Although they were swept by the Houston Rockets, it seemed certain that a formidable dynasty was in the making.
After being saved from the crisis of the Turkish siege of Vienna in 1683, the imperial Habsburgs did indeed obtain one dynastically significant success the conversion, in 1687, of the Hungarian crown into an hereditary one for themselves but by that time it was plain to Europe that the most formidable dynasty was no longer the Habsburg but the Bourbon.
All together they are a formidable dynasty.
996 998) that forced al-Bīrūnī to flee and seek patronage from the more formidable Sāmānid dynasty, which ruled the vast eastern lands of Islam, comprising what is now eastern Iran and much of Afghanistan.
Next door in North Carolina, the polls show the Republican incumbent, Elizabeth Dole, looking unexpectedly vulnerable to her Democratic challenger, Kay Hagan.In New Mexico the chances of Tom Udall, a Democratic congressman and scion of a formidable political dynasty, look nearly as good as Mr Warner's.
But when legal papers arrived, Mr. Brennan realized that the people trying to get his attention were no less than the members of the formidable Brennan dynasty of restaurateurs in New Orleans, who were more than a bit miffed to see their name on a restaurant in New York.
Or is it rather a slow-building force, one that despite faltering in New Hampshire and falling short on Tuesday in big states like California has allowed Mr. Obama to battle one of the most formidable political dynasties to a draw and will eventually propel him to victory?
The Garrett daughters, Millicent and Elizabeth, left home and achieved great things – the vote and entry into the medical profession, respectively – while a necklace of nearby village churches benefited from the skills of the formidable women from the Rope dynasty, one of those footnotes in the Arts and Crafts movement that have been deleted from the pages of art history.
In 2000, when President Assad created a republican dynasty by succeeding his formidable father, Hafez, the referendum produced a comfortable 97.3% vote in favour.
That never happened, but the Mongols did remain a formidable foe for the new Ming dynasty (1368 1644) and in 1449 actually captured a Chinese emperor who had inadvisedly ventured deep into the steppe.
The Manchu, or Qing, dynasty, dominated by the formidable Empress Dowager Tzu Hsi, enlisted the Boxers in a last-ditch effort to shake off the tightening grip of the western powers.
