His formidable family instilled in him an early interest in art and a sense of public service.
Adlington's eyebrows arched and her mouth dropped - but then, typically for an Olympian whose homely background has made her a national favourite, her formidable family weighed in.
This is, after all, what Mr. Obama himself was trying to tell us about our politics when he set out to run in 2007 against his party's most formidable family, the Clintons of Little Rock and Chappaqua.
Joe Kennedy was involved in virtually all the history of his time, and his biographer persuasively makes the case that he was the most fascinating member of his large, famous and very formidable family.
Nasaw's biography — one of the Book Review's 10 Best Books of 2012 — captures the sweep of Kennedy's life and persuasively makes the case that he was the most fascinating member of his large, famous and formidable family.
More recently, I bowed to formidable family pressure to get our dog Tatty, mostly because she looks like a black version of Snowy and so I thought she might lead us to adventures.
Poor Josh Hamilton has the misfortune of being the outsider here, and unfortunately he seems as flummoxed by the character of Hal, a math nerd redeemed by self-awareness and wit, as Hal does by the formidable family he confronts here.
The historian Edmund King has called Reginald "the fixer in that formidable family".
Businessman, author, journalist, politician, and the bearer of a formidable family name, Riccardo Illy has held a number of posts within the global and local business and political communities.
She also became the matriarch of a family of formidable folk musicians, including her stepson Pete Seeger and her own children Mike and Peggy.
