Sentence examples for formidable wall from inspiring English sources

But the crusade against excessive fees could run up against a formidable wall.

DAVOS, Switzerland — World leaders turned up the pressure on Europe on Saturday to erect a more formidable wall of money against the sovereign debt crisis, warning that the euro zone continues to pose a severe threat to the global economy.

In Beowulf Boritt's effective set, a massive wall of earth and stone blocks out half the blue sky; it soon becomes an emblem of the formidable wall that the brothers have built between their deepest feelings and each other.

More importantly, however, this was a genuine team effort – the entire Real side dropped back into their own half and formed a formidable wall Bayern were unable to penetrate.

Two senators proposed setting up a global equivalent of C-Span, the public affairs cable channel, as a way of dismantling what they called the formidable wall of secrecy that shields decision making at several leading international agencies.

It would become the basis for the formidable wall of amplifiers used by Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page and almost every other major rock guitarist in the '60s and '70s and by the next generation of guitarists as well, including Kurt Cobain, Eddie Van Halen and Slash.

Guiding listeners through anecdotes alternately hilarious and moving, and accompanied subtly and stylishly on the piano by Craig Terry, she infused this sometimes frustratingly stable material with nuance and sophistication, filament-thin pianissimos and formidable walls of sound, which excavated fresh emotion in songs that she lovingly called "musical comfort food, mac-and-cheese music".

I took a stroll around the ballpark, past young trees, pleasant benches, formidable walls and doors — not many opportunities for a kid from Corona, like Omar Minaya, to slip inside to watch a few innings after school, on his life's path to becoming general manager.

The formidable walls appear to grow organically from its rocky perch.

Those once-formidable walls of denial came tumbling down Thursday with the announcement by Major League Baseball that 5 to 7percentt of its steroid tests had come back positive.

The Republicans, on the other hand, failed to make inroads among minority voters, including Asian-Americans, and are facing a formidable generational wall.