Sentence examples for formidable prize from inspiring English sources
On the Democratic side, Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama seem likely to continue their state-by-state struggle, after a night of tit-for-tat division of states and delegates, though Mrs. Clinton claimed the formidable prize of California.
Colombia's gold reserves were a formidable prize for Spanish colonists, who eventually imported African slaves to work the colony's rich veins.
The list of past Nobel winners is formidable — those Swedish prize-givers are sharp — but a list of non-winners would be surprising and not entirely reassuring.
These first-time writers join a formidable list of recent prize-winning novelists including Marlon James, Esi Edugyan, Jesmyn Ward and Colson Whitehead.
In the selection of candidates for the European Parliament, as for Scotland and Wales, Mr Blair has created a formidable machinery of vetting committees that prize loyalty above talent.
Her novel, Purple Hibiscus, a Nigerian coming-of-age story set during the military dictatorship of the mid-90s, is now a contender for the women-only prize in the most formidable shortlist of any book contest this year - a list stronger in depth than at the final stage of either the Booker or Whitbread prizes.
And there was the patronage of the formidable (and irascible) Sir Ernest Chain, Nobel Prize-winner.
The eventual line up was formidable by any measure: three Turner prize-winners and arguably Britain's most famous living painter.
During his eight years in that role, The Times sustained and built its formidable newsgathering staff, winning 18 Pulitzer Prizes, and expanded its audience by mastering the journalistic potential of the Internet.
For all the wider manifestations of their influence, the Nobel Prizes still retain their formidable stature chiefly because the committees have, for the most part, chosen a long succession of gloriously talented scientists, writers and peacemakers.
The Inquirer established a formidable reputation by winning 17 Pulitzer Prizes between 1975 and 1990, a total second only to that of The New York Times in that period.
