"I was in front of a very formidable committee — the dean, and the chairs of all the divisions of the School of the Arts, the real heavy hitters.
Mrs. Kennedy gathered together a formidable committee, with Henry Francis du Pont, founder of Winterthur, the museum of decorative arts near Wilmington, Del., as its chairman.
But then, as the committee's formidable chair, former Labour minister Margaret Hodge, said, they didn't seem to want to look in the right place.
He and Mr. Paul's two state co-chairmen — along with two other Paul supporters — now make up 5 of 17 members on the state Republican central committee, a formidable presence in the party.
At the same time, everyone knows which side Sweden would take in a hypothetical war: there has been a long tradition of collaboration in intelligence matters, and its armed forces snuggle as close to Nato as they can; Sweden is represented on more than 150 Nato committees, even if this figure represents only a fraction of Nato's formidable capacity to deploy committees.
In the selection of candidates for the European Parliament, as for Scotland and Wales, Mr Blair has created a formidable machinery of vetting committees that prize loyalty above talent.
Photogenic, poised, articulate, bitterly disappointed, a television natural (she also models and works as a motivational speaker), Arlen makes a formidable opponent for the Paralympic committee.
His financial shrewdness made him a formidable member of the select committee on trade and industry when it was investigating the role of Customs and Excise in the export, in parts, of the "supergun" to Iraq.
The prime minister has a formidable knowledge of the arcane committees and procedures that underpin the daily business of E.U. affairs in Brussels, where she was a member of the European Parliament.
For all the wider manifestations of their influence, the Nobel Prizes still retain their formidable stature chiefly because the committees have, for the most part, chosen a long succession of gloriously talented scientists, writers and peacemakers.
Elections ensured that Andrew Tyrie, the formidable chair of the Treasury select committee, was in place to give ministers and bankers a sceptical hearing.
