Sentence examples for formidable build from inspiring English sources

It is not as if she has an especially formidable build.

Gehrig brought along his mother, who was memorably described by her future daughter-in-law as "formidable, built something like a lady wrestler, with yellowish-grey hair snatched back in a bun".

The mission was formidable: to build a new generation of leaders for Peru.

Outside the formidable fortress built by the occupying forces it is a place of random terror.

This formidable fortress – built by French colonialists – was used to hold captured airmen, who nicknamed it the "Hanoi Hilton".

In a contest of image, perception and power, the rebellion pits those disenfranchised by Mr. Mubarak's government against a still formidable array built around the military and security apparatus and a fabulously wealthy clique enriched by connections with the governing party.

"It's a formidable challenge to build under a building," says Rodney Gibble, a Manhattan-based structural engineer who says he's working on a growing number of basement expansions with swimming pools, gyms and small basketball courts.

But it is also tiny in that particular way that poverty and extreme racial isolation build formidable, and virtually unscalable, walls.

But in 2008, ISRO translated its formidable capability to build and launch satellites toward exploration and send a probe to the Moon, Chandrayaan-1.

We must build formidable coalitions.

In some cases, tribes with lucrative casinos are beginning to build formidable museums of their own, sidestepping powerhouse universities and public showcases such as the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County and the Autry Museum of the American West.