Ahold is 115 years old, with sales estimated (before the scandal) at euro77 billion in 2002.Rather like Kenneth Lay at Enron, and Dennis Kozlowski at Tyco, another scandal-hit American firm, Ahold's now-departing boss, Cees van der Hoeven, won a formidable reputation from turning a dull company into a growth machine.
Yet for all the Big Three's individual talent, Bosh has never advanced beyond the first round of the playoffs, James has never won a title and Boston and Orlando remain formidable competition in the East.
Johnson admitted that Cipriani was disappointed to be left out of the starting XV but insisted that he had picked the team that he thought had the best chance of winning against a formidable All Blacks line-up, and that Cipriani may yet finish the game on the pitch.
Dame Maggie Smith, probably now doomed to be remembered in her Downton Abbey incarnation as the formidable Dowager Duchess, won a special Theatre Icon award.
The Knox name had been celebrated in Oxford for generations, Lee reminds us, and its owner's brain was formidable (she had won a scholarship, "for the best candidate in her year").
Against formidable competition, Ehle had won a BAFTA award, the British Emmy, for her television performance as Elizabeth Bennet in "Pride and Prejudice".
But Mr. Golden was considered the most formidable because he had already won a City Council seat twice.
"She's won a lot of titles and has been No. 1. She's really a formidable champion.
Her tactical skills are formidable she fought and won a sharp battle to get rid of the country's high-profile foreign minister, Vygaudas Usackas (who is now the European Union's envoy to Afghanistan).That leaves her (at least in her own eyes) as the unquestioned leader of Lithuania's foreign policy.
Although she had yet to reach the megastar level of Sorenstam — the only woman to shoot a round of 59, who won 72 tournaments, including 10 majors — Ochoa was a formidable competitor who won four consecutive L.P.G.A. player of the year titles.
Mr. Pawlenty "has respect from people on both sides of the aisle, and if he can win a primary, would have formidable appeal in a general election," says Rick Davis, who managed John McCain's presidential run last year.
