"G.M. is entering the most aggressive rollout of new vehicles in its history, and this acquisition will make us an even more formidable competitor by ensuring that competitive financing is available to our customers and dealers around the world," Dan Ammann, the company's chief financial officer, said in a statement.
He won with 54percentt of the votes in 1998 against Mr. Vallone, but he faced a much more formidable campaign this year by Mr. Golisano.
Katherine Eyres at LexisPSL says: The reforms proposed by the Leveson report are about as palatable as the press and the politicians could have hoped for: a more formidable regulator underpinned by legislation, with self-regulation remaining intact and checks and balances to maintain independence from parliamentary and press interference.
But stirrups also made cavalry lances far more formidable, since a rider, by bracing his feet in the stirrups, could put the momentum of a galloping horse and rider behind the thrust of his spearhead.
It's a human concept that became conventional wisdom.' " To Icahn, it may have seemed that the roadblocks he faced were not a sign of a sound bureaucracy but, rather, evidence of a power play by more formidable special interests, in the form of the ethanol lobby and Big Oil.
The Mystics are also led by a more formidable force, Chamique Holdsclaw, than the Liberty faced in Tamika Catchings.
The oil-for-security compact, however, was underpinned by a more formidable alliance that worked effectively against common foes ranging from Soviet Communism to Saddam Hussein's revisionism.
But I have a feeling the scene wouldn't work if the boyish Mr. Hanks were replaced by someone more formidable, say, Frank Langella or Clint Eastwood or Humphrey Bogart.
A more formidable movement has been organized by a group of subscribers in Washington, D.C., who call themselves the Committee of Ten Million to Oppose All-Number Calling.
