Sentence examples for formidable businessman from inspiring English sources

He, indeed, is a formidable businessman in his country as chairman of the board of Saudi Research and Marketing, which has about 30 publications, including newsweeklies, women's magazines and Asharq Al Awsat, a daily published in London that is perhaps the most prominent English-language newspaper in the Arab world.

Perot is back at the helm of Perot Systems, the ten-year-old computer services company that was supposed to trounce his first success, Electronic Data Systems EDSS), the pioneering data processing giant that made him one of America's most formidable businessmen.

Now the company hopes to complete the restoration under the leadership of Carl-Henric Svanberg, a formidable Swedish businessman who joined the company last April as chief executive.

He was one of the first to patent the genetics of the soybean in the early 1990s and, as a savvy businessman and formidable negotiator, landed lucrative deals licensing the genetics to industry heavyweights like Monsanto and DuPont.

This time around, Democratic Santa Barbara County Supervisor Salud Carbajal and 27-year-old Republican businessman Justin Fareed are building formidable war chests, hoping to make it out of the top-two primary on June 7.

The protesters are a minority that cannot win through elections, but they comprise a formidable alliance of opposition leaders, royalists, and businessmen who have set their sights on ousting the government.

Confident but modest, outspoken though not brash, knowledgeable without knowing-it-all, American businessmen – in all sorts of industries – are formidable, even intimidating, operators.

Businessman, author, journalist, politician, and the bearer of a formidable family name, Riccardo Illy has held a number of posts within the global and local business and political communities.

Dongguan has formidable advantages as a place to do business, as Frank Jaeger, a German businessman, can attest.

But as the region's own businessmen know to their cost, consolidation in the logistics business is creating formidable competition.

Maybe Republicans could be more open to a Hail Mary in a race against the formidable Mr. Blumenthal than the vulnerable Mr. Dodd, opening the door a bit for Peter Schiff, the conservative businessman and author who comes closest to capturing the anti-tax, anti-government Tea Party sensibility.