As she prepared to skate, she was both formidable and childlike, blowing her nose, scratching her thighs.
But his admission that for years he operated a system of secret accounts to handle undeclared cash donations to his party has dealt a heavy blow to his formidable reputation.
The holocaust was a blow to its formidable middle class.
England took a couple of early blows but were formidable in their seizure of power.
If that were allowed to happen, or Greece were permitted to split from the 16-member single currency zone, speculators' attention would soon turn to much larger states with formidable public deficits, including Spain, Portugal and Ireland, potentially blowing the euro project apart.
The lawyers want the blow-by-blow of my forensic triumph over the formidable foe; when I tell them it wasn't like that, they insist that it was.
They hit Formidable with two 500 kg bombs and blew the bow off her escorting destroyer.
He experimented with how to foster the regrowth of native plants and, in the end, twisted and shaped some holes in new directions, a reformatting that turned a formidable course into a frightening one when the wind blew.
Fortresses were becoming obsolete, but they could still be formidable; gunnery was developing, but the bombards quite often blew up, and anyway needed teams of experts and logistical support.
Rubio continued to prove a formidable presence, earning the endorsement of South Carolina's governor, Nikki Haley, in a blow to Bush's campaign.
