Sentence examples for over a formidable from inspiring English sources

Boehner now presided over a formidable majority; two months earlier, in the midterm elections, the G.O.P. expanded its control of the House by thirteen seats and captured the Senate by winning nine seats there.

A fat, old woman who suddenly drums her heels, thrusts her hands up and sits back down might get a standing ovation over a formidable, gifted young dancer because she nailed it.

A few miles outside the town, approachable only by walking across a deep gorge, we found the idyllic oasis of El Divisadero, presided over by a formidable 80-year-old, Teresa Gutiérrez.

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The crews were massacred and Trimmer taken over and converted into a formidable pirate ship.

Presided over by Jack Trimarco, a formidable, beetle-browed profiler for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, "Fake Out" preys on its contestants' pride that they're hard to fool.

"Since Mr. [Alan] Lafley took over, P&G is a formidable competitor," Gentner concedes.

Though she expresses respect for Mr Kohl's "outstanding" achievements, last week Mrs Merkel announced that "Helmut Kohl's time as an active politician is over".But Mr Kohl, backed by a formidable network of staunch loyalists and a growing band of backbenchers, has no intention of fading away.

Largely abandoned by the mainstream Yes movement, Hope Over Fear has developed into a formidable subculture of its own accord, with a largely working class base who were deeply invested in last year's referendum and now want independence at all costs.

The battle for posterity is far from over, and Hirschman has a formidable ally in Adelman, a Princeton historian who knows how to construct a narrative.

As Nokia's new chief executive, Stephen Elop, takes over this month, he faces a formidable task: to regain the company's lost ground in the smartphone segment of the global phone market, especially in the United States, while maintaining its worldwide dominance as the largest maker of mobile phones.