After that, under Fazluddin Agha, a formidable local governor, security improved, and foreign money has been poured into opening schools and clinics.Mr Agha was killed by a suicide-bomber in January, but his influence may help explain the relatively restrained reaction in Panjwai itself to the atrocity.
Dortmund, under Thomas Tuchel, should be a formidable foe, but they'll probably need a year or two to regroup.
But the generally sparse presence of American forces in the city has made it difficult to restore order, a formidable challenge under the best of circumstances.
Having moved on from posts at Saks Fifth Avenue (where he was the advertising art director) and at Harper's Bazaar, he was now — under the aegis of Alexander Liberman — a formidable fixture at Vogue.
Once a formidable kingdom under Tomislav in the tenth century, a naval power in the sixteenth and seventeenth, and an awakening national entity in the nineteenth, it had to endure a thousand years of foreign meddling, subjugation, incursions, and outright wars before being recognized in 1992 as a distinct entity.
Now the company hopes to complete the restoration under the leadership of Carl-Henric Svanberg, a formidable Swedish businessman who joined the company last April as chief executive.
Increased use of antenatal clinics by vulnerable women and the reduction of drug stock-outs, two key policy strategies under the RBM initiative, remain a formidable challenge for the public health sector in its current and future efforts to reduce malaria burden [ 12].
We don't under-estimate Hamas' power… Hamas is a formidable military machine".
Although Gates, chairman of the Afro-American studies department at Harvard, never manages to identify Hannah Crafts -- who probably wrote under a pseudonym -- he presents a formidable array of evidence authenticating her story.
