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And so given these formidable obstacles, one might wonder and worry whether one will ever be able to decipher the Indus script.
And eventually you get to places where it is formidable and dangerous and unfortunately slides just don't do justice.
That means I need to know how I tick, when I collapse, where my formidable points are, where my weaker points are.
This high school dropout died at the age of 82, a formidable intellectual, cofounder and first CEO of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and founder of Schocken Books, an acclaimed imprint that was later acquired by Random House.
Now mix this in with camouflaging cells, jet propulsion and a razor-sharp beak, and you have all the makings of a formidable predator.
These formidable fighters faced off against the greatest champions of myth: Heracles, Theseus, and Achilles.
I don't know what cat gut is, but let's assume it's formidable.
Now these efforts are small, they're often underfunded, and they face formidable opposition.
This sounds formidable, but brilliant engineers, colleagues of mine at JPL, came up with a fabulous design for how to do that and it looks like this.
You should understand that Veronica, like a lot of patients that I have the privilege of caring for, is a dignified person, a formidable presence, a personality that's larger than life, but here she was doubled over in pain sitting on my exam table.
Its position at the southern entrance of the Dardanelles strait would’ve made a formidable strategic location for both defense and trade.
They use these formidable devices like scoops, to remove the sperm from previous males that the female has mated with.
A section of the old walls collapsed, but even in their death throes they proved formidable.
The wall was formidable but not invincible.
Back in Paris, the lovelorn Pierre was waiting, and the pair quickly married and became a formidable scientific team.
Their legs grew thick, their feet sturdy, and newly developed thigh muscles turned them into formidable runners.
Having the convenience and accessibility of regular screening options that are affordable, noninvasive and could provide results much sooner, would provide us with a formidable weapon in the fight against cancer.
Although she’s the formidable khatun of the Golden Horde, a huge kingdom in the Mongolian Empire, Boraqchin has a hands-on approach to ruling.
It's the formidable thing that is changing entertainment now.
So Andrew Lyne had a very formidable task.
But this journey faces a formidable obstacle: gravity.
In an early work, "Self Portrait with Velvet Dress," the focus is on her strong brows, facial hair, long neck and formidable stare.
Able to exert over 300 lbs. of pressure in one bone-crushing bite and sniff out prey more than a mile away, these formidable predators didn’t have much competition.
The truth was that Bai Su Zhen was an immortal snake with formidable magical powers.
Having made their home in the Wild Fields north of the Black Sea, these cossacks— derived from a Turkic word for "free man"— are renowned as one of Europe’s most formidable military forces.
The formidable Viking longship had its origins in the humble dugout canoe, or log boat.
Yet a rift had grown between these two formidable forces.
While this may sound formidable, the slow mutation rate is actually a promising sign when it comes to disarming them.
In spite of Rudy Ray Moore's very brief cameo, this movie is a work of supreme self-indulgence on Ron Hall's part - he clearly thinks he is a formidable actor, and must also believe he possesses superior writing and directing skills - but the movie is so unbelievably inept that it's hard to believe he'd actually want people to see it for fear of being brutally excoriated like I'm doing right now.
Garp is born to a formidable unmarried mother, Jenny Fields, played by Glenn Close.(The
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