| Although so large, and so formidably equipped, the swordfish often lazes on the surface of the water and can be harpooned. |
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| The Islanders have added enough grit and meanness to make them a formidably physical opponent. |
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| While the haddock was formidably smokey, the mustard cream sauce was far less rich than some versions I've had the misfortune to come across. |
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| I had worried that the dressing would be formidably strong, but the meat had been hung for a lengthy period and was far more gamey than that used by most oriental restaurants. |
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| But among the educated middle classes in India the knowledge of Shakespeare is formidably good, alarming really, because you find people who know the text as well as you do. |
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| He also argues that a large agency might be formidably difficult to manage. |
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| It is clear that Serbia faces a formidably difficult winter, especially on the energy front. |
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| I think it is very much to the credit of Mr Barrot and the Commission that they have proposed it, but it was also a formidably difficult matter. |
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| Second phase: the world wars and totalitarianisms have developed formidably the art of annihilation. |
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| I have myself written that Paul seems a formidably clever pol and stands a very good chance of being the Republican nominee. |
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| Both are put to the test here even more formidably than in the previous books, as a plot of nerve-tingling suspense and brain-teasing deviousness ramifies. |
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| Kirstie, 53, who rose to fame and fortune with her role as the feisty Rebecca Howe on the hit '80s sitcom Cheers, has gone from va-va-voom voluptuous to formidably fat. |
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| At the beginning there was Jean-Baptiste, the grandfather, already formidably gifted and who made the restaurant, opposite the railway station, a table which was worth the voyage. |
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| It seems to me that President Kostunica has made an impressive start in formidably difficult circumstances that few of us predicted a few months ago. |
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| It is also the story of a catalog of eccentric, impassioned and opinionated characters, who, more than in any other walk of life, are formidably egotistical. |
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| In many cases, artillery now outstrips other anti-tank systems such as missile-armed helicopters, as it proves to be formidably effective without being subjected to the same operating limits. |
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| Achieving a nuclear weapon free world will be a long, complex and formidably difficult process, most realistically pursued as a two-phase process, with minimization the immediate goal and elimination the ultimate one. |
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| Paul Bocuse, the phenomenon, the chef known all over the world, formidably surrounded with a battalion of Best Workers in France, launched, in January, 2008, a new concept, the Ouest Express. |
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| The Election Observation Mission dealt formidably with the challenges of a long deployment, the challenges of working in a large and complex country, and the challenge as well of dealing with three difficult election days. |
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| Dense, with high but velvety tannins, top-flight purity, and a full-bodied, backward, formidably endowed style, this beauty seems to be set for a long life. |
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| An easy question to pose, a formidably difficult one to answer, but the essential one to resolve if we are to rise to the historic responsibility that we must shoulder towards our neighbours to the East. |
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| In this series so far he has now taken 11 wickets, he is conceding runs at barely three an over, he has been formidably quick with the new ball and trustworthily menacing with the older one. |
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| A formidably endowed wine with layers of extract, this is a huge, tannic, monstrous-sized Petrus that will require a minimum of 10 years of cellaring. |
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| Loomingly tall, brainily bald, and formidably fit, Richard Howorth is also a part-time politician — he was mayor of Oxford for most of the past decade. |
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| They also took evidence from some formidably well-informed witnesses. |
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| But the Inspector was made of stern stuff. He closed his right hand and with the resulting fist pounded formidably on the bronze. |
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| Britain is already a formidably competitive wine market. |
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| He has formidably altered the Group's portfolio, making it less cyclical, more profitable, with stronger growth and increasingly higher margin products. |
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| Smart, Hambach Located since 1994 in Hambach near the German border and surrounded by its main suppliers, Smart has set up a formidably effective logistics organisation. |
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| Its functional and decorative aspects can seem dishearteningly elitist and remote, and the techniques involved in its manufacture are formidably complex. |
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