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Mr. Kelly's challenge is made more daunting by allegations that the ticket-fixing investigation was plagued by leaks to the police union from the department's Internal Affairs Bureau.

New England's task was rendered all the more daunting by the freezing cold and high winds that made it difficult to throw the ball downfield.

He called it "one of the biggest performances of my career," made more daunting by new choreography which he compared, in its opening sequence, to being blasted out of a cannon.

It is in austere monochrome, made even more daunting by Diaz's love of darkness in all senses – his unhurried, unlit sequences are something to compare with Pedro Costa's sepulchral images of Fontainhas in Lisbon or Tsai Ming-liang's street scenes.

It is an undertaking made much more daunting by his projection that by that year, 90 percent of Roscoe students will be from low socioeconomic and English-language-learning backgrounds, making them some of the most challenging — and expensive — to educate.

The group acknowledged that the deficit-reduction panel faces a significant challenge, made even more daunting by its Nov. 23 deadline, and several senators said the committee would have to rely on previous proposals like those set out by the Simpson-Bowles commission and the "Gang of Six," the self-appointed group of senators who sought a solution on the deficit this spring.

This shtick, the more you think about it, seems even more daunting than the by-the-numbers pedantry of Ms. Ray and Ms. Stewart, since Mr. Ho is all about je ne sais quoi, which he calls by a Chamorro verb, "gai".

The state-by-state landscape facing Mr. Romney is more daunting than he expected by this stage in the contest.

As long as there is a critical mass of Palestinians who continue to deny the legitimacy of the State of Israel, as Hamas does, the dilemma the peacemakers face will remain even more daunting than that faced by Mr. Bronner.

In a sense, Roberts' challenge was far more daunting than that faced by Billy Graham, Roberts' contemporary.

But we do need wellsprings that could fortify us to take risks even more daunting than those taken by the embattled farmers of 1775.