There has been little of the "formidable and impressive" air of "wrecked distinction" that O'Neill described.
On the evidence of 2008, when he led the Bravehearts to the first World Cup victory in their history over those formidable Fijians, he will do so with distinction.
One such moment was provided by Daenerys Targaryen, the formidable young leader who, among her many distinctions, happens to have birthed three dragons.
This line, which involved a separation of sovereign and despotic power, brought them into conflict with a formidable opponent, the seventeenth-century English philosopher, Thomas Hobbes, who glossed over this distinction.
But determining which scientific and technological inventions merited distinction as the greatest breakthroughs of the last century proved as formidable and fraught an assignment as, say, choosing the greatest baseball players of the last hundred years.
The Alexandria school is one of the smallest in Virginia with a Class 6 distinction, but fifth-year Coach Eric Henderson has turned the Hawks into a consistently formidable program.
While the Nasdaq 100′s run may continue for a while, several major distinctions between the investment environment today and that in early 2000 should prove formidable barriers to driving the Nasdaq much higher.
Michael is a formidable campaigner who provides an important & authentic voice..@MichaelDugher is Labour to the core & has served our Party with distinction.
Only months ago, that distinction would have unquestionably gone to the state's senior senator, Robert G. Torricelli, a political kingmaker in New Jersey and a formidable fund-raiser for his Senate colleagues here in Washington.
The takeover was passed by antitrust regulators because Brazilians make little distinction in their buying habits between soft drinks and beer: In beverages as a whole, AmBev has a less formidable 40% share.
