Sentence examples for formidable sums from inspiring English sources

They also wonder if any change can provide enough resources to enable candidates to compete with those who can raise formidable sums without federal help.

He has pledged to spend millions by the primary election in September — not at Mr. Bloomberg's level, but still a formidable sum against opponents who, lacking personal fortunes, have agreed to abide by spending limits in exchange for public matching funds.

Still, this week Zopp's campaign leaked that it had already raised $665,000, a formidable sum.

The impression remained throughout his life, even among many of his supporters on the left, that he was somehow less than the sum of his formidable parts.

The complex of policies that pushed the Philippines into the economic quagmire over the last 30 years can be summed up by a formidable term: structural adjustment.

Nothing better sums up the low-key but formidable political power of Hensley & Company than its response to two recent ballot initiatives.

By any standard, the sums being raised this early in the campaign are formidable.

While the sum total of the translation of the Zuck/Sandberg interview is a formidable beast of text, it's definitely worth the read.

Such sums may be largely guesswork, but the obstacles to trading are clearly formidable and costly.Asset managers in Britain see discriminatory taxes as the biggest obstacle to selling their wares in other EU countries.

Those very simple, bleakly articulate words sum up the hopes and hopelessness that infuse this shy and formidable little play.

However, the sum of the 'progressive left' (Labour, SNP, Plaid Cymru and Greens) adds up to an obstacle that seems too formidable for Cameron to overcome".