Sentence examples for formidable hard from inspiring English sources

While the U.S. is not the dominant world power it once was, mostly due to the inevitable rise of other countries, it still remains a nation with formidable hard and soft power.

Mullah Baradar is talking a little, though he is viewed as a formidable, hard-line opponent whose interrogation will be a long-term effort, according to American and Pakistani officials.

The novelty this spring was "Penthesilea," by the fifty-nine-year-old French composer Pascal Dusapin — a formidable, hard-to-classify figure who has drawn on both the convulsive avant-gardism of Iannis Xenakis and the brooding late Romanticism of Sibelius.

Mr. Haynes was formidable, hitting hard and letting space trickle inside his rhythms.

You want to keep it short and clear -- otherwise their attention will stray or they'll find the document formidable and hard to grasp.

The technical challenges are formidable, far harder than at Mars: missions to the Jovian and Saturnian ocean worlds are severely power-limited; trip times can be as much as a half decade and decade, respectively.

The Azzurri scored four tries to one in a scrappy encounter, but while their set-piece looked formidable, they made hard work of the win.

WASHINGTON -- The rise of anti-corporate conservatives is a significant threat to the American banking establishment, according to former Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn)., who warned a gathering of Beltway centrists on Tuesday about a potentially formidable coalition between hard-line banking critics in both parties.

And, they maintain, the risks of attacking the City are small, for it has formidable advantages that are hard to replicate quickly.

Its lots are so vast, its presence so formidable, that it was hard to maintain my optimism about parking lot ecology.

Admittedly injury kept him away in 2009, but it is nonetheless a hard and formidable fact that the last time Nadal walked off court a loser here was after the 2007 final against Roger Federer.