However, many of the French cavalry did not manage to penetrate through the formidable masses of Austrian infantry, so Nansouty was now commanding a much diminished force.
The Tea Party already has some formidable assets; widespread mass media name recognition, proven human energy, voter turnout skills, fundraising capabilities, supportive conservative think tank support and, unfortunately, little electoral competition for the above-mentioned objectives.
The complexity of the protein, and hence peptide mixtures, poses a formidable challenge to mass spectrometrical analysis.
I'm thinking of what might be termed America's foreign policy vortex -- a swirling mass of formidable challenges that reach across the globe, run the gamut of crises and raise crucial questions about our nation's role in the world, its values, its ability to find consensus and its appetite for international engagement.
In 1587, as Philip II massed a formidable fleet for the invasion of England, Queen Elizabeth did not wait to be attacked.
The state prison guard union -- often a formidable force in debates over mass incarceration -- sat the ballot measure debate out.
Martin Geck, the formidable German musicologist, deals extensively with the Mass in "Johann Sebastian Bach: Life and Work," which has just appeared in an impressive translation by John Hargraves.
Together with the formidable development of complex technologies (chemical industry, energy production, mass transportation, etc), new hazards have emerged.
But producing CIGS cells on a mass scale has turned out to be a formidable technological challenge, requiring the invention of specialized manufacturing equipment.
She is part of a Japanese generation that takes commercialism & materialism in its stride; advertisements in the mass media seem to her the natural tools for formidable artistic self-expression.
