Sentence examples for formidable base from inspiring English sources

"He starts with a pretty formidable base," said Brad Lawrence, a Menendez adviser.

In the two years since leaving Sudan, Mr. bin Laden had built a formidable base in Afghanistan.

This formidable base had been bombed into rubble, and now the Navy had decided that the main airstrip should be rebuilt, along with a basic military camp.

Instead of using its formidable base in selling traditional books to build up a similar position with second-hand books, it purchased the biggest existing seller of second-hand books on the internet, Abebooks.com.com

Their numbers in California are huge — estimated to be between one-fifth and one-third of the Democratic electorate — and would have instantly provided Villaraigosa with a formidable base.

The attacks in Najaf were accompanied by bombing raids in the Sunni stronghold of Falluja and the boldest American offensive in months in Sadr City, where Mr. Sadr's appeals to poor Shiites, and his recurrent insurrections against the Americans, have given him a formidable base.

But since he was "severely admonished" by his Senate colleagues in July, his once-formidable base has turned spongy enough that two polls released this week show Mr. Forrester with a slight lead among likely voters and an unusually high percentage of Democrats wavering.

They have financial muscle, can make substantial investments in shows, and have a formidable Hollywood base and international distribution system.

Accustomed to using great leverage over union, corporate and political opponents, Mr. Black, 55, operates from a formidable power base.

Marty claimed that Thaci and the Drenica group, which included Fatmir Limaj, had built a "formidable power base in the organized criminal enterprises" in the late nineties, and had exerted "violent control" over the heroin trade in the region.

That report referred to a "volatile mix of rising and declining regional powers" in Asia, with the possibility that "a military competitor with a formidable resource base will emerge".