Sentence examples for formidable institutions from inspiring English sources

When I asked several presenters what they were doing to change the direction of their formidable institutions, the reply came, "Oh I can't do anything radical".

Unfortunately, too, though they are the biggest exporters of capital in the world, their savings swell the coffers of the banks, not to mention some other formidable institutions at home, thus complicating the bad-debt problem.At least until next March, the bulk of these savings are guaranteed by the government.

There were other donors to the show, of course, but they were formidable institutions like the Musée de L'Armée and the French Sénat.

As the nation once again struggles to wring some clarity from yet another blood-soaked story, it strikes me that two such formidable institutions, a state government and a major motion picture studio, might join forces to find a solution to one of America's most pressing plagues.

It was born with the Mexican Revolution, in 1917, and was a formidable institution into the 1970's.

The society, Mr. Cantwell added, is "a formidable institution, and it has been one of the most important organizations for more than 100 years".

Under their leadership, it grew from a one-room museum with a collection of 184 objects, and deeply in debt, to a formidable institution with many masterpieces among its 4,000 objects.

But the deal reflects the extent to which Mr. Seifert, a former management consultant, has expanded and redefined what had been a sleepy stock exchange into a formidable institution.

"Toshiko is an indefatigable advocate of architecture in the broader halls of academia and a formidable institution builder whose determination, patience, and hard work have earned her the broad respect and admiration in academia at large, in the profession, and wherever she has been called to represent architecture," wrote Silvetti in a letter supporting Mori's nomination.

The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) is today a formidable institution, an administrative machine more than a thousand employees strong that occupies a giant building in The Hague, just outside the heart of the city known as the center of international law.

Mr. Pitofsky has been a central player in the transformation of the agency from what was known as the "little old lady of Pennsylvania Avenue," a dumping ground for defeated lawmakers, to a formidable institution that is the leading regulatory body of Internet and consumer issues, as well as one of Washington's two antitrust enforcers.