Sentence examples for formidable authority from inspiring English sources

Don Miguel has a formidable authority when he speaks.

He is playing with formidable authority once again.

The Lancelots were a family of epicures, and Stuart was a formidable authority on French cuisine.

The best of his last time in office was when President Boris Yeltsin gave reformers such as Anatoly Chubais their head, and backed them with the presidency's then formidable authority.

But long before the Berlin Wall fell, he told the British left that socialism was dead and put his formidable authority behind the movement that led eventually to Tony Blair.

Mussorgsky's unremitting meditation on mortality, meanwhile, was simply outstanding, its seductive morbidity and nihilistic violence all the more chilling for being delivered with such beauty of tone and formidable authority.

His style was that of a statesman combining intimacy with a formidable presence and authority.

It's formidable how much authority is borne by a bowler.

On this evidence, Rogers has a central role in a formidable apparatus of authority and capital – the old power of the Lords, the governmental power of quangos and government departments, the money power of property and real estate.

For all the barriers placed to prosecution, and separating the branches of government, English law still had ancient and formidable customs of authority.

Lord Hope said that there was "a formidable body of authority which should not be lightly disregarded" in favour of the immunity.