Sentence examples for more formidable as from inspiring English sources

Its $16.3 billion in market value would not overwhelm investment bankers, but its $150 billion in debt is more formidable, as are its pension and worker health care liabilities.

The Williams sisters were more formidable as a team, rolling past Spain's Anabel Medina Garrigues and Virginia Ruano Pascual, 6-2, 6-0.

Yes, the Europeans have been more formidable as a group than the Internationals, but the Internationals have had plenty of hall-of-fame talent with players like Ernie Els, Vijay Singh, Greg Norman, Retief Goosen, Ángel Cabrera and Nick Price.

When I interviewed Kevin Weeks in Fight the guy who had been working with Whitey Bulger, the Boston Irish Mafia guy—I guarantee you he is much more formidable as an older man than he was at the prime of his crime career, and that's fucking scary.

Another possibility is that the decline in the per-cell probability of spread is the result of the simple geometrical constraints posed to the escape of cells from the primary mass (Padera et al, 2002), which become more formidable as tumours increase in size.

"We recognize that the Yankees are a more formidable team as a result of this trade," Larry Lucchino, the Red Sox' president, said last night.

"With the very real potential for a more full-blown civil war breaking out in the wake of a substantial reduction of the US military presence in Iraq, Shia and Kurds appreciate that the increased ability of Sunni Arabs to organise politically and assemble in larger armed formations as a result of such cooperation could confront them with a considerably more formidable challenge as time goes on".

Intraplate seismicity poses a more formidable threat, as it can be much more powerful than interplate seismicity and is usually associated with landslides, subsidence, and even soil liquefaction.

And even if it was indeed Iraq that changed Mr Qaddafi's mind, it is not clear that the war has changed the minds of more formidable regimes such as those in Iran and North Korea.

The rolls of wire will in due course be replaced by ever more formidable barriers, just as the barbed wire dividing East and West Berlin became a concrete wall in 1961, only to fall in 1989.

If the speed of advancement in this area continues apace, even some of the more formidable challenges, such as single strand sequencing and the $1,000 genome, might be overcome not just in our lifetimes, but within the foreseeable future.