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Would Japan need to become a truly independent military power, with formidable deterrent capabilities like those of the UK or France?
It could become a formidable force supporting free trade, investment, prosperity, and indeed peace in a multi-polar world.
Both countries face formidable resistance to reform from formidable vested interests and lobby groups.
This is a formidable – some would say unrealistically ambitious – agenda.
The results of the now-completed 12th Five-Year Plan were impressive – especially in light of the formidable challenge that structural change implies for any economy.
Berlusconi regards his “commercial diplomacy” as a formidable defensive weapon, which may help explain why he is not too concerned about how his actions in this area are perceived on the international front.
In developing countries, “poor quality regulation and implementation are formidable barriers to entrepreneurship and investment,” according to a World Bank report.
Of course, Capriles faces formidable obstacles.
Russia probably hacked the Democratic and Republican campaigns in the 2012 US presidential election, too, given its formidable cyber capabilities.
The challenge ahead for Macron may thus turn out to be even more formidable than the one confronted by De Gaulle.
Financing adaptation to climate will be a formidable challenge, particularly as it involves additional costs above traditional development assistance – at a time when foreign-aid budgets are under pressure.
But such dreams always hit a formidable obstacle: national rivalries that date back decades – in some cases centuries – and that repeatedly keep mutually profitable energy-integration agreements from being signed.
North Korea also has formidable conventional military capabilities, and estimates of human casualties could total as many as 25 million, depending on the types of weapons used, the geographical theater of the conflict, and the countries sucked into it.
But its enemies – not only Putin’s Russia, but also its own bureaucracy and financial oligarchy – are formidable, and it cannot defeat them alone.
But, in practice, it faces two formidable challenges.
As a key architect of the deal that ended the apartheid regime, he proved himself to be a formidable negotiator.
But, given his credentials – he is a formidable Chinese linguist and creative policy thinker, with long and close personal relationships with key figures in both the US and China – his argument must be taken seriously.
The new government will face formidable challenges.
It lacked strategy at a time when both countries face formidable challenges on many fronts.
As challenging as applying them may be, they constitute a much less formidable requirement than that of picking winners.
Securing Iraq therefore requires a formidable force to be in place, which is why US President Barack Obama’s strategy includes rebuilding the Iraqi army.
Hamas understands that accommodation with the Jewish state – and attending to the tedious business of providing decent governance in Gaza, rather than accumulating a formidable arsenal with help from Iran and Sudan (for which “Palestine” is just a pretext) – would mean the end of the organization as we know it.
In 1991, America forged the most formidable international coalition since World War II, and led it in a fully legitimate war aimed at restoring regional balance after Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait.
Nor is Hezbollah keen to see the end of Israel’s occupation of the Sheba Farms on the Lebanon border undermine its claim to the formidable independent military force that it has built with Iranian and Syrian help.
Concerns such as these are likely to increase as China emerges as a formidable development player.
Moreover, the EU is confronted with formidable foreign-policy challenges.
Only enactment of immigration legislation by the US Congress before the March 5, 2018, deadline – a formidable challenge in view of today’s highly fractured political conditions – can enable Dreamers to stay without fear of being tracked down, rounded up, and expelled.
It is merely taking on a new – and possibly more formidable – shape.
Moving the US embassy to Jerusalem is a far more powerful symbolic move, suggesting that it could spur even more formidable resistance – and not just from the 300,000 Palestinians who live in East Jerusalem, or even from the more than 12 million Palestinians around the world.
The continuing focus is the lack of growth in China -- it has fallen to "only" 7.1% -- along with deflation, the lack of confidence on the part of households who will feel the impact of the formidable restructuring problems in state enterprises, and the loss of international competitiveness.
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