Sentence examples for formidable cabinet from inspiring English sources

His evident ability won him appointment from 1956 to 1958 as private secretary to the formidable cabinet secretary of the day, Sir Norman Brook.

Margaret Thatcher was at her most successful when she worked well with her formidable cabinet secretary, Robert Armstrong, whom she learned to trust and depend upon utterly, despite his being so close, in an earlier guise as PPS, to her loathed Europhile predecessor, Ted Heath.

The significance of this is that Mary O'Rourke is both in her 70s and is a formidable politician and cabinet minister.

Another longtime friend and admirer, the Californian minister Thomas Starr King, described Jessie Frémont as "a She-Merrimac, thoroughly sheathed, & carrying fire in the genuine Benton furnaces" with "guns enough to be formidable to a whole cabinet".

Mr. Trump certainly has assembled a formidable crew for his cabinet and top advisory posts that seem well-suited to follow through on the ethical standards to which he himself adheres.

It's not until I notice the Christian Bible and the two bottles of ladies' perfume in the formidable dark-wood china cabinet that I realize I have displaced Grandmother: She's given up her bedroom for me and is sleeping with the granddaughters.

Those dazzling Tudors, they were Welsh too, as were their formidable Cecil henchmen, who sit in cabinets in London to this day.

PM Manmohan Singh pointedly said he had tried to put together a combination of "youth and experience" in the new cabinet to take on the formidable challenges in the run-up to the general elections due in 2014.

Mr. Sharon's formidable chair, at the center of the long cabinet table, was left empty.

Reid's rise in the Labour cabinet is directly attributable to this formidable verbal power and his ability intellectually to dazzle the man at Number 10.

His formidable first task is to cobble together a coalition cabinet composed of people loyal to the former Liberian warlord-turned-president, Charles G. Taylor, and the two armed guerrilla groups that sought to oust him.