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At any rate, Niven-as-narrator is a charming scamp, and refreshingly the plot refrains from taking the obvious path of marrying him off to his 'snapdragon', R.J.Mitchell's formidable secretary Miss Harper.
In most Bugs Bunny cartoons, he is pitted against a foe, usually human, while formidable in their own way, are obviously not in his league when it comes to brains.
And Anjelica Huston is subtle and formidable as Carrie Chapman Catt.
Despite a very odd direction(with titillation asides), this is a formidable western with a sturdy cast.
Although, Tanner is the main obstacle, Valdez is also challenged by Tanner's formidable collection of professional gunmen assembled by his experienced right-hand man, El Segundo (Barton Heyman).
In this respect, the international community has a formidable instrument at its disposal.
Stiglitz’s pronouncements offered formidable support to those who opposed IMF rigor, indeed, and at the very least they confused the public and policymakers alike.
In the firing line, orthodoxy was defended by IMF chief surgeon Stanley Fischer, the first deputy director and an economist with as formidable an academic reputation as Stiglitz.
Its economic clout remains formidable, and its commercial and cultural ties to the West are broad and varied.
Thus, the current conflict is essentially a pre-emptive war by Hamas – aggravated by lawlessness and banditry, clashing free-lance militias, tribes, and families, and a spiral of senseless massacres – to prevent Fatah from being turned by the international community into a formidable challenger to its democratic right to govern.
With the current much more open regime in Teheran, Riyadh can also be convinced that the dangers from an Iranian-controlled Shi'a entity in southern Iraq are less formidable now than they were in 1991.
Moreover, in educating the public we confront formidable forces: cultural icons who are as bronze as the statuary in the Louvre, the sheer pleasure of being in the sun, and the perceived incremental health benefits of ultraviolet radiation.
No other institution can fulfill the Bank’s formidable potential as a center of knowledge and a coordinator of development policies.
The regime also requires firms to file at least three online tax returns per month (37 per year) into the GST Network (GSTN), the GST’s formidable technical backbone.
Those that do often become formidable competitors in the international arena.
Given changes to the economic environment, the challenge ahead is certainly formidable.
Even now, Palestine is a relatively minor security challenge for Israel; the more formidable threats, which have compelled Israel to build up its military considerably, come from the Arab states that surround it.
The UN has given the ICTY three excellent prosecutors: Richard Goldstone from the South African Constitutional Court, Louise Arbour from the Canadian Supreme Court, and Del Ponte, a formidable prosecutor from Switzerland.
While China may be a ravenous importer of Latin American commodities, it is also a formidable competitor.
Santos has overcome formidable challenges, and the next one is a forthcoming plebiscite, where the Colombian people, one hopes, will recognize that their country has furnished a conflict-ridden world with a new model for peace.
Nouy (with whom I have worked) is a knowledgeable and capable supervisor, equipped with a formidable combination of determination and charm.
Psychoanalysis grew into a formidable, intimidating logic.
Far from improving citizens’ access to health care, weak IP protections are exacerbating India’s formidable health-care challenges.
The Islamic Brotherhood in Egypt, despite being banned, is a formidable organization.
Becoming a committed European player, fostering foreign direct investment, including venture businesses, promoting financial services and IT resulted in a formidable brain drain reversal for Ireland.
What began as a simple way for households to boost incomes – by renting out one’s apartment or car – has become a formidable disruptive force.
Opposition to environmental action – from the fossil-fuel industry, political parties, and portions of the media – has been formidable.
This cyber army now amounts to a well-oiled machine with a formidable presence on Twitter, Facebook, and WhatsApp.
In place of a president whose only qualification for the office was his father’s name, we now have one whose intelligence and vision overcame the formidable obstacle of being the exotically named son of an African Muslim.
Whereas China is a formidable exporter of manufactured goods, India has acquired a global reputation for exporting modern services.
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