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While M&S is one of Britain's longest-standing and best-loved retailers, in incurring the wrath of Mumsnet it is taking on a formidable enemy.

Christophe Honoré's radically unsentimental family portrait, "Making Plans for Léna," takes on a formidable challenge: How do you prevent viewers from losing patience with a central character whose neurotic, self-destructive behavior is so infuriating that the impulse is to flee?

Stanwyck, always one to put on a formidable front, married again, in 1939, this time to Robert Taylor.

Each can count on a formidable defense.

But Mr. Gurría and the O.E.C.D. have taken on a formidable challenge.

As in 1987, they can call on a formidable team spirit, forged in the face of adversity by manager Pressley.

The Islanders are on the verge of a formidable National Hockey League record entering Friday's game.

The clip showed a hands-on battle in a crowded square with Evans, Mackie and Scarlett Johansson as Black Widow taking on Crossbones – a formidable foe with a powerful punch.

This year, the 100th anniversary of Britten's birth, was a fitting time for Mr. Tritle to take on such a formidable work.

Drilling for oil was going on at a formidable rate, with 3,099 oil rigs operating in this country, according to figures from Baker Hughes.

"Finally here's an entity with the reach, resources and wherewithal to take on iTunes as a formidable competitor by tying it into search and Android mobile platform.