Sentence examples for formidable mission from inspiring English sources

This quiet French nun is on a formidable mission, as the financial strategist behind the country's first ethical investment funds.

For the first time since 2004, St. Francis earned a trip to the playoffs with a fourth-place finish in a formidable Mission League.

But Boeke dazzled to the tune of a no-hitter against the always-formidable Mission League squad.

They rely mostly on AK-47 rifles, rocket-propelled grenade launchers, pickup trucks and heavy machine guns, along with a formidable sense of mission and effusive esprit de corps among their forces, which they say number 70,000, though there is no independent confirmation.

The challenges and risks of Mr. Thompson's mission are formidable.

The mission was formidable: to build a new generation of leaders for Peru.

"Imagine the Swiss Alps covered in jungle," says the series' producer Steve Greenwood, who was charged with sorting the formidable logistics of their mission.

Mr. Jeffrey's mission is formidable: to help Thompson New York wipe away the tarnish put on its reputation by almost two years of turnover in accounts, shortfalls in several high-profile reviews and turmoil in the top executive ranks.

It said while some progress had been made in passing laws against sexual and gender-based violence, and improving women's security, "conflict-related sexual violence as a deliberate strategy in areas of conflict still occurs with impunity" and had proved a "formidable challenge" for peacekeeping missions.

Dawn Vasco impresses as the formidable general who supervises the mission.

During a six-month period in 1944, Mr. Vujnovich (pronounced VOIN-ovich), an Army officer serving in the Office of Strategic Services, the forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency, ran a vast aerial rescue mission that succeeded against formidable odds.