Against that daunting backdrop, other factors — pre-existing monolithic contracts, a fallow farm system, freakish injuries — combined to stack the deck against Collins and his team.
Surrey gave it a go in reply, Steven Davies and Zafar Ansari both passing 50, but they fell short of that daunting total.
When that's your labor model, drawing Xs and Os, studying game tape and chasing recruits 16 hours a day and getting paid $5 million a year doesn't seem that daunting.
Actually, it shouldn't be that daunting.
On the one hand it is an original setting and some people find that daunting.
For guys like that, it is daunting but not that daunting.
But simple systems like the one Mr. Snowden referred to are not that daunting to install yourself, and manufacturers say most of their customers do just that.
"If you came from a background where higher education is normal, the idea of taking out a loan for a course is not that daunting.
Each of them is in peril, each frightened by a direct question concerning her raison d'être (that daunting phrase they are just beginning to hear).
Now, a new method developed by scientists at the Wyss Institute and Harvard Medical School HMSS) finally brings that daunting task into the realm of possibility using evolving genetic barcodes that actively record the process of cell division in developing mice, enabling the lineage of every cell in a mouse's body to be traced back to its single-celled origin.
"AstraZeneca and BAE are both in sectors where US groups have lots of cash and where they are looking to make acquisitions," said Mike Thompson, managing director of strategy and risk at S&P. "AstraZeneca, for example, has a value of about $65bn [£43bn], but this is no longer that daunting for US firms.
