Sentence examples for formidable candidates from inspiring English sources

The Islamists have three formidable candidates.

But Mr. Daschle added that there would be many other formidable candidates.

And it demonstrated how fiercely these two formidable candidates are moving to nail down support in all quarters.

Update: Some — well, several — interlocutors have pointed out that we had no women on our list, and that several make formidable candidates.

Fusion voting, also called cross-endorsements, was common during the 19th century, when parties would often team up to defeat formidable candidates.

In the Democratic primaries of 1972, Mr. McGovern said, he faced formidable candidates, like Mr. Humphrey, Mr. Wallace, Edmund S. Muskie and Henry M. Jackson.

"He's a formidable candidate".

He was an extremely formidable candidate".

"She will be a formidable candidate.

Mr. Thompson had already emerged as a more formidable candidate.

Mr Perry, however, might prove a formidable candidate.