Mr. Bloomberg could make a formidable candidate for governor, in part because of his great wealth.
Henry R. Muñoz III, the finance chairman of the Democratic National Committee and a friend and a partner in the Futuro Fund, said he believed she would be "a formidable candidate" for public office.
In 1997, Republican senators held up her nomination by President Bill Clinton to the appeals court for more than a year, foreseeing that as a Hispanic appellate judge she would be a formidable candidate for the Supreme Court.
After saying he had "tremendous respect" for Mrs. Clinton and calling her a "formidable candidate" for national office, Mr. Warner said that Mrs. Clinton was not the presumptive Democratic nominee.
One for the inessential on all counts folder is A Long Way Down, an excruciatingly tone-deaf adaptation of Nick Hornby's already iffy novel about suicide-club bonding, and already a formidable candidate for the year's most objectionable film.
And this is why, despite his age, @JoeBiden would make a formidable candidate for Democrats.
For the past year, since July 1 , 2015 I was officially in the race for NY's 13th Congressional District, a formidable candidate for an historic seat held by Charles Rangel for the past 46 years, and prior to him, the late Rev Adam Clayton Powell, Jr, for more than three decades.
The Islamists have three formidable candidates.
Apollo and its partners were regarded as formidable candidates relatively early on in the process, in part because they sought to buy the El Paso businesses in one transaction, making for a cleaner sale, according to people briefed on the matter.
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.
