No one knows how the cat acquired his formidable death-sniffing skills.
There's a way in which we have come to think of doctors and nurses as part of the formidable medical endeavour to hold death at bay whatever the cost; death is the ultimate failure.
De-industrialization, the beginning of the end of manufacturing, and white flight to the post-war suburbs: The South Bronx died a death of many formidable causes.
His death closed a formidable chapter in American art, for he was one of the last surviving members of the vanguard Abstract Expressionists who gave the United States its first international art triumph.
The headmistress, the formidable Beatrice May Baker — who until her death, at ninety-seven, remained a friend of Murdoch's — exposed her rich girls to a regimen of cold baths in the morning, serious academic studies, and, as Fascism took hold on the Continent, left-wing idealism.
She was born to two art historians, later to become one herself: the often absent, gay Ben Nicolson, editor of The Burlington Magazine, with whom she enjoyed a closeness before his early death, and the formidable, unreliably attentive Luisa Vertova, employed by Christie's in Italy.
He assumes his career in business has prepared him to deal with the most formidable matters of life and death.
This gap will persist until we have high quality prospective ethnic group coding systems in health-care databases and the inclusion of an ethnic code on birth and death registration – both formidable long-term challenges, hitherto unachieved in either Europe or North America [ 1].
Although the country has intensified efforts to provide basic maternal and child health services through the Health Extension Program [ 7, 8], reducing perinatal deaths remains a formidable challenge to achieving Millennium Development Goal 4 in rural Ethiopia [ 9, 10], where only 4.1% of deliveries are attended by skilled birth attendants [ 6].
Neither age nor death seemed quite so formidable, seen in this light.
After her death, Evita remained a formidable influence in Argentine politics.
