Sentence examples for formidable at first from inspiring English sources

The small size of samples in working with C. elegans represents a technical difficulty which seems to be quite formidable at first sight, especially when we have to handle L1 larvae.

Mrs. Clinton, who came into the race with a legendary and formidable fund-raising machine, at first relied almost exclusively on wealthy donors, who filled her campaign's coffers with contributions of the maximum $2,300 allowable for her primary bid.

The only way he could wrest power from the unions was by persuading them to use their block votes to that end, a more formidable task than he at first realised.

Our intent and hope in ordering the presentation this way is to allow the non-expert to appreciate the key ideas of the subject, without getting ensnarled in the at-first-glance formidable constructs which drive the generalizations.

His father, knowing the formidable gifts needed, was not at first encouraging, once telling an interviewer that his son's piano playing "was not particularly sensational", but that he wasn't bad at the drums (he played in a free-jazz group called the Nameless).

At first the technical barriers seemed formidable.

At first glance, the aEDT seems formidable to compute, since it appears to require searching over all continuous paths within the image domain.

Death, at first, seems no match for her formidable will and aggression.

Toward this end, Wasserman at first worked closely with Arthur Krim, the formidable president of United Artists.

He will replace Tino Martinez at first base and give the Yankees a formidable combination of power and patience.

At first analysis, these requirements look like a formidable challenge.