Sentence examples for proved as formidable from inspiring English sources

Storey quickly proved as formidable on a bike as she had been in the water.

But determining which scientific and technological inventions merited distinction as the greatest breakthroughs of the last century proved as formidable and fraught an assignment as, say, choosing the greatest baseball players of the last hundred years.

Orb, Oxbow and Palace Malice may prove as formidable a Triple Crown class as the 2007 bunch.

But the cost and complexity of rebuilding Afghanistan could prove as formidable as the effort to oust the Taliban and capture or kill Mr. bin Laden.

IOWA 78, IOWA ST. 53: Iowa and Reggie Evans proved to be just as formidable as Iowa State Coach Larry Eustachy had feared.

But again the Patriots' defense (and snowy conditions) proved too formidable, as they lost 20 3 in the divisional round of the playoffs.

But his track record overall was proving formidable, as many of his early investments were gobbled by the tech giants at prices five times what he put in, including Vudu, Vivu, Bix and Milo.

To prove that Army red tape can be equally as formidable as that in the Navy, Mr. Kahn tells about being ordered to Fort Riley, Kansas, to make a report on the Cavalry.

An ungainly, propeller-driven craft that flies as slowly as 80 miles per hour and is operated by remote control, the RQ-1 Predator has nonetheless proved a formidable weapon as the war enters its most complex phase: the hunt for the leadership of Al Qaeda and the Taliban.

The much-despised Turk proved a formidable enemy, as did the flies and the dysentery.

By Michael Sragow A pair of films in the boxed set "Alexander Korda's Private Lives" (Criterion Eclipse) prove that the producer-director Korda and the idiosyncratic star Charles Laughton were, in their prime, as formidable a filmmaking team as John Ford and John Wayne or Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro.