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For the ECB and the Bank of Japan (BOJ), both of which are facing formidable downside risks to their economies and aggregate price levels, this is hardly an idle question.
Of course, formidable obstacles lie ahead for China.
Although the Soviet Union no longer exists, Russia remains a formidable nuclear power, with the ability to project force anywhere in the world.
Restoring some balance to the income distribution and encouraging social mobility, while strengthening incentives for innovation and growth, will be among the most important – and formidable – challenges of the twenty-first century.
The Middle East has long confronted the US with formidable challenges, which ultimately exceeded America’s imperial capacities and sapped public support.
And yet integrating these efforts remains a formidable challenge.
When the communist regimes collapsed in 1989, the communist parties of Poland and Hungary transformed themselves into credible democratic-left parties that became formidable opponents of the newly emerging political right.
Yet America was great before Trump, and his behavior – riding roughshod over international agreements, trashing allies, and pursuing protectionist trade measures – will only undermine that greatness by, among other things, depleting the country’s formidable stock of soft power.
Reaching a national consensus will be a formidable task for the Constituent Assembly, and meanwhile the Nepali people cannot be expected to wait patiently until a new constitution is drafted to see real improvement in their daily lives.
In addition, the administrative difficulties of instituting a comprehensive wealth tax are formidable, raising questions about fairness.
Labor-market chaos will not abate until governments and companies address a formidable set of issues involving education, opportunities for the young and the elderly, the virtues and challenges of immigration, and the aspirations of women.
Each of these tasks is formidable.
When population growth on this scale is combined with rapid urbanization, the associated environmental and social impacts become a formidable policy challenge.
And Israel’s emphasis on its Jewish identity has become a formidable obstacle to peace with the Palestinians.
Decades of control over education and culture budgets have produced a formidable clerisy, including legions of political apparatchiks, civil servants, writers, academics, teachers, NGO workers, journalists, and TV producers, among many others.
By the time Israel withdrew from Lebanon in 2000, nearly 20 years after its original invasion, Hezbollah had become a formidable military, political, and social force in Lebanon, and a continuing thorn in Israel’s side.
Each camp has taken its turn controlling the government, under two formidable female leaders: the Awami League’s Sheikh Hasina Wazed, the current prime minister, and her two-term predecessor, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party’s Begum Khaleda Zia.
Even in Kosovo, where obstacles remain formidable, progress is being made.
It retains a formidable nuclear capacity, but it is inconceivable that Russia would use it to secure its aims in Ukraine.
Pressures will be formidable to buy where prices are low and sell, or at least not to buy, where prices are high.
The task facing the IMF is formidable.
Add to this Japan and South Korea’s formidable economies, and Southeast Asia’s dynamism, and a picture emerges of rising wealth, confidence, and leadership.
And, while the challenges posed by population change are formidable, they are most likely surmountable.
As the Islamic world grows in stature and influence, Islamic finance will become a formidable competitor to the current financial system.
But it retains the vocation and characteristics of a major power: a rich culture and history, vast size, formidable nuclear capabilities, strong influence across Eurasia, and the capacity to be a spoiler in many conflicts.
Thus, it becomes a formidable challenge to the European Union to offer anything but welcome to Ukraine.
Sino-American codependency poses a formidable challenge to Trump’s strategy of China bashing.
In his more popular articles, in his columns, and on the podium, his wit and the speed of his mind made him a formidable presence.
This approach confronts formidable obstacles.
It should encourage the UN’s secretary-general to be less nervous about using his formidable authority under Article 99 of the Charter to bring matters to the Council’s attention on his own.
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