Sentence examples for formidable drive from inspiring English sources

He is an innovator with formidable drive.

Ken Hawley, who has died aged 87, was one of Sheffield's foremost industrial historians, a former tool salesman whose inquiring mind, formidable drive and eye for an opportunity led him to assemble a collection of international importance.

The 31,000 members of the Society of Jesus (also known at the Company of Jesus in Spanish) make up a formidable, driven organisation.

That one felt, a little, the pressure of Weston's own determination in the latter achievement – her need to make sense of ceasing to be a brilliant doctor by becoming a brilliant writer – was in some ways a beguiling aspect of the book's autobiographical remit; one was partaking of Weston's formidable drives, with a marginally clearer view of their brutality than the author herself.

The apparent lack of objective criteria to judge how well - or not - this formidable recruitment drive is going gives further cause for concern.

It was perhaps with a sub-conscious nod to the prevailing wind that the majority of the report was given up to describing the brilliance not of the victor Doherty but instead the loser: Brookes's positioning, his timing, his eye for a ball flying out of court, his especially formidable forehand drive.

But while the core story of "Gravity" is pure genre down to the workmanlike nature of chunks of its dialogue, it makes the most of that situation by having a formidable narrative drive, a plot smartly worked out to the smallest, most persuasive detail, and an intense, immersive score and sound design by composer Steven Price.

Joey Maramba growled and bowed his bass to formidable proportions, driven on by Deantoni Parks drumfiree.

Political Affiliation: Republican Age: 72 Occupation: Retired Concerned About: Debt Supporting: Mitt Romney — NARAYAN MAHON Mr. Romney easily won the Maryland primary on Tuesday night, according to The Associated Press, steadily adding to a comfortable delegate lead that he hopes will soon be formidable enough to drive his lagging rivals from the race for the Republican presidential nomination.

Pennell was narrowly short with a long-range penalty before Irish produced another formidable line-out drive.

Our intent and hope in ordering the presentation this way is to allow the non-expert to appreciate the key ideas of the subject, without getting ensnarled in the at-first-glance formidable constructs which drive the generalizations.