Sentence examples for sufficiently formidable from inspiring English sources
He described the operation as mainly one of deterrence, to pose a sufficiently formidable threat that would make any would-be attackers realize that their chances of a successful strike were practically nonexistent.
In "Frances and Bernard" Ms. Bauer attempts to walk a tricky line, giving her characters enough life of their own to seem more than historical glosses, while borrowing from Lowell and O'Connor's stature so that Bernard and Frances become sufficiently formidable literary figures to carry the show.
In a letter sent to NSABP and University of Pittsburgh officials yesterday, NCI officials explained that "the numerous scientific concerns... are sufficiently formidable that the NCI will not commit to the funding of this particular trial".
Unfortunately, they did not provide for sufficiently strong supervision of this formidable and far-flung intelligence operation — to check the well-known tendency of all such agencies, operating in secrecy and under murky rules, to abuse their powers.
When his power had grown sufficiently for him to risk a final showdown with the formidable Tatars, he first defeated them in battle and then slaughtered all those taller than the height of a cart axle.
Brought up in Europe, she clashed with her formidable mother-in-law, Abigail, who questioned whether she held sufficiently American values.
His skeptical Russian detective, Arkady Renko, is a hero sufficiently sturdy and wittily invented to carry a plot whose detours adorn, without slowing, the formidable momentum the author maintains.
Was it sufficiently filmic?
"I'm sufficiently embarrassed".
