Sentence examples for formidable countries from inspiring English sources

Furthermore, GSE bonds are held in huge numbers by large companies and formidable countries.

Piyamaradus used Millawanda (possibly Miletus) as his base; that city was a dependency of Ahhiyawa, a large and formidable country, the identity and geographic location of which have been the subject of prolonged controversy.

Seventy countries are sending 500 wrestlers to the championships, with men's powers like Iran and Russia sending strong teams; Cuba, usually a formidable country, only sent three wrestlers in seven weight categories.

Halfway through "The Great Game: Afghanistan" — the Tricycle Theater's formidable seven-hour cycle of short plays about a formidable country — a British writer finds herself alone with Najibullah, the deposed Afghan president, now under house arrest in Kabul in 1996.

Japan was therefore a much more formidable country to invade than England, and after the destruction of Kublai Khan's fleets and armies in the 13th century, ultimately by the typhoon which the Japanese called kamikaze, "divine wind", no further efforts were made until General MacArthur showed up in 1945.

A handful of immigrant socialists, most of them Yiddish-speaking laborers, gathered in the Essex Street home of Sam Greenberg, a cloak maker, wanting to find a way to take care of one another through sickness and death as they tried to gain footholds in a formidable country.

"China is a formidable country with a large economy and a modern military," he explains.

The partnership with Russia is just one more point of connection, but a big one with a giant, formidable country, in a plan to increase the rate at which consumers could one day buy something from halfway around the world and get it before the sun goes down.

In a correspondence lasting from 1947 to Berenson's death in 1959, Trevor-Roper writes glancingly about Suez and Israel and acutely about the differences between East and West Germany (the East 'converted into a formidable industrial state, the Black Country of the Balkans', the West all 'formless materialism').

But the U.S. dollar has a formidable advantage: If countries stopped investing their foreign reserves in dollars, their currencies would appreciate against the dollar and they would suffer capital losses on their large dollar holdings.

The potential of Nordic registry research is formidable, as these countries have national health data sources and the possibility to combine data in a way not possible in other countries (Table 6).