Sentence examples for formidable tool from inspiring English sources
He promoted his inexperienced offspring into his formidable tool.
The internet paints a damning picture, but more importantly proves itself to be a formidable tool in the fight against criminality that might otherwise go unnoticed.
The takeaway from this is that he might actually have a hit record that could be a formidable tool against his father and Empire.
As for the "indistinguishability of lies and truth," the Internet is also a formidable tool for tracking down information, precisely in the interest of distinguishing lies from truth.
While the right of first refusal is a formidable tool, it is also an expensive one; most condominiums are hardly in a position to block sales they don't approve of by buying apartments they don't really need.
He said the posting of customs inspectors abroad, a 17-month-old program known as the Container Security Initiative, had "emerged as a formidable tool for protecting us from the threat of terrorism".
The Federal Reserve also has formidable tools at its disposal to contain the fallout from a financial crisis, as it has demonstrated repeatedly in recent years.
After mid-term elections in November handed control of the Senate to the Republicans, and solidified the right's majority in the House of Representatives, Mr Obama has been left with the (formidable) tools available to even lame-duck American presidents: his ability to convene debates and his power to sign executive orders and take administrative actions.
The microbial CRISPR systems enable adaptive defense against mobile elements and also provide formidable tools for genome engineering.
But governments today have formidable tools of electronic surveillance at their disposal, and it would be unwise to assume that virtual currencies are beyond their reach.
Vaguely defined and arbitrarily applied, it's something of a Swiss army knife in the government's formidable tool-belt of repression, a law that has been repeatedly used to stifle freedom of expression and crack down on dissent, ultimately fomenting the (increasingly rickety) culture of compliant, docile self-censorship that has permeated the nation's political life.
