The most formidable parent of all is Matilda's mother, Dolores, who goes on the warpath after her daughter develops a long-distance, time-traveling crush on a lad from England.
Now they have a formidable parent company in DJI that is a powerhouse both in China and the U.S. with significant manufacturing advantages due to their size.
More recently, in 1999, it became an independent company when Johnson Wax Professional was split off from its formidable parent, SC Johnson & Son, a manufacturer of well-known consumer household products such as Windex and Pledge.
Senior, a contributing editor to New York magazine, fills that gap, examining the formidable challenges of parenting, while explaining how it can also bring meaning and joy to one's life.
This is perhaps one of the most formidable parts about parenting - the struggle between throwing down the gauntlet, honoring the change in our children, recognizing the growth they've made from preschool to high school, and taking that deep breath, holding it for just a second, and releasing it with a quiet, "yes".
But the evidence that she was still a suspect parent was formidable.
More important, UOL mounted a formidable advertising campaign using its parents' own media outlets, which include Sao Paulo's leading newspaper, Folha de Sao Paulo, and Brazil's leading weekly news magazine, Veja.
She crosses continents literally, from Delhi to New York and back, and emotionally, from a sheltered teenager living at home with her parents to a formidable, independent creature, happy to hit a bar by herself and request the cocktail of the title.
In translating the needs of his U.S. division to the parent company, Gottlieb had a formidable task.
Nevertheless, many parents and students face a formidable tab for four or more years of a college education.
