Sentence examples for formidable leaders from inspiring English sources

They were led by formidable leaders: from 991 to 994 by Olaf Tryggvason, later king of Norway, and frequently from 994 by Sweyn, king of Denmark.

And yet if Haley Barbour, the governor of Mississippi and the outgoing chairman of the Republican Governors Association, wasn't the party's biggest winner this election year, then he certainly emerged as one of the most formidable leaders eyeing the presidency in 2012.

"Flower was a formidable leader and a noble mother," the narrator Sean Astin quietly elegized.

All of which played into the hands of Lyon, the once formidable leader of the French clubs.

He looked like and sounded like — maybe even is in the process of once again becoming — a formidable leader.

Cameron would be a more formidable leader if he had stuck to the liberal conservatism that he once offered.

They include the group's formidable leader Helen Rebecca Frontt), her outrageous mother Emily, perpetually pregnant Eva and the unfortunately toothed Gwen.

Hafez was a formidable leader because he was that rare breed, an extremist who knew when to stop.

"This is a lot more fun," said Ms. Tunney, who plays the formidable leader of the investigative team for which Patrick consults.

"Dresden is an extraordinary museum undertaking in the context of Germany and I'm sure he will be a formidable leader for the British Museum".

After another spell at the LSE, he graduated and, in 1950, joined the staff of the Transport & General Workers Union (TGWU), then under its formidable leader, Ernie Bevin, Labour's foreign secretary.