The other side of him being tougher than people understand, a more objective and formidable operator, is that although he is a perfectly courteous and nice person, he doesn't have a reaching-out sort of personality.
The objectives were formidable.
The objectives are formidable: The sleepy old institution will be resurrected as an organization with cutting-edge ideas that can sense and respond to India's long-term challenges.
Precisely because the automobile has become an integral part of our lives, consumer expectations establish a set of formidable and often conflicting design objectives.
But, in the past two decades, a small number of scientists have begun finding ways to capture the experience in quantifiable, objective data, and Tracey has emerged as a formidable figure in the field.
The objective of nuclear disarmament is a complex and formidable challenge for which all attending Laureates will call on the international community to take immediate action.
While modernization is always the central objective of poor countries, the rural urban divide is a formidable political constraint to any modernization project.
The Obama administration has resolutely worked to craft more formidable international coalitions to isolate North Korea and Iran for important U.S. policy objectives.
Like most Arabs, he views US policies in the Middle East as the biggest threat to regional security, so influencing Washington is a major objective, which for a small country like Qatar is a formidable challenge.
This formidable NATO capability threatens to deny him from achieving his military objectives and providing real, costly, and punishing retaliation in the event that he escalates the conflict and chooses the cross the nuclear threshold.
The apparent lack of objective criteria to judge how well - or not - this formidable recruitment drive is going gives further cause for concern.
