Generally, it was a formidable year for new music — so much so that my ten notable recordings are entirely contemporary, with dead composers demoted to the honorable-mention category.
"Raising the age-limit to 39, the age at which Dylan died, has opened the field and given us an extraordinarily strong shortlist, but even then this is a formidable year," said chair of judges Peter Florence, founder of the Hay festival.
However, the Betsiboka and Tsiribihina Rivers are far more formidable year-round than is the Sakamena and the even-smaller Ihazoara River.
No nonincumbent in the history of contemporary U.S. presidential politics ever looked so formidable three years before an election.
If the Rangers keep him from returning to Pittsburgh, they would take a chunk out of the lineup of a division rival, one that looks as if it will be formidable for years to come.
The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (also called Superfund), providing billions of dollars for cleaning up abandoned waste dumps, was first established in 1980, but the number of those waste sites and the difficulties of the cleanups remained formidable for years thereafter.
"No nonincumbent in the history of contemporary U.S. presidential politics ever looked so formidable three years before an election," the article details.
Well, the SNP had the best thing about the election in the formidable 20-year-old Mhairi Black, the politics student who unseated Douglas Alexander.
Spurred by the murders of her father and brother at the hands of a rival clan, Rita, now a formidable 17-year-old embodied by Veronica D'Agostino, seeks out the prosecutor and offers to testify against the killers and their associates.
