Sentence examples for formidable family from inspiring English sources
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.
Matthew Parker's narrative account of the sugar trade and the formidable families who were behind it, in particular the Draxes, the Codringtons and William Beckford of Fonthill (pictured) and his forebears, is a tumultuous rollercoaster of a book.The wealth that came from sugar was extraordinary.
She also became the matriarch of a family of formidable folk musicians, including her stepson Pete Seeger and her own children Mike and Peggy.
Its president, Alejandro Santo Domingo, is the 32-year-old scion of Colombia's formidable Santo Domingo family.
It pits a formidable establishment family with inherited wealth against a politically connected Goliath whose 53 casinos straddle the globe.
Besides reporting the results of his fund-raising on Friday, Mr. Pawlenty will announce new members of his campaign team who have ties to the formidable Bush family fund-raising network.
