Sentence examples for formidable education from inspiring English sources

For many journalists of my pampered postwar generation, what we saw in Bosnia provided a formidable education in the gravity of moral choice, the power of the individual conscience and the scarcity of heroes.

Seventies pre-teen boys having more freedom in what they wore both at school and at home; sportswear becoming part of the fashion and lifestyle world; punks using colour in anger - all these things came together to give a formidable education in the use of colour that had not been available to those born before it.

What would seem inarguable is that Petraeus's formidable education in precisely those situations that most closely paralleled the one in Iraq contributed to his capacity to cope and better than anyone else.

If objections to the proposal are formidable, many education experts feel it does not go far enough.

It has become formidable in our education partly because our educational beliefs are evangelically egalitarian.

There is no question that the Taliban and other militant Islamic groups represent a formidable barrier to education in Pakistan.

A simple way to understand what happened to Japan in the 1980s and 1990s is that a country with many strengths, especially a high average level of education, formidable technology and powerful social co-ordination within companies, came to lose its basic disciplines and incentives, particularly in the late 1980s when it experienced one of the biggest asset booms in world history.

Were all such upgrades to occur in medical education, formidable challenges would still remain.

Spurred by growing demand for workers performing abstract job tasks, the payoff for college and professional degrees has soared; despite its formidable price tag, higher education has perhaps never been a better investment.

(2006, p. 589).... forging an identity and becoming a member of a community of practice through active participation... (therefore) the challenge to online education is formidable.

Unfortunately, there is a dearth of effective HIV prevention programs targeting youth in rural settings where there are often formidable barriers to sex education programs.