His satirical song poems were a formidable arm against enemies, and his poems of praise enhanced the prestige of his tribe.
Qusayr sits on the main road leading into Lebanon's Beqaa Valley, Hezbollah's stronghold, and serves as the main conduit for Iranian arms and missiles that have made Hezbollah the formidable armed group that it is.
And the United States' onetime leverage of a formidable nuclear arms supply became a liability in dealing with smaller countries seeking nuclear leverage of their own.
Yes armed with a camera -- and Mary, a formidable weapon in her own right.
They filed into the recording studio, ten formidable ladies armed with trombones and trumpets, plus a sousaphone, a saxophone, and some drums.
But few...have any inkling of the ceaseless battle which goes on...against nature, a formidable adversary with arms of incal-culable diversity and resource, on the one hand, and against the wear and tear of people on the other...On a glorious June day it is easy to be persuaded that we are holding the fort, even winning.
His title takes a playful poke at the formidable literary critic, armed to the teeth with his somber syllabuses and burgeoning jargon.
Frundsberg is often called the "father of the Landsknechte" because he played a prominent part in the organization of that formidable mercenary infantry, armed with pike and sword, which became Maximilian's most powerful striking force.
He is a ferocious defender, moving with dangerous purpose and power and menacing his opponents with a formidable combination of threatening arms, body and attitude.
This was a combination that for years had proved itself invincible against a counterforce of scientists and public-health and public-interest advocates who, armed with formidable statistics on the damage to health and life caused by cigarette smoking, had sought to protect consumers by requiring all cigarette advertising to provide adequate warnings of these dangers.
