And China is providing formidable low-cost competition.
When it comes to clothes, H&M and Zara are formidable low-cost, real-world incumbents.
In 2005, the house hired a forty-one-year-old designer named Christophe Decarnin, who transformed its collections into a sybaritic rock-and-roll fantasy, with casual-looking clothes at formidable prices: low-slung ripped jeans, embellished with crystals, could cost fourteen hundred dollars; a torn T-shirt could be sixteen hundred.
White House officials assert that any mistakes are eclipsed by accomplishments that defied formidable obstacles, the low expectations for Mr. Bush and the tightness of the 2000 election.
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.
This support has rendered a little less painful the formidable economic stagnation and low standard of living of the overwhelming majority of the population.
A once formidable professional golfer, brought low by personal scandals, lets a camera follow him around during a rocky comeback attempt in a futile effort to make himself an object of sympathy.
With warm sea surface temperatures, a formidable anticyclone aloft, and low wind shear, the system continued to mature as it tracked northwestward.
It is formidable to identify very low abundant glycopeptides in a complex sample.
Attaining this goal requires that all persons have information about the disease and know their infection status, a formidable challenge in both low- and high-income countries.
The relationship between researchers and researched is also 'far more problematic if those involved in the research are at a completely different level of economic and political power' [ 17] (p. 10), and researchers face formidable challenges in some low- and middle-income countries in obtaining reliable, valid and representative data.
