Sentence examples for formidable powerful from inspiring English sources

Initially presented as a comic, even pathetic figure, he becomes increasingly formidable, powerful and ultimately sinister as the novels progress.

This justification of the Romans is hugely necessary in the story, because we are going into a great time, a golden period of Roman history -- a time of Caesar... You're showing that there are really two sides to the coin and that Rome is a formidable, powerful, but also a very advanced society.

Jemma Redgrave fleshed out UNIT boss Kate Stewart, a formidable and powerful woman driven almost to the point of genocide by daddy issues.

But as James Kirchick of the New Republic pointed out, his leadership credentials remain untested, his policy programme is both grandiose and vague on particulars, and President Saakashvili remains a formidable and powerful rival.

So I think Facebook has the chance to be the most formidable and powerful company on the Web, undoubtedly, in my mind.

Now, at age 40, Mr. Benno is walking into another extraordinary undertaking dominated by an even more formidable hierarchy of powerful figures.

A simple way to understand what happened to Japan in the 1980s and 1990s is that a country with many strengths, especially a high average level of education, formidable technology and powerful social co-ordination within companies, came to lose its basic disciplines and incentives, particularly in the late 1980s when it experienced one of the biggest asset booms in world history.

But Nemoianu is a formidable voice and powerful intellect who almost pulls it off.

"They belong to a powerful, formidable, brave and numerous people; a true people like so many others the world has seen - like the Arabs, the Persians, the Greeks and the Romans.

He's made formidable friends and powerful enemies.

This concise and accessible history reveals how these conservative leaders discovered a winning formula that enabled them to forge a powerful and formidable political majority.