Sentence examples for formidable expert from inspiring English sources

She was a great talker, in inimitable staccato, rapid, hushed tones, and loved food and good wine, on which she was a formidable expert.

Over the next several decades, Ms. Lopez, who died Dec. 28 at her home in New Haven at 92, would rise to become editor in chief of the collection and a formidable expert on Franklin.

In a Clarion-Collegium seminar at Park Avenue Christian on Thursday evening, Andrew Parrott, the music director of the New York Collegium and a formidable expert on the work, speculated that it had been intended as a sort of "do-it-yourself Vespers kit" for directors of church choirs.

Sent into Sangin, Afghanistan's opium-producing heartland, in 2010, the battalion faced a formidable enemy expert in the use of I.E.D.'s., losing 25 Marines in a seven-month tour, the second most of any American unit in the entire war, a Times analysis shows.

The Beast is Mark Labbett, the formidable British trivia expert whom contestants must out-answer on the GSN game show "The Chase".

Building civil cases around C.D.O.'s, let alone criminal ones, will be a formidable challenge, legal experts said.

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

Pay Criticized Despite Exxon's formidable performance, some experts and consumer groups were surprised by the compensation given to Lee R. Raymond, the company's chief executive.

But reviving the Iraqi oil industry, under the scrutiny of a skeptical world and the Iraqis themselves, will be a formidable task, industry experts said.

Perhaps you will say that I am making too many abrupt transitions between humanistic interpretation on the one hand and foreign policy on the other, and that a modern technological society which along with unprecedented power possesses the internet and F-16 fighter-jets must in the end be commanded by formidable technical-policy experts like Donald Rumsfeld and Richard Perle.

[Page A1.] The federal government has mustered a formidable roster of experts to back up its Microsoft proposal, but its plan to break up an American symbol of technological excellence and wealth creation is a drastic step that enters uncharted territory.