Sentence examples for not as formidable from inspiring English sources

Their defense is not as formidable or feared.

Backstage, comedians talk of hecklers not as formidable nemeses but as irksome obstacles to their work.

But the current Mets, slipping, stumbling and then finally standing, are not as formidable.

Kobets, over coffee, said that Lukashenko's power was not as formidable as it seemed.

But the other guys are not as formidable as Pujols, not even close.

Here were Officer Marvin Carraway Jr. and Officer Colin Richards, standing behind portable bulletproof shields that were not as formidable as their official name — "ballistic barrier" — might suggest.

"The army isn't as formidable as they say, and we're ready to take it on".President Umaru Yar'Adua has made calming the oil region a priority but he has moved slowly.

No. 2 Tennessee appears tired, No. 3 North Carolina does not have the talent and No. 4 Illinois is not nearly as formidable as last year.

Williams' Polly isn't quite as formidable — she needn't be a monster, but her guns aren't as blazing as they should be.

Ms. Gartland said she feared that she would be seen as someone who had hitched herself to a rising star, not as a formidable singer in her own right.

Chief among them, perhaps, is that the nation's largest local telephone companies, SBC Communications, BellSouth and Verizon Communications, are not as financially formidable as they were a few months ago.