Sentence examples for formidable witnesses from inspiring English sources

With David Remnick January 15 , 2016If Joaquín Guzmán Loera, the drug kingpin known as El Chapo, is extradited to the United States, he might face two formidable witnesses: identical twin brothers, former drug traffickers on a major scale, who gathered evidence against him for government prosecutors.

With David Remnick July 1, 2016 Daniel Zender If the drug kingpin known as El Chapo is brought to trial in the U.S., he might face two formidable witnesses: identical twin brothers, former drug traffickers on a major scale, who gathered evidence against him for government prosecutors.

But, if he ever does stand trial in the Windy City, the prosecution will have, in Vicente Zambada, a formidable witness against him.

Regarded as a leader among the camp's inmates, Aamer is an unwelcome thorn in the side of the prison authorities and a man possibly judged as a forceful personality who would make a formidable witness were he ever returned to the UK.

Watching Bobbi take the lead female role in BABY/LON is to witness a formidable talent and to speak to her is to hear a formidable intellect.

To witness the formidable imprint the Everly Brothers made on pop, simply listen to the Beatles' first No 1 hit, Please Please Me.

The charges would probably not be the ones that people outside Yugoslavia believe should be brought, and the protection of witnesses would present formidable difficulties.

What Fonar's adversaries discovered is that, with his shock of white hair, professorial demeanor and direct gaze of a small-town doctor (which he once considered becoming), Dr. Damadian can be a formidable force when he takes witness stand.

"He is very skilled on the witness stand, a formidable interviewer who burrows right in and who cannot be flustered easily and who thinks fast on his feet — he likes the battle of wits".

What makes the pope's derogatory words about grandmothers all the more shocking is that he was apparently very close to his own grandmother, from whom he has said he learned a great deal; and also because he has been a witness to the formidable campaign mounted by the grandmothers of the disappeared in his own country, Argentina, during the dirty war.

But there are formidable challenges to be overcome, as witnessed by the widespread surge in obesity that could threaten to undermine attempts to improve the chances of many people enjoying a prolonged and fulfilled old age.