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Blazing skies across the UK and the two most-watched TV programmes of the year provided formidable alternatives to cinemagoing at the weekend.

Although the French troops in North Africa were widely spread out, they numbered nearly 120,000 and could have provided formidable opposition had they continued to resist the Allies.

They also provided formidable support to the evening's soloist, Denis Matsuev, who delivered an exceptional account, in terms of power and brilliance, of Liszt's Piano Concerto No 2. Technically commanding, he maintained beauty of tone whatever the force employed or the speed with which virtuoso passages were attacked.

While issues of washability have provided formidable challenges for van Dongen, she sees them as means to collaborate further with industries outside her own.

And China is providing formidable low-cost competition.

Rules restrain arbitrary behaviour, but they also can provide formidable roadblocks to achievement.

GroupMe for iPhone is similarly elegant in its design and provides formidable competition for Fast Society.

Might be worth hanging round in the bar after, though - Andrew Marr, Rose Tremain and John Hegley, all of whom also feature, could provide formidable backup.

Yet in this country vested interests and an outdated, misguided ideology provide formidable obstacles to parental judgment being introduced into our education system.

Gillette's scale still provides formidable advantages (wide retail distribution, superior patented technology through large R.&D. investment), and its well-known brand (reinforced through mass-media advertising) creates a strong habit in loyal customers acquired early in their lives.

He has had public spats with his brother, whose support is by no means guaranteed, but his family name and connections could provide formidable help even without the incumbent.