Sentence examples for has formidable powers from inspiring English sources

Unlike counterparts in many democracies, Japan's upper house has formidable powers.

Even without resorting to direct censorship, the state has formidable powers for controlling popular music and shaping tastes.

Marina Granovskaia, the long-time head of Abramovich's family office, does its negotiating and, the agents will tell you, has formidable powers in that field and a fierce grasp of financial detail.

Stephen Fender writes: My former colleague Mark Kinkead-Weekes (obituary, 18 April) had formidable powers as a lecturer, which were evident at Edinburgh University, where he arrived in 1956 and spent several years.

Mr. Peterson is a musician with brute force who, like his idol Art Tatum, never seems to be straining, and he was at his best on uptempo and blues numbers that showed he still had formidable power to shove music along.

The SEC has formidable investigatory powers and can levy substantial fines for infringements of its rules.

On paper, he has formidable constitutional powers, but his political base is so shrunken as to make them all but unusable.

That shushing sound has "formidable phonetic power," Mr. Rosten once observed in his best fancy-shmancy language.

Egypt has formidable military power and regardless of how sensitive the domestic political environment may be, Egypt has to lead.

Even with the relaxation of the assumption of complete information [6], agents are still presumed to have formidable cognitive powers.

The party — which has formidable military, political, and social-services branches — has done much to elevate the status, power, and prospects of a once-downtrodden, destitute Shiite community.