What better instant favorite could there be than Bastian Schweinsteiger, the formidable (and perhaps still injured) midfielder from the Bundesliga?
For the United States, these political challenges are formidable — and perhaps insuperable — but there's no real alternative.
But it does seem to have cracked a formidable barrier, perhaps the final one, that stood in the way of everyone in the world being able to play the same game together, all at once.
Gary Engels, a state investigator in Arizona, hopes that the images of a frail and skinny 50-year-old Mr Jeffs on trial may damage his formidable image, perhaps persuading some of the wives to testify against him.
Although up to the middle of the century Mozart was still widely regarded as having been surpassed in most respects by Beethoven, with the increased historical perspective of the later 20th century he came to be seen as an artist of a formidable, indeed perhaps unequaled, expressive range.
Reversing these elements of American life are, admittedly, formidable -- perhaps impossible -- tasks.
Nobody could knock the transport system, with its humming fleet of electric buses, or the facilities at every venue; and yet, despite this formidable organization — or perhaps as its inevitable result — the enterprise, as a whole, was beset by a looming lack of joy.
It was a formidable rival for the perhaps better-known Brough Superior.
Should I become a grandma, perhaps my formidable tiger mother-in-lawing will emerge.
