Sentence examples for formidable high from inspiring English sources

Tree Hill, N.C., takes basketball so seriously that the formidable high school coach comes off as N.B.A. material.

But he's already got himself a formidable high priestess and enough sinners to keep her busy for a good long while.

The plot, a small town in the Colorado mountains and its most formidable high school students (including Patrick Swayze, Charlie Sheen, C. Thomas Howell, Jennifer Grey), defend against Soviet and Cuban paratroopers.

SAN FRANCISCO — It's a formidable high-tech face-off: Amazon.com versus Apple for the hearts and minds of book publishers, authors and readers.

While Mr. Obama has collected unprecedented amounts in small donations over the Internet, he also has a formidable high-dollar fund-raising apparatus.

Hair accessories also abound: combs with gold handles, hairpins that double as snuff dispensers, a formidable high-color dangling ornament from Sudan made of bullet casings.

His fund-raising apparatus, however, also features a formidable high-dollar network that has collected more $1,000 contributions and above than Mrs. Clinton's once-vaunted team of bundlers of campaign donations.

Anwar is a polarising figure in a conservative nation of 30 million, where his political career has spanned formidable highs and lows: once serving as the deputy prime minister and finance minister, he was courted by international media and graced the cover of Newsweek, then fell out spectacularly with the premier Mahathir Mohamad.

Entrepreneurs and their start-ups have dominated Silicon Valley's economy in recent decades, but a different dynamic was at work from 1940 to 1965, when the Valley emerged as a formidable high-tech region.

Her range is formidable; the high tones have accuracy and brilliance, and the low are firm and vibrant.

Dante de Oliveira, the state's governor, hopes success with cotton output has increased fivefold and jobs doubled to 25,000 since 1996 will now attract a textile industry.Commercial farming in Mato Grosso has had to overcome formidable obstacles: high transport costs, recently low world prices, a currency till now overvalued, and a chronic lack of farm credit.