Sentence examples for formidable and complex from inspiring English sources

What strikes you is that while these films are about tough guys, they are even more about formidable and complex women.

Managing Britain's exit from the European Union is such a formidable and complex challenge that it could overwhelm politicians and civil servants for years, senior academics have warned.

The strain faced by a ship on a whole constitutes probably the most formidable and complex of all structural engineering problems in two aspects: the determination of the loading, and the response of the structure.

The challenges are formidable and complex, but with concerted action on many fronts, progress is possible.

Although there are many encouraging trends, the challenges are formidable and complex, and observers active in the field understand that their campaign will be long, with no assurance of victory.

WASHINGTON — The federal prosecutor who will conduct the inquiry into the brutal interrogations of terror detainees faces formidable legal hurdles and complex political dynamics that make prosecutions far from certain.

Prisoner uprisings on Rikers Island, a sprawling and formidable complex in the East River, have erupted periodically over the years, then receded, only to surge again.

"The subject is so daunting and complex, it is almost too formidable to have been done," he said.

Frito-Lay had a formidable research complex near Dallas, where nearly 500 chemists, psychologists and technicians conducted research that cost up to $30 million a year, and the science corps focused intense amounts of resources on questions of crunch, mouth feel and aroma for each of these items.

It is simply the formidable magnitude of the terrorist threat that seems now to loom over all free, open and complex democracies.

It is easy to envisage long and complex chains of causation ramifying through trophic levels, but documenting such changes poses a formidable logistical challenge.