She faced a formidable opponent in Broccoletti, a criminal lawyer for more than 30 years.
Cheibani's criminal networks were formidable, and any of the governments involved—France, Mali, and Niger could have halted the process at any time.
And what if the formidable dame who runs the aforementioned criminal family developed an appetite for cucumber sandwiches?
Marty claimed that Thaci and the Drenica group, which included Fatmir Limaj, had built a "formidable power base in the organized criminal enterprises" in the late nineties, and had exerted "violent control" over the heroin trade in the region.
Building civil cases around C.D.O.'s, let alone criminal ones, will be a formidable challenge, legal experts said.
In later years, hardened criminals were thrown into the mix, and by the 1960s the Cândido Mendes penitentiary had become one of Brazil's most notorious criminal breeding grounds (indeed the formidable drug gang Comando Vermelho was born here in 1979).
Three decades of careful strategy, political nous and ruthlessness have seen Joaquín "Chapo" Guzmán rise to his deserved status as the world's biggest criminal, in charge of its most formidable narcotrafficking syndicate.
But before it was a wildlife mecca, this 24sqkm volcanic island served as a formidable fortress that housed Colombia's most violent criminals, with stone walls, barbed wire and prison guards acting as only the first line of defence.
They had powers to prosecute civil servants for criminal offenses, and they could apply a formidable range of disciplinary measures to civil servants, either by direct action or through the responsible minister.
