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But realists in the party acknowledge that the referendum will pose formidable political odds.

Even separate but coordinated systems, the model experts think more likely, pose formidable challenges.

The Red Sox remain questionable, but certainly the Athletics and the Mariners pose formidable hurdles for the Yankees to become the first team since the Yankees of the early 1960's to play in four successive World Series.

Big waste-collection companies might pose formidable competition if they pursued junk hauling, but they haven't so far, and some of them openly disdain the idea of collecting junk from inside homes.

Congo has a terrible reputation among investors, and distributing the electricity across thousands of kilometres, much of it jungle, would pose formidable problems.Aggreko, a company based in Scotland, is the world's biggest supplier of temporary electricity in the shape of back-up generators.

Chemical and physical instability at both electrodes pose formidable challenges to development of practical lithium metal batteries.

The "Eroica" poses formidable challenges for a young orchestra.

The Book of Mormon poses formidable problems for scholars.

Still, the work poses formidable challenges that this production, directed by David McVicar, brilliantly solved.

But even for an old hand, the Met poses formidable challenges.

Europe has swept away many internal borders, and taken on tasks that once posed formidable challenges to sovereign tiddlers, such as running a currency.