The St . LouisCardinals are too formidable an opponent for the Cubs to be able to tarry in their unlikely pursuit of first place.
No wonder Adler leaves the country, declaring him too formidable an opponent, even though she knows she has beaten him in this encounter.
Joseph R. Kyrillos Jr., chairman of the New Jersey Republican Party, blamed a weak economy and the perception that, until his ethics problems snowballed and forced him to withdraw from the race on Sept. 30, Mr. Torricelli was too formidable an opponent to be beaten by a political neophyte.
While Rome realised that Arns was too formidable and celebrated a figure to cross directly, it signalled its disapproval of his work by targeting those close to him, removing his confessor, the Dominican biblical scholar Frei Gilberto Gorgulho, from his posts at the archdiocesan seminary.
The union was too formidable, there was an election coming up and the politicians weren't going to buck the police union, and they didn't want to be seen going against a cop when the person who got killed was just a black thug.
MoMA officials let it be known that the folk museum's faceted bronze-alloy facade didn't fit in with the Modern's glass aesthetic and that its floors didn't line up with MoMA's, as if that constituted a design obstacle too formidable to overcome.
Mr. Salazar is viewed by many Democrats and analysts as too formidable for his primary opponent, Mike Miles, an educator and military veteran running to the left of Mr. Salazar.
However, the sum of the 'progressive left' (Labour, SNP, Plaid Cymru and Greens) adds up to an obstacle that seems too formidable for Cameron to overcome".
By the time you've worked your way through these later sections, you've been given such profound access to the poet's life, and gained so many insights into his poetic language and mission, that the oscillations and conflicts that may once have made Rilke's work look too formidable seem to have resolved themselves into an organic harmony.
We who voted for hope and change saw you obstructed by a force in Congress whose obstinance has proved too formidable amidst your noble efforts to "change the tone" in Washington.
