.