Example collocations logo

Formidable in sentence

427 examples of Formidable in a sentence

Given that he will face a serious challenge from the Socialist Party candidate – most likely the formidable Dominique Strauss-Kahn – in the 2012 presidential election, Sarkozy is likely to postpone serious fiscal austerity and launch only cosmetic structural reforms.
All of this explains why the US had such a formidable period of growth in recent years, despite the fact that household savings were close to zero, and why foreigners were willing to finance a record US current-account deficit of more than 5% of GDP – higher than it has been since 1929.
Against these formidable minuses are three pluses.
The trust-building process, based on the strength of formidable deterrence, is intended to build sustainable peace on the Korean Peninsula by making North Korea pay dearly for its aggressive acts while ensuring opportunities for change and assistance if it is willing to become a responsible member of the international community.
The vote supported those who felt that "those who make wise decisions are more formidable to their enemies than those who rush madly into strong action."
Leaving aside potential geopolitical disruptions, there are some formidable challenges to overcome, mostly stemming from political underperformance and dysfunction.
In advanced economies, though the answer should still be yes, the challenges are becoming formidable.
Global Zero at Ground ZeroMADRID – Since its launch in December 2008, Global Zero, the vision of a world without nuclear weapons, has run up against some formidable challenges.
The prevailing perception in Israel is that of being surrounded by formidable non-nuclear threats, and dangerously weakened by the poor capacity of the state’s domestic front to sustain a long conventional war.
The Female ResistanceWARSAW – Antagonism is mounting between today’s right-wing populists and a somewhat unexpected but formidable opponent: women.
Indeed, Russia has far more formidable hackers than North Korea (though much of the top talent currently is employed in mafia rings, rather than in strategic operations).
Of course, access to a networked world has also balanced state power in positive ways, by giving a formidable boost to independent advocacy, as seen in the online campaign to ban landmines and the treaty that ratified its success – despite opposition by powerful states.
For China, a soft landing will provide a window of opportunity to press ahead with the formidable task of increasingly urgent economic rebalancing.
The potential flight of employment seekers – a formidable force worldwide – is only one problem.
The economic headwinds are formidable: fiscal austerity, high interest rates outside AAA-rated countries, credit cutting by banks, deleveraging households, weak private-sector investment, and declining exports as the global slowdown undermines demand.
First came the resignation of IMF chief economist Michael Mussa, a formidable University of Chicago-educated economist renowned for good judgment.
The imperative to address the formidable challenges to further expansion of Internet usage is clear.
Yet, while ISIS had to be stopped, it was never the West’s most formidable enemy in Syria; that title goes to the axis of Russia, Iran, Hezbollah, and the Assad regime – an axis against which ISIS was actually a counterbalancing force.
Like manufacturing supply chains in the wake of the Japanese disruption, financial supply chains face formidable pressures to re-engineer and adapt as the global economic balance shifts towards emerging markets.
For both Israelis and Palestinians, achieving internal peace might prove as formidable a challenge as establishing peace with each other.
Doubling the area of protected coastal land and bringing substantial areas of open ocean into reserves is a particularly formidable task.
For central banks, measuring the equilibrium interest rate – an abstract concept that cannot be observed – is a formidable challenge.
Moreover, with the West focused on the formidable challenges posed by the Arab revolts, Iran finds it easier to divert the world’s attention from its nuclear program, and to circumvent the international sanctions regime designed to curtail its efforts to acquire nuclear weapons.
DSK, too, began his tenure at the IMF as a politician-in-exile, after emerging as French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s most formidable domestic opponent.
What sounds like a light-hearted request is actually a formidable task.
Given these misconceptions, protectionism has re-emerged as a formidable foe.
But that effort, too, must overcome formidable cultural obstacles.
Victims of continental European totalitarianism could still find refuge in that “West,” and even those who couldn’t still knew that fascists and Nazis had formidable enemies in London and Washington.
Nor is the presence of America’s formidable might in today’s Iraq comforting to them.
Though a number of restrictions on travel and financial transactions have been rescinded, the obstacles in the path of a real change in the island’s economic situation remain formidable.
Back