The musician works alone behind the closed door and within formidable soundproof walls. |
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Getting and staying married may seem formidable to a young pregnant woman because marriage is filled with a hundred irritations and difficulties. |
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The word Glasgow means Dear Green Place, but the grey Scottish sky adds gravity and seriousness to already formidable architecture. |
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Blacks, whites, shadows, glooms, and cobwebs are also used with formidable effect in the Satis House scenes in Great Expectations. |
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Steven, Kiri and now Monty were channeling every dreg of their formidable power into their defense of Rose, but they were overmatched. |
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On paper they are a formidable outfit but poor decision making and a concession of penalties are costing them dearly. |
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The pace is formidable, the wry tone even and well-sustained, and the narrative fluently written. |
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Given the porousness of U.S. borders and the volume of international traffic, sealing off the country would be a formidable task. |
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He delegated to junior ministers, but retained a formidable grasp of the policy details. |
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Castelbaldo, today a rustic town, was then furnished with a formidable castle, which the Paduans had provisioned with food and arms. |
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The partnership she has established with Ian Waite looks formidable and has impressed the panel of four judges. |
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Among a formidable list of opponents, the American Deena Kastor may be the most dangerous. |
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It was part of Ben's family coat of arms, the Great Ash surrounded by four elk with formidable antlers. |
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As for Johnson, the old Lion may be getting a bit long in the tooth but he is still a formidable opponent. |
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The problem of educating the peripatetic children who lived on the canal boats was formidable. |
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The faceless, inanimate riot police are far more imposing and formidable than the passionate workers. |
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When they could be provoked into a fight or caught at all, Comanche warriors proved formidable foes, even for expert riflemen. |
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This made him a formidable thinker but his knowledge and expertise did not just come from midnight oil. |
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They are strong at the back, very formidable at midfield, while their forwards are in a class of their own. |
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First a formidable cartel makes a tight combine and launches an advertisement blitz against the hapless rivals. |
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The more demure ladies in the group recoiled in horror, but my fatso friends and I peered at this formidable dish in silent wonder. |
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I would never have thought I could climb such formidable mountains, so it was an incredible thrill to be able to do it. |
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In all this indirection, finding direction out is, admittedly, a formidable enterprise. |
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This means that neutron stars are formidable radiation emitters and particle accelerators. |
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Almost everyone is familiar with the nettle through its formidable sting, but few know about the important role it plays in the natural world. |
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The formidable royal castle towering above the Danube still breathes the air of this era. |
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As the story goes, she was a formidable woman who did not take to fools kindly. |
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You are aware, of course, that she is insane, but she is also endowed with formidable psychic gifts. |
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Whoever it was, they have assembled a formidable array of talent and spent a lot of money. |
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The combination of the software of biological human intelligence with the benefits of non-biological intelligence will be very formidable. |
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Big rivers, formidable mountains and jungle-like rainforest were among the physical challenges. |
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It was solid oak, hard and formidable, shining gloss in the dimly lit kitchen. |
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The exhibition opens with a section on Solomon's juvenilia, and shows him already with a voice of his own and a formidable technique. |
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The wide estuary of the River Tay on the east coast of Scotland presented a formidable obstacle to transport. |
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The business world might look formidable from the outside but not everyone has a double first in economics and maths from St Andrews. |
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Last October's local elections revealed it to be a formidable force, outspending and outpolling the competition. |
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To keep growing at its current pace, Houghton must surmount some formidable challenges. |
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First, the British idler has a more formidable work culture to contend with. |
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But the insurgency lacks the ideological coherence or organization it would need to grow into a more formidable force. |
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The team actually starts winning, which leads inexorably to the final showdown against the formidable rivals. |
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Along the way, they encountered hostile forces, fierce weather and a formidable landscape. |
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Hawksmoor's intercolumniation is 18 feet, a formidable span for a stone entablature. |
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Prosecuting big-time corrupters has proven to be a formidable task even after four years under the reform movement. |
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I turned the empire from a weakened state to a formidable industrial powerhouse. |
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At least the movie does a formidable service by proving once and for all that neither marijuana nor LSD is the true gateway drug. |
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The Squid was a formidable weapon in the war against the U-boat, capable of being preset to explode at a pre-determined depth. |
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In fact, Europe now faces a much more formidable set of challenges regarding Galileo's future compatibility. |
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At each stage of this third period, the collision between Hagiocracy and these messianic forces becomes more formidable. |
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Bayern would look more formidable if they could get two of their most talented midfielders fully fit. |
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That made her much more formidable an adversary because she didn't have the usual narcissistic vanity. |
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Priory opened with a mix of pace and leg spin which was to prove a formidable formula. |
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And now for Federer, who will be all the more formidable for his day of leisure yesterday. |
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But this past summer, the movement faced even more formidable organizing challenges within its own ranks. |
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Congress can always retrieve its formidable vote bank among minorities, Dalits and forward castes by some good planning and homework. |
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It seems the formidable competitive streak which made him the world's greatest all-round athlete remains. |
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The singer's formidable skills are frustratingly wasted on this trite, piano-backed piece. |
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Lastly, the hatred and contempt of the past two millennia add a formidable barrier to authentic communication. |
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Together they form a formidable A-team of masterful musicians who are so special you feel that they are capable of tilting the world on its axis. |
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Almost two decades after its fledgling, janky website went live, Amazon is now one of the most formidable corporations out there. |
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Costumes were put on just before we were due to go on, according to Mr. B and his formidable Russian wardrobe mistress. |
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The matron, who was in charge of us, was a formidable figure and you didn't want to get in her bad books. |
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Its sheer size makes it formidable, and its movement is apparently unstoppable. |
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With such a formidable pack, introduce more 3rd row and forward play off line-outs, scrums and rucks and mauls. |
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He has built a formidable reputation on challenging the corporate orthodoxy. |
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A formidable songstress in her own right, the West Philly native comes home for an intimate evening of folky soul. |
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There the King learned that a formidable French fleet lay at anchor in the mouth of the Zwyn, guarding the approaches to Bruges. |
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It was an emphatic victory and formidable testimony to his talent and determination. |
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The prime minister is not sufficiently restored in authority that he can risk making a move against his still formidable Chancellor. |
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One of these visitors was Johann Hummel, well known in his day as a formidable pianist outdone on the keyboard only by Beethoven himself. |
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Pittodrie presently holds one of the most formidable fear factors in the Premierleague. |
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In other words, the world, the flesh, and the devil are formidable obstacles to responding to the light and grace that God gives. |
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In Hassan, though, he came up against a formidable opponent and a smart street fighter. |
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Daschle is faced with the formidable task of refocusing the nation's attention on domestic issues, particularly the economy. |
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Long before he wrote his first song, he was already demonstrating formidable musical skills. |
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And besides, to be able to create emotions with writing is formidable as it is. |
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Arrows have proven the nemesis of most teams visiting Durban and have established themselves as a formidable outfit. |
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And his left hook was every bit as formidable and devastating as his uppercut. |
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The rebelliousness of teenagers in the 1950s and 60s happened against a formidable structure of convinced, if largely unexamined, certainties. |
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His performance revealed how formidable he is as the power behind the throne and how inadequate as a public man. |
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The woman who lost two husbands and two sons to violent deaths has now come across another formidable foe in this legendary police roundsman. |
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Not that he was a formidable figure bestriding the political scene like a colossus. |
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She remains a formidable presence, still charismatic and sharp-witted after six decades of fame. |
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Mr Solomon heard that Zak was a purple belt in karate and had medals for rugby league as well as being a formidable footballer. |
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The plot construction is a bit convoluted, but at the core it is the unlikely romance between the ageing Lothario and the formidable divorcee. |
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The Conservative leader is formidable, a successful barrister with a good grasp of detail, albeit with a well-documented short fuse. |
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He can roll or slice his backhand, hook his forehand short, or hit it with a mix of pace and top spin that is formidable. |
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The highly trained Rangers can field formidable firepower for such a small and mobile force. |
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An immense network of 10,000 to 20,000 Alpha processors will form the basis of this formidable number cruncher. |
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These beasts lived largely in the sea and marginal river basins, where they hunted prey with their formidable crab-like claws. |
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A formidable intellect, a compassionate man of integrity and a scholar of the law, he already is a terrific judge. |
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Since then he has become a formidable quizmaster and he had kept all the questions he has ever asked in a filing cabinet. |
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It was a formidable engineering feat, for the line had to be cut through 420 km. |
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Many have sought to portray George VI as a weakling who was moulded by his formidable wife. |
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Lady Hester evidently came from Somerset, where she acquired a formidable reputation for breaking in the most vicious horses. |
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There's a formidable, unflinching adultness about Steely Dan, especially late Steely Dan, which is immensely impressive. |
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These awkward facts, combined with a formidable military capability, go a long way towards explaining the current colonialist adventurism. |
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But in the bruisingly fast world of battered global computer companies, a formidable weight rests on the slender shoulders of this 39-year-old. |
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He holds a formidable spell over Esperanza and controls her until she wises up and leaves him to pursue her career. |
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It seems unfair that a man of such vitality, intelligence, and formidable personality ended his public career with more of a whimper than a bang. |
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By the fourth season, each of the leads has fallen into a comfortable rhythm, and they've congealed into a formidable comedy team. |
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Although crocodiles are formidable predators, taking prey as large as antelopes, they will allow crocodile birds to scavenge among their teeth. |
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Yet they also led to formidable new problems in organization and management. |
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What we do know is that she has a formidable mind, powerful admirers and a yellow plastic digger on her desk. |
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Recorded on a variety of media from phonographs, to reel-to-reel tape and DVD, the archive is as formidable as it is valuable. |
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What Pitt-Watson probably hadn't bargained for was the formidable figure sitting to Grossart's right. |
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Problems such as these still seem to present a formidable challenge to the ingenuity of algebraists. |
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The Hokkaido wolf is a formidable beast but not dangerous to man as long as other prey is to be had for the killing. |
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With a sprinkling of new players still bedding in, they looked ill at ease in the face of a familiar, and formidable, United side. |
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Such market failure presents a formidable barrier to accessing capital markets for finance. |
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So great was the demoralization that formidable fortresses capitulated to mere cavalry units. |
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A formidable array of armour and troops roared through in a never ending stream. |
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Although they are formidable hunters, leopard seals are solitary creatures and it is virtually unknown for them to attack humans. |
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Although it is expensive in hardcover, a paperback edition would make a formidable textbook for advanced undergraduates or graduate students. |
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That brings a formidable new dimension to the conflict, further magnified by its global scale. |
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Yet for a chef who shoots from the mouth, Ramsay inspires formidable loyalty. |
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The more you get into the intricacies of it, you see how sophisticated it often is and how formidable it is. |
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And second, the public career of one of the country's most formidable politicians. |
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You could battle for parking at DuPar's in the Farmers Market, an old-line coffee shop that does serve truly formidable French toast. |
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He was a formidable linguist, speaking 25 languages and many more dialects. |
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He assuredly bumped off a formidable array of erstwhile friends and possible rivals. |
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She is somehow too robustly formidable, and the idea of killing her doesn't have the right mixture of pathos and horror. |
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The trick will be to blend this talent into a formidable team by championship time. |
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At 25, her success has been formidable, but she is oddly unhelpful about applying her reputed intelligence to an understanding of it. |
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The unpredictable Missouri weather lived up to its formidable reputation as it blustered all week. |
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In the face of such formidable colleagues, Jo's desire to impress and succeed is even more acute. |
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Amid these twaddlers he presents the formidable front of a man with meaning, confident of his cause, and devoted to it with all his faculty. |
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It was fought against the Mahrattas, a formidable Hindu confederacy of warriors and marauders who dominated much of Central India. |
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Sitting here in front of him in his Stormont Office, I see the formidable politician he has become. |
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Anybody's list of cricket writers would include the formidable Marxist critic CLR James and the immortal Neville Cardus. |
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Although the offensive line is without a center, it still is a formidable group. |
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The report said the abolition of import quotas on Chinese textiles and apparel in key markets in 2005 will make China a formidable competitor. |
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So, when my formidable granny asked me, from the other end of the table, to repeat my request, the entire family stared. |
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Henrik Pedersen put 17 months of anguish behind him on Sunday to outgun one of the most formidable attacks in the Premiership. |
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In some cases, the fans have been formidable and have outgunned the board in business experience or PR skills. |
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The doctrine in detail is one of formidable complexity, but its basic principle is simple. |
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His accomplishments were formidable during the first three decades of his reign. |
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The sheer glee with which Schoeffler attacks these issues, and his unflagging commitment, make him a formidable adversary. |
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That is not to say that the English thegn was any less formidable than the Norman knight, as Hastings was to show. |
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The first game after the enforced break was a tough encounter against formidable opponents. |
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They don't have the slightest idea of anything sensible to say, so a formidable quote always slips out. |
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She is truly formidable, rather like one of those fantastic figureheads on a tall ship. |
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He led his team of skilful but unpredictable players to Portugal, hell-bent on adding to his formidable reputation. |
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The shipbuilders have been playing well and are formidable opponents for anyone on their own patch. |
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She has been formidable from start to finish, and is one of the hardest workers in the company. |
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Snowboy's lead on congas and assorted Afro-Cuban beatboxes is shared with shimmering vocals by Davide Giovanni and backed by the formidable talents of the Latin Section. |
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Other outlets fielded their own formidable crews to cover the oil spill, but only ABC fielded a lacrosse team. |
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As for the correct time, the U.S. Naval Observatory's Atomic Clock is the basis for what's probably the Web's most formidable chronometrical site. |
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He's already become a formidable, almost mythical figure to many hardcore cinephiles and critics, the kind of filmmaker who gets described in magical, visionary terms. |
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The delay enabled the Japanese garrison of 19,000 troops to construct the most formidable beach defences, a way through which had to be cleared by underwater demolition teams. |
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Ultimately it was this haphazardness, a seemingly carefree approach to cutting-edge climbs, along with his formidable intellect and wit, which forged the Smith legend. |
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Viewers didn't know it, but Anne was as formidable a presence behind the screens as she was on it, changing scripts and recutting films until she was satisfied. |
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Human rights as an ideology is a potent mobiliser of support for imperialist interventions and, as mentioned, a formidable guarantor of legitimacy. |
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With more attention and focus to his bowling he could become a truly formidable international cricketer, secure in the knowledge that he has more to offer than just the slog. |
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The northern view to our little island Isay is blocked by the 500-metre peak of Ben Dhubh, but to the north-west, Taransay looks barrenly formidable. |
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If Randa hits like he did in the second half, and Lopez was to continue his tear, they would have one of the more formidable offenses in baseball. |
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The contemporary newspapers, even those opposed to George's policies, almost entirely agreed in paying tribute to his remarkable oratory and formidable rhetorical skills. |
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The always reliable actress brings a flinty edge to the formidable Maggie. |
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The circulars created formidable bureaucratic regulations to collect the tariff, with those importing goods via railways facing particularly onerous requirements. |
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What versions of all that insanity would poke through the din of conversation between these formidable eleven women? |
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He was a formidable athlete as well as a notable Westmorland cleric. |
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As a pioneer used to thinking outside the box, Odent demonstrates familiarity with a formidable range of subjects, from ethnography to endocrinology. |
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Of course, he's horribly plausible and a formidable election campaigner. |
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This aside, the list of hurdles he must overcome is still formidable. |
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Terfel roars out his righteous rage and coos his ludicrous love songs with equal aplomb, making the formidable vocal feats seem almost ridiculously easy. |
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But despite being the third string at Selby, Charlie Booth's side have a formidable spirit of team-work and have beaten a number of higher ranked teams before. |
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Without such prodding, the machine's wand simply doesn't have enough torque to move ice cream so formidable. |
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So when Vitter got into trouble, he was a known quantity who had shown himself to be politically formidable. |
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But while the obstacles to evidence-based governance are formidable, they are not insurmountable. |
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At Michigan, he would be a formidable recruiter, able to evoke the tradition of his former iconic coach, bo Schembechler. |
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If yesterday's purchase of shares is the precursor to a takeover bid, those qualities will make them formidable opponents for the Manchester United board. |
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Collecting, analyzing, and assimilating information at this level of detail is a formidable challenge for intelligence analysts, policymakers, and warfighters alike. |
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His glossy technique as a straight jazz swinger is formidable. |
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So destructive was Vabaza that detractors doubted Shabani's boxing ability and called on Vabaza to prove himself against a more formidable fighter. |
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Without such a check, the press, in the hands of evil and designing men, would become a most formidable engine, and as mighty for mischief as for good. |
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Drawing inspiration from the anti-war movement, it aims to unite all those horrified by New Labour's programme of war and neoliberalism into a formidable electoral force. |
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But the longer the half wore on the sense a tad more craft, guile or cunning was needed to break through the formidable and sizeable Shrewsbury defence grew and grew. |
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Instead, U.S. forces generally remain penned up in formidable cantonments. |
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They allowed some of the weekend's 700 visitors the chance to handle a longbow, the English national weapon in the Middle Ages and a formidable force on the battlefield. |
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The Great White Shark has gone grey, although rumours that he has taken to keeping those formidable gnashers of his in a jar by the bed remain unconfirmed at this time. |
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Still, there is plenty to commend about Cotton, and he is a formidable candidate. |
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What interests me enormously is the formidable capacity of photo-sensitive material to distort and fantasticate, nearly always dramatically, everything it touches. |
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Recoil in horror as he allows The View ladies to tousle his formidable mane! |
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A formidable creature half lion, half eagle, the griffin is said to be one thousand times stronger than any lion and five thousand times as farsighted as an eagle. |
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He rose from solicitor's clerk and part-time secularist lecturer to become one of the most formidable public speakers and unofficial legal advocates in Victorian Britain. |
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Though lame, he grows up strong and agile and a formidable bowman. |
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The inconvenience and hassles involved, particularly when patients are illiterate and unable to communicate meaningfully with doctors, are formidable. |
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Here was a formidable antiquarian and linguist, fluent in classical and romance languages, as well as Hebrew, Arabic, Persian, Aramaic, Anglo-Saxon, and a half dozen others. |
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Every aria she sang was a highlight, not least the formidable Act 1 scena which can hold up its musical head in the exalted territory of Come scoglio. |
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Under the umbrella of their different tariqas the brotherhoods developed formidable organizations bound by personal ties of allegiance to their leaders. |
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Perfect use of lighting, scenography and projections emphasised slick performances by a formidable cast and an evocative musical score was the cherry on the cake. |
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She rises to the formidable challenge of bringing together her three very different, marginalized figures for thoughtful comparisons and synthesis. |
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It's a formidable challenge for a first timer, but don't for one fleeting moment discount the young man's chances of landing what would truly be an outstanding double. |
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Economic hardship and popular demoralisation may create social and political instabilities which are more formidable threats to the regime than war with South Korea. |
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Tron finds the MCP, which for such a formidable foe, turns out to be a mean cartoon-animated face. |
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Despite his formidable name, Poole is far from being the Green-Wood resident with the most blood on his hands. |
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For some, these may prove to be altogether more formidable adversaries. |
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Although the media can be reluctant to analyse or even accept that its own role is any more than that of an objective observer, its networks are formidable. |
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What killed the saber-toothed tiger, the mastodon and the mammoth, formidable animals that were on top of the food chain in North America 20,000 years ago? |
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Communism was a formidable foe, administered by a one-party authoritarian state apparatus, and lodged in institutions and practices of its centralized command economy. |
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When he gets going he is very formidable and takes some stopping. |
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Some of the most talented artists in the area belong to this group and I would encourage anyone with an interest to go along to see the formidable talent for themself. |
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While Meall a'Ghiubhais is a straightforward climb from the path, the steep screes and formidable northern crags of Ruadh-stac Beag makes a direct ascent almost impossible. |
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The men wearing numbers 5, 6 and 35 make up a defensive triumvirate as formidable, aggressive, powerful and obdurate as any in the club's history. |
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Perhaps it was the violin's formidable heritage, or the choice of repertoire, which accounts for the politely reverential tone of much of the recording. |
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Between them, the five men can muster a formidable array of expertise in artificial intelligence, computational linguistics, 3D graphics and marketing. |
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Any institution striving to examine such an iconic figure would find formidable challenges. |
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He has been caricatured, as a man more interested in country and western music than opera, and it is true that he has a formidable expertise in the area of popular music. |
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Sceptics about musical meaning tend to regard these alternatives under the sign of Scylla and Charybdis, as formidable dangers nearly impossible to avoid. |
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It was fitted with a sturdy bayonet bar to which could be attached a formidable brass-handled sword bayonet with a 23-inch blade. |
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The Spice Girls' image was deliberately aimed at young girls, an audience of formidable size and potential. |
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This one-dimensionality makes Germinal a formidable national monument, but not much cop as a film. |
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This latest attempt comes from the likes of Viking, Kenmore and Wolf, a formidable lineup to promote these cooktops. |
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Yet it was in Athens where his most formidable contemporary critics could be found. |
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Montero's most formidable competition in the all-star balloting is expected to come from Lake Elsinore catcher George Kottaras, who's batting. |
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Aguateca was stormed by unknown enemies around 810 AD, who overcame its formidable defences and burned the royal palace. |
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In the second game, Lad looked fresher and more formidable while Rane appeared jaded and soon faded away conceding a string of soft points. |
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Because globalization has a firm grip on human communities, challenging its power is a formidable task. |
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In turn, the squid is a formidable hunter of large marine creatures like the Patagonian toothfish that can grow to be more than 6 ft long. |
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And Udinese can even move top of Serie A with a win over Chievo this afternoon at their formidable Stadio Friuli. |
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Fifth Army offensive stalled along the formidable Gustav Line that stretched from the Adriatic Sea to the Tyrrhenian Sea. |
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Fat Pat was a formidable figure, how would she be driven off by pipsqueaks Ian and Barry? |
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To avoid the fatal consequences of polyspermy, female reproductive tracts have evolved to become formidable barriers to sperm. |
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This year's competition in Orlando, Florida, which is pending as of this writing, will also include a formidable home school contingent. |
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The sole purpose of this formidable display of telepathic prestidigitation is to extract from my mind the diagnosis for the next case. |
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So, at last, backed by a formidable phalange of femfans, I dare speak up, brave lassie that I am. |
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Roman armies were not invincible, despite their formidable reputation and host of victories. |
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Louis feared a further escalation of the conflict against this formidable coalition. |
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Giants are rough but generally righteous characters of formidable strength living up the hills of the Basque Country. |
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In this text, he is presented as the most formidable knight at King Arthur's court. |
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Some of the National's most challenging fences have also been modified, while still preserving them as formidable obstacles. |
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Along the Pacific Ocean coast lie the Coast Ranges, which, while not approaching the scale of the Rocky Mountains, are formidable nevertheless. |
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Haakon rejected the claim, and in the following year responded with a formidable invasion. |
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His mother was by all accounts a formidable woman who, legend would have it, kept Robert Bruce's father captive until he agreed to marry her. |
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These two women, among the most formidable in Scottish history, established a good understanding. |
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Mary escaped from Edinburgh to Dunbar and by 18 March returned with a formidable force. |
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The regiment took part in many fierce engagements throughout 1944, including those against the Gothic Line, a formidable defensive line. |
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Quickly she developed into a prominent member of the group and developed a formidable stage presence. |
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Wihtred of Kent died in 725, and Ine of Wessex, one of the most formidable rulers of his day, abdicated in 726 to go on a pilgrimage to Rome. |
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Welsh Labour's predecessor bodies bequeathed it a formidable electoral inheritance, upon which it was to build still further. |
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The effectiveness of these tactics earned Vikings a formidable reputation as raiders and pirates. |
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In World War II, it was recognised that the Rhine would present a formidable natural obstacle to the invasion of Germany, by the Western Allies. |
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However, even an injured walrus is a formidable opponent for a polar bear, and direct attacks are rare. |
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They would raid monasteries for their wealth and lack of formidable defenders. |
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However, these plans were eventually abandoned, due to the formidable logistical challenge this would have posed. |
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From then on, over many decades, the Plymouth constabulary grew in size and discipline to a formidable force. |
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Nevertheless, the increasing strength of the Arians proved a formidable task for Ambrose. |
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In their first contacts with native peoples, the firearms, including arquebuses, used by the conquistadors were formidable weapons. |
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When Tsar Samuil saw the broken remains of his once formidable army, he died of shock. |
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Unlike the formidable women of his grandfather's day, Kublai's wives and daughters were an almost invisible presence. |
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The Republic of Venice had become a formidable power, and a key player in the Eastern spice trade. |
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Protestant preachers rallied a considerable army and a formidable cavalry, which came under the leadership of Admiral Gaspard de Coligny. |
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They were described as formidable warriors and ferocious cannibals, builders of the finest vessels in the Pacific, but not great sailors. |
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Lace and ruff collars were unavoidable, and presented a formidable challenge to painters intent on realism. |
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Their marriage having broken down in 1604, his wife Elizabeth went on to become a formidable protagonist and thorn in his side. |
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After several years, Fairchild developed into a formidable presence in the sector. |
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And yet despite his formidable record and undoubted importance in the history of technology, Evans never became a household name. |
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Gaining access to every apartment to open the vents and enter the ducting has been a formidable drawback. |
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The Rajput is the most worthy antagonist, the Mahratta the most formidable enemy. |
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The Indian war rockets were formidable weapons before such rockets were used in Europe. |
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But it was the set of her jaw and the coolness in her green eyes that made me feel how really formidable she was. |
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Given Frank's bankerly appearance, one might have expected him to be a somewhat stern and formidable personality. |
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With one blow of the axe, Captain Nemo cut this formidable tentacle, that slid wriggling down the ladder. |
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This circus is in the UK with its show, Yin Yang, and features the formidable Shaolin Warrior known only as The One. |
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The Hobblers have all the guile in midfield in Paul Gascoigne and David Beckham, but not such a formidable attack in Andy Cole and Paul Scholes. |
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Home invasion robbery represents an especially troubling crime trend and a formidable challenge to law enforcement. |
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The formidable Irishwoman was enrolled as a Special Constable during the Paisley riots when the Irish Home Rulers clashed with the Orangemen. |
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The Whiteboys, the most formidable of the agrarian rebels, had things their own way for nearly five years in spite of occasional capital convictions. |
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Of these, the Sarmatians and the Dacians posed the most formidable threat. |
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That helped the Windies to a formidable 205-4 in their 20 overs. |
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Rollo's son and heir, William Longsword, and grandchild, Richard the Fearless, forged the Duchy of Normandy into West Francia's most cohesive and formidable principality. |
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He sees the work of Perrault as the most formidable undertaking of interpretation and re-appropriation of the ideas of these three literary figures of the Grand Siecle. |
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The Iberian Saracens had incorporated Berber lighthorse cavalry with the heavy Arab cavalry to create a formidable army that had almost never been defeated. |
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On 26 January 1569, Mary was moved to Tutbury Castle and placed in the custody of the Earl of Shrewsbury and his formidable wife Bess of Hardwick. |
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The English king, Edward II, assembled a formidable force to relieve it. |
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After using his formidable artillery train to take Norham Castle he marched south, where the invasion was stopped decisively on 9 September 1513 at the Battle of Flodden. |
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With its formidable, in-yourface looks, this spacious, yet sophisticated, highly manoeuvrable and extremely comfortable truck has set the standard. |
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Veteran former Welsh international tighthead Jones remains a formidable scrummager, and is sure to be seeking to make a big impression on his Harlequins league debut. |
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George was removed from the beach by stretcher and ended up on a tank landing ship that, having unloaded its formidable cargo, began serving as a hospital ship. |
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Under such circumstances, it was not possible for Milch, Udet, or Kesselring to produce a formidable strategic bombing force even had they wanted to do so. |
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Wordsworth remained a formidable presence in his later years. |
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Nicholas was a member of the European Solheim Cup team in 1990, 1992, 1994, 1996, 1998 and 2000 forming a formidable partnership with Laura Davies. |
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Despite this, his reputation abroad was formidable, and noble or learned foreigners who came to England never forgot to pay their respects to the old philosopher. |
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He soon showed himself to be a formidable tactician and leader. |
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For all the barriers placed to prosecution, and separating the branches of government, English law still had ancient and formidable customs of authority. |
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Although these challenges are formidable, the authors concluded that with long-term commitment and sustained effort, malaria radication could be achieved. |
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Early in the 3rd century Germanic peoples migrated south from Scandinavia and reached the Black Sea, creating formidable confederations which opposed the local Sarmatians. |
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With great clarity, she steadily and captivatingly unwinds the complicated threads of her narrative, explicating formidable scholarship while keeping the twins at the fore. |
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Fox-Genovese and Genovese treat the formidable champions of Slavery in the Abstract with deserved respect while frankly discussing their subjects' intellectual shortcomings. |
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A former Chesapeake Bay crabber who easily tossed around 100-pound, ice-laden crates of crustaceans in his youth, Kirk Bloodsworth remains a formidable physical presence. |
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Dalla Bennetta can act, has a formidable coloratura and a lovely legato line, but, more to the point, also has thrilling top notes and fortissimi. |
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At first glance it would seem difficult to fathom the rise of Nazism in a country that was long the source of formidable humanistic scholarship and scientific achievements. |
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The runner-up, Karan Takhar, a 14-year-old from East Providence, Rhode Island, put up a formidable challenge and fought Nathan to a sudden-death tiebreaker round. |
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The Cyprus Moufflons face a formidable opponent when they meet Lithuania at the Paphiacos Stadium in Paphos on Saturday in the European Rugby Nations Cup. |
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The four kings that followed Tullus continued the Roman tradition of endless war, with campaigns against formidable foes like the Veii, the Aequans and the Volscians. |
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And then there's the formidable nature of Helen Mirren's Dean Hardscrabble, a tough-talking leader with a face like a nibbled chocolate bourbon biscuit. |
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Herschelle Gibbs and Graeme Smith are formidable hitters and they have some good manoeuvrers like AB de Villiers and JP Duminy in the middle order. |
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Along the way we stopped by Muckross House in the breathtaking Killarney National Park, with the formidable Macgillycuddy's Reeks mountain range providing the backdrop. |
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Yes, Jenny, Wendi and Susie form a formidable triptych of crotchetiness. |
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According to extensive research conducted by Estee Lauder's formidable labs, exfoliation isn't necessarily the anti-ager it was previously thought to be. |
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The team, which will comprise three stayers, one puppy, one dog and a sprinter, looks quite formidable judged on what turned out to be a dramatic session. |
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