"formidable background" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is used to describe someone with a thorough and impressive experience or history, usually in their career. Example: "With his formidable background in finance, John is the perfect person to lead the company's expansion."
It may be unintended, but the message is clear – the new prisons watchdog comes with a formidable background in investigation.
"The last question that the scholarship interview committee asked me was: 'You have a formidable background, and opportunities abroad.
His formidable background includes Capitol Hill and politics, Federal and state government, law and business, think tanks and philanthropy.
Emilio Alvarez, General Secretary of The Inter-American Human Rights CoMexicann, is a Mexican with a formidable background in human rights advocacy.
Hillary Clinton, with a formidable background as a lawyer, First Lady, Senator and Secretary of State, seems to be fighting an uphill battle of an email debacle and the fact that she is a woman running for President.
With such a formidable background he was uniquely positioned to transcend the boundaries of the four different sciences, cultures and intellectual worlds of Mathematics, Statistics, Biology and Medicine.
With this formidable fashion background, I was expecting Katie Grand to be, well, grand, or at least terrifyingly glossy.
They have built up formidable teams with varied backgrounds to draft policies that take into account an ever-changing internet.
Mr. Williams, 49, has the makings of a formidable challenger given his political background with two presidents.
As he notes, the Americans attracted to jihad in recent years are generally far less formidable — amateurs with no military background, few technical skills and scant knowledge of Islam, though there are exceptions.
The game was originally meant to have more scenes depicting Zack and Cloud's flight to Midgar, so as to expand on their friendship and unrealized plans, but these scenes were removed due to UMD limitations, and so the staff focused more on Zack's background as a formidable warrior.
