Sentence examples for formidable city from inspiring English sources
Athens, for example, exported olive oil, silver, and pottery, and the profits of that trade enabled it to build a great navy and formidable city walls.
England's few mayors are hardly formidable city bosses in the mould of Michael Bloomberg in New York; their authority is mostly moral and influential.
On the whole, South Korea has built a formidable city in Seoul, and one that will serve ably as a model for other countries looking to craft world-class urban environments of their own.
He describes how the formidable city walls were built of oven-baked mud bricks laid using hot bitumen for mortar, traces of which can be spotted today where the ancient walls meet the bricks laid in the kitsch, Saddam-era restoration of the 1980s.
Johannesburg is a formidable city of great magnitude, beyond what I had expected.
It's a formidable city with beautiful sites, great architecture, excellent shopping, lovely beaches and awesome coffee shops.
In January, the show set out on a formidable, 60-city, four-month national tour; last Sunday, it appeared at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark, and today it will be on Long Island at the Staller Center in Stony Brook.
Some of these planned cities, like St . Petersburg(circa 1703), Washington, D.C. (circa 1800), or Ottawa (circa 1857), by virtue of the money lavished into their contained and well-populated nuclei, naturally and organically evolved into more formidable mega cities and commercial hubs.
Brian Clough had built a formidable side, but City were ready.
A website address might just be symbolism, but symbolism is important, not least on the international stage, where the likes of Lamm have genuine concerns, while others use the pretext of a lack of independence of the English and Welsh profession as a way to keep the formidable competition that City law firms represent out of their jurisdictions.
Longtime Burbank Water and Power board member Bob Olson said Davis is a "formidable choice" for city manager.
