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Both understood that for centuries the English Channel has been a formidable geopolitical barrier to a durable sharing of interests between Britain and France.
But this has not stopped Abubakar, a formidable political operator, from launching his presidential bid, despite uncertainty over whether he will fight it out with his boss for control of the PDP machinery or decamp to another political party.
Geography alone in this vast and poorly connected country constitutes a formidable obstacle to conducting an election according to internationally recognized standards.
But the fact remains that, if Trump’s heated protectionist rhetoric continues, the US will face a strong dollar, severely weakened exporters, and a much larger trade deficit – not to mention heightened tensions with a formidable China.
While Brexit, by removing an anti-integrationist country power from the EU, may well give a greater impetus to Franco-German cooperation, it will do nothing to remove many formidable obstacles to progress.
China’s Macro DisconnectNEW HAVEN – Structural change and rebalancing are formidable undertakings for any economy.
The challenges are clearly formidable.
Yes, massive institutional improvements concerning central banks have created formidable barriers to high inflation.
North Korea has conducted a total of six nuclear tests – the same number as India, whose formidable nuclear-weapons capability is beyond dispute.
But creating a new balance that contains a little less obsession with Iran and a little more concern for the Palestinians is a formidable challenge.
The looming end of President Hosni Mubarak’s long rule in Egypt might lead to the emergence of a formidable bid by the Muslim Brotherhood for power in Cairo, possibly forcing Mubarak’s successor either to reach a modus vivendi or to wage a fight to the death.
Just as reconstruction finance gave way to development lending over the course of the Bank’s history, its current focus on banking operations should be reconsidered, as the organization’s main source of added value now lies in its formidable potential as a center of knowledge and a coordinator of international policies.
On June 7, a hundred cars blocked roads in central Minsk to protest a 30% increase in fuel prices – a daring act in Europe's most formidable police state.
Indeed, the pair would constitute a formidable cross-generational, cross-party team that might finally be able to implement much-needed reforms.
They do not form a formidable presence, as in Nigeria, where some Muslim-majority states in the north have even implemented Sharia Law, making them more or less Islamic states.
If we continue on our current path, the scale on which they would have to operate would be formidable.
Hamas’s emergence as a formidable military force also reflects the Egyptians’ inept performance in preventing the smuggling of weapons into Gaza.
After all, while the British political system does put formidable barriers in the path of any new party, the chances of success are greater now than at any time in the last 40 years.
Not only has Bush destroyed Iran’s most formidable enemy and bogged down US troops in a hopeless cause; he also has enriched energy-abundant Iran and Russia by pursuing a war that has dramatically raised energy prices.
Still, French-British cooperation if it does take on real substance could be an inspiration to others, though the challenges to making the agreement viable are formidable.
Such a resounding collapse of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty would pose a formidable challenge to the world community, particularly to the Middle East.
Viewing the current conflict between such formidable military powers as Israel and Iran through a similar lens can only breed untold catastrophe.
From the Chinese point of view, Russia was a formidable European power, one feared by other Western powers.
Third, Zoellick should use his formidable negotiating skills to cajole rich countries into greatly increasing the grant component of World Bank aid.
There is not a single business anywhere in the world that has not felt China’s impact, either as a low-cost supplier, or more threateningly, as a formidable competitor.
But while the barriers to women’s leadership are formidable, they are not insurmountable.
But, as Modi’s just-concluded tour of China highlighted, the issues that divide the demographic titans remain formidable.
The European Commission’s watchword has been that the integrity of the Single Market must be defended at all costs, and that it will use its formidable legal powers to ensure that bailouts and other state aid by EU governments do not distort fair competition.
Josef Schumpeter (failed turn-of-the-century Austrian finance minister at age 21, bankrupt banker shortly after, formidable Harvard economist after that) called this process "creative destruction."
In many places, it turns the world upside down: Finland as a high tech center, Germany lagging because change is denigrated, Japan's slumping economy rescued by its formidable technology potential.
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