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Certainly, Bird's presence bolsters Connecticut's already formidable bid for its second national championship.
If he runs, he could pose a formidable challenge to Clinton's bid for the nomination.
For a long time the company had a formidable "win rate", securing 70% of the contracts it bid for.
He has no further political ambitions — like announcing his own bid for governor — and can instead focus on the urgent and formidable challenge of helping to fix New York's state government, in particular its dangerously dysfunctional Senate.
When Icahn initially made a takeover bid for CVR Energy, in February , 2012 the company hired Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, the formidable New York law firm, to deflect him.
Gove praised his "formidable" leadership rivals – Theresa May and Andrea Leadsom – minutes after crashing out of the race on Thursday, after his late bid for No 10 against former ally Boris Johnson proved lethal for both men.
The union of two smaller rivals into a more formidable competitor comes after an earlier setback last fall, when Anglo American lost out to Rio Tinto in a hostile bid for North, an Australian mining company.
Michael Portillo, though potentially formidable, returned to active politics after losing his seat in 1997 with the fire in his belly evidently extinguished, a fact confirmed by his strangely querulous bid for the leadership.
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