Sentence examples for formidable resistance from inspiring English sources

In the end, Mora was unable to overcome formidable resistance from several of the most powerful figures in the government.

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He encountered formidable resistance when he tried to attract the right-wing Republican electorate in early-primary states, especially when it came to social issues and immigration.

The New York region has posed a tougher challenge, and Westchester County has perhaps put up the most formidable resistance of all.

It is hard to imagine that landowners, who sacrificed so much to revive a culture and way of life put under existential threat by the mine, will allow its reopening to occur without mounting formidable resistance.

Within a few unlikely seconds, a pair of size 10 shoes have become the most destructive weapon the people of Iraq have managed to throw at the occupying powers, after nearly six years of occupation and formidable resistance.

The chances of their completing the pattern with a six on Wednesday would appear remote against opponents whose most formidable strength is a redoubtable resistance to would-be invaders of their penalty area.

But there were signs that the government had aroused a formidable opposition among aid groups and unions, which could further galvanize resistance.

Mutiny, as the British discovered a century later in 1857, was a formidable weapon of resistance at the disposal of the soldiers they had trained.

There may be little that's cheering in the conditions depicted, yet Sissako's film revels in the joy of people, of music and of film, making Timbuktu a formidable statement of resistance in itself.

In this case, Syriza, with the freedom it will have as an opposition party and boosted by the swelling current of support that swept it to second place on Sunday, will be in a position to become a formidable force of resistance.