Sentence examples for formidable displays from inspiring English sources

They turned everything outwards, wearing their lights like diamonds, confronting the visitor not with strong defences but with equally formidable displays of confidence.

The resulting castle was what historian Anthony Emery has described as one of the "last formidable displays of medieval defensive architecture".

Verizon hopes, with its acquisition of Yahoo, to build a formidable display-advertising business.

These talents are on formidable display in her latest novel, The Past.

Karate master Tetsuhiro Hokama runs his own private museum (entry £2.30), which has an extensive collection of memorabilia and artefacts, including a formidable display of weapons.

This formidable display of categorization has produced a complex and intricate cultural system of representing ethnic territories, racial mappings and exclusionary perceptions.

This budget could be a formidable display of power and a rebuttal to those critics who have derided Mr Osborne as a neophyte.

Thanks, probably, to the formidable display of military force, no serious disorders occurred yesterday, despite the announced determination of the Labor organizations to hold the usual May-Day manifestations.

WASHINGTON — The Senate voted on Saturday to begin full debate on major health care legislation, propelling President Obama's top domestic initiative over a crucial, preliminary hurdle in a formidable display of muscle-flexing by the Democratic majority.

Poised between satire and sincerity, pure noise and politics, "Credo in Us" left the rest of the program seeming obvious (though Louis Andriessen's raucous 30-player "Worker's Union," its formidable display of rhythmic discipline always threatening to unravel, held its own).

Murray, who now faces a semi-final on Friday against Poland's Jerzy Janowicz, had warned that Verdasco would be a dangerous opponent and the former world No 7 rolled back the years with a formidable display of big serving and ferocious ball-striking that belied his current ranking at No 54.