Sentence examples for formidable favorite from inspiring English sources

His winner, Spain, throttled what many thought was the most formidable favorite of the day, the 2-5 Ribolettandand last year's championship mare, Beautiful Pleasure.

The Gatsas brothers are not alone in their gamble -- owners for 15 other Breeders' Cup entrants will pay supplemental fees to get their horses into one of the day's eight races, including the owner of Riboletta, the most formidable favorite of the day.

One reason, among many, that she is a formidable favorite to win reelection in November.

The federal government has been struggling to come up with plans to accommodate the growing numbers of off-highway vehicles — mostly with proposed maps directing them toward designated trails — but all-terrain-vehicle users have started formidable lobbying campaigns when favorite trails have been left off the maps.

Alexander Hamilton called "arbitrary imprisonments" by the executive "the favorite and most formidable instruments of tyranny".

"The practice of arbitrary imprisonments," Alexander Hamilton observed in Federalist No. 84, has been "in all ages" one of "the favorite and most formidable instruments of tyranny".

Tovey's final program — a collaboration between the orchestra and the formidable U.S. Military Academy Band — features not only favorite works by Copland (the "Four Dance Episodes," from "Rodeo") and Sousa but also the world première of his own "Urban Runway," a co-commission with the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

It begins with a quotation from Alexander Hamilton -- "The creation of crimes after the commission of the fact... and the practice of arbitrary imprisonments, have been, in all ages, the favorite and most formidable instruments of tyranny" -- and goes on to request that the court release Hamdan from solitary and declare the tribunals unconstitutional.

Of the formidable ensemble, the Saturday Night Live favorite proves the most compulsively watchable, marshaling a bevy of endearing quirks into a star-making, supremely confident turn.

The fast hardcourts of Flushing Meadows have never been his favorite surface, but Nadal remains formidable anywhere he plays.

Virginia has elected successive Democratic governors, and in 2006 the Democrat Jim Webb unseated the formidable Senator George Allen, who was considered a favorite among potential Republican Presidential contenders.