Vice President Dick Cheney is assembling a powerful parallel White House staff, including a mini-National Security Council and domestic policy team, to support his formidable role in shaping the Bush agenda and brokering it on Capitol Hill.
Nevertheless, the major formulation of his religious thought followed customary models, dictated by his formidable role in Buddhist history.
This is a Spurs team winning with second round picks Matt Bonner and DeJuan Blair, along with undrafted Gary Neal and supposedly washed-up Antonio McDyess all playing formidable roles in only the way Popovich could have foreseen.
Whatever the vocal issues with Mr. Calleja's Hoffmann, he withstood the pressure of singing this formidable role for the first time in a major new production at the Met, and saved the day.
In the play, Katherine -- portrayed by Tony- and Emmy-winning Tyne Daly in perhaps her most formidable role -- visits the former lover of her late son 20 years after his death, only to find him now married to another man and raising a small child.
This formidable role, sometimes called the Russian Otello, should still suit his heroic tenor voice.
Most striking has been Ms. Graham's recent evolution beyond parts like the sprightly Cherubino from Mozart's "Nozze di Figaro" and into more attention-grabbing characters like the title roles of "The Merry Widow" and Offenbach's "La Belle Hélène," as well as the formidable role of Dido in Berlioz's "Troyens," which she sang for the first time in October at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris.
Next Thursday that formidable role is taken over by the fine young lyric tenor Stephen Costello, who made an impressive Met debut in the small role of Arturo.
And Ms. Barron, a poised young actress, is a striking presence, performing more than creditably in a formidable role.
Formidables aircraft played a key role in the Battle of Cape Matapan in early 1941, and they subsequently provided cover for Allied ships and attacked Axis forces until their carrier was badly damaged by German dive bombers in May.
