He, as well as other politicians, has been critical of the government's response to the protests.More formidable is Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, an ex-president who supported the main opposition candidate, Mir Hosein Mousavi.
If you think the Wall Street protests are formidable, watch out when the boomers fully wake up to their plight and mobilize.
But to have an impact on government policy, these protests face a formidable political obstacle: the man proposing to lead such critics in a broad coalition to unseat the Israeli prime minister, Ariel Sharon, is also the minister in charge of developing and carrying out the military methods they are attacking.
Regardless of who did what to whom, Emick watched from the sidelines over next few months as hackers operating under the aegis of Anonymous carried out digital "protests" against increasingly formidable foes, temporarily paralyzing into the websites of PayPal and Sony, for example.
Many of Swartz's subjects, with their formidable facial hair and self-published protest literature, fit right in with the radicals of the secular New Left.
"This proves once again that the mobilization of the people is a formidable source of democracy," said a protest leader, the former Prime Minister Moustapha Niasse, sitting with other leaders in the dense crowd.
The opposition has threatened to pick up the pace of protests, but faces a formidable opponent in a president who has consolidated his power.
Disturbed by a protest movement that briefly seemed formidable and a slowing economy, Putin turned to a mishmash of nationalism, conservative values, Russian Orthodoxy, and a fear of the corrupting influence of the degenerate West.
This is Glass's most formidable score, with minimalist processes acquiring symphonic heft: the "Protest" scene of Act II is driven by a grandly plunging, minor-mode theme, recalling the opening of Mahler's First Symphony.
To amplify the street protests, the Internet Defense League, which is the formidable network of websites that emerged victorious from the now-infamous SOPA blackout, has raised the "Cat Signal" -- its warning beacon for the Internet.
