"We, the American people, clearly see the daunting forces we will undoubtedly face: terrorists, crime, drug gangs, the possibility of Euro-style debt riots, civil unrest or natural disaster".
Her characters (usually female) are frequently assailed by daunting forces — horrible men, all too often; but also self-doubt, faint-heartedness, conventionality, and the limitations of bourgeois Australian society during the fifties and sixties.
The leader of the Syrian rebels, he faces the daunting task of forging a cohesive force from the thousands of fractious, fiercely independent rebel brigades arrayed against the still formidable military of President Bashar al-Assad.
The list of questions that various working committees will be looking at in preparation is daunting; the task forces organized to confront them run the gamut of the community, in great, fascinating detail: statistics and machine learning, sponsored research, the colleges, internationalization, online learning, on and on.
Though such talk is widespread, it has not daunted the Clinton forces.
The task force's search for Saddam was, from the beginning, daunting.
But the dangers associated with the creation of a credible U.N. force are daunting, and the Security Council is right to move ahead with caution.
The task forces on hoarding are finding their mandates daunting.
But the political forces that would rise in opposition are daunting.
But the election commission had previously announced that concerns over security and the weather — the snow and cold are still daunting in April — had forced it to delay the election until Aug. 20.
