Formidable Quotations

Without social cohesion, the human race wouldn't be here: We're not formidable enough to survive without the tactics, rules and strategies that allow people to work together.

The pen is a formidable weapon, but a man can kill himself with it a great deal more easily than he can other people.

Courage and grace are a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is in the bullring.

China and Russia are regarded as the most formidable cyber threats.

There are certainly areas in the rotation at which we can improve, like any club. But you look at what we have and it's something definitely we can work with. We have history and we have depth. Those two things give us a chance, once again, to be a formidable staff.

We still think it's doable. But it's obvious we are faced with some formidable challenges. We're not able to use the Superdome and we have to determine what options are available to us.

What little man has to accomplish must be done quickly, at the place that is assigned to him and within the time that is allotted to him. And, man has such a formidable task before him; it is to fulfill it that he has come as man, exchanging for this human habitat all the merit he has acquired during many past lives. The task is no less than the manifestation of the Divinity latent in man.

With the players we lost, we were hoping we'd be happy to be able to put together a formidable defense,

The Roman government appeared every day less formidable to its enemies, more odious and oppressive to its subjects.

Prayer is our most formidable weapon, the thing which makes all else we do efficient.

There are formidable risks in trying to cover this conflict. Large swaths of the country are simply too dangerous to cover.

Yes, it is satisfactory the way we finished the first game but there are still three matches to go. I can't say after one victory that we will make it 4-0 because Kenya have a knack to upset world's formidable sides.

We have rejigged the one-day side to what we hope will provide a range of options to take on a formidable World XI side, as well as forming the nucleus of the 2007 squad for the World Cup.

This race has gone from being one-sided to competitive. I think we make a mistake to think that Al Gore is being routed out of this campaign. He's still in the lead and he's the formidable candidate.

Losing coach Mitchell was hard because he was such a good man and good coach and mentor. But coach Hill hasn't lost a beat. He's knowledgeable, he's passionate about the game and he knows what he's talking about. He wants us to be better. We didn't lose anything there. As far as the scheme, it's taken some getting used to ? that happens any time ? but we're learning it quickly. I think it will be a formidable defense when we learn it.

Seagate is the most formidable force in the hard-disk-drive industry. This just makes them a more formidable force.

Should the lieutenant governor decide to run, he will be a very formidable candidate and someone who will also have the resources necessary to mount a successful campaign.

Since the 1990s, the economy has been bogged down. New players have emerged. They are formidable in Asia, but also present in Latin America and in Central and Eastern Europe.

Mr. Halter's education in California and England, in addition to his time in Washington, will make him a formidable debater.

Moody is a complex, challenging character. Brendan brought a great balance of ferociousness and humor to the role that makes him both formidable and lovable.

Point Determined is just coming around, learning what it's all about, and he ran a very good race. A.P. Warrior turned around and ran one of his best races. I think they are both moving forward and they should be formidable foes.

From its inception, the Tomcat has been the icon of Naval Aviation with its striking appearance, speed, formidable lethality, and versatility. It is more capable today than at any other time during its existence because of the innovation, dedication, and tenacity of every maintainer and pilot who has ever been associated with it.

Given the weather conditions and the formidable terrain in Alaska, the safe landing of the aircraft without injury to the crew was a remarkable display of airmanship on the part of the pilot.

GOD is all-powerful; God is everywhere; God is all knowing. To adore such a formidable limitless principle, man spends a few minutes out of the 24 hours and uses a minute idol, image or picture! It is indeed ridiculous; it is practically futile. Adore Him so long as you have breath and so long as you are conscious. Have no other thought than God, have no other aim than knowing His command; no other activity than translating that command into action. That is what is meant by Surrender. Surrender yourself unto Him.

Formidable is that enemy that lies hid in a man's own breast

He was up against a bigger and formidable opponent in Jackson and despite these odds, he still won by a fall in 1:10 of the first round.

He had better velocity than he's had and he had good location. Those guys are formidable hitters, and we knew that.

He is a formidable candidate. I think he will do well and we should be proud to have a favorite son running for state wide office.

We can do it four times in a row. We have a formidable team... our batting is quite potent and our spin bowlers have been doing the trick for us all season.

He's a very formidable personality when it comes to Washington, D.C.

There is among French men and women a formidable desire, a taste for entrepreneurship.

He was a very strong, formidable candidate and there are options that would make him a strong candidate even if he doesn't succeed legally. This is not the last chapter of this story.

I would suggest that both Nintendo and Microsoft are going to be very formidable opponents. In the case of Microsoft, given the size of the corporate treasure chest, whatever it takes will be spent to move the product.

ISYS has been an integral part of the knowledge management industry for a number of years. The company continues to demonstrate its relevance and success in enterprise search software, despite formidable competition from large, well-known companies. For these reasons, we continue to recognize ISYS as one of the 100 companies that matter.

It appears we'll be every bit as formidable as we've ever been in the past. I really like the front and really like the linebackers.

I think their strategy is to be as ubiquitous as Walgreen's. They're a very good operator, a formidable rival to Walgreen's.

I think it's obvious, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, we are faced with some formidable challenges. It's difficult to go forward when you are ejected from your home venue. ... First and foremost in our thinking is that we want - in every way possible - to conduct our event in the state of Louisiana.

I think that the difficulty for Al Gore is that he started with the sense that the nomination was coming his way, that major opponents like (House Minority Leader) Dick Gephardt and (Nebraska Sen.) Bob Kerrey dropped out. I don't think he realized how formidable the challenge would be coming from Bill Bradley or just in general.

I think we're in good shape. Harbor's always a formidable opponent. We'll have to be ready to play.

I think there's a moment here. Notre Dame is becoming a formidable opponent again. They're both back. This is good stuff. That's when this game is at its best, when both teams are good. I wouldn't want to miss this.

I think there's a moment here, ... Notre Dame is becoming a formidable opponent again. They're both back. This is good stuff. That's when this game is at its best, when both teams are good. I wouldn't want to miss this.

Pittsburgh's one of the hottest, most formidable teams in the league. Right now we're up against one of the hottest teams in the league. Miami is playing as good as anybody is.

Pittsburgh has turned into a rivalry game for us. They certainly have become a formidable opponent, an obstacle for us to get to a championship, or for seeding, or quite frankly just to get wins.

Paul Kellogg has been a beloved and visionary leader of City Opera and we will miss him deeply. During the past ten years we have been fortunate to have had the benefit not only of his extraordinary artistic sensibility, his wise counsel and his inspirational leadership, but also of his impeccable human values, warmth and charm. That said, we cannot help but understand that he wishes to have more personal time after many years of service to the arts and we salute and thank him for his formidable accomplishments and significant contributions both to City Opera and to opera in general. Paul Kellogg's vision for City Opera has charted our course for the coming years. We are grateful beyond measure and will miss him profoundly.

Mark was trusted by Labor as a thinker, as a formidable parliamentarian, as a moving advocate of Labor's great ideals. But almost more than this, Labor put its faith in Mark Latham because the caucus wanted to register its protest about the corrosion of its internal culture. In electing Mark, Labor caucus said to the world and to itself that it wanted to change for the better. And I believe it has.

Matching their strength will be a priority. Regardless of who is picked, they will be a formidable side.

I think I have a lot more experience than he does with municipal matters, having four years in government already. However, he's an extremely popular and a wise man, and he'll be a formidable opponent.

(Williams has) added punch to their offense. He's a guy who can tag-team with Ronnie Brown and become a formidable running back duo, so we have to be prepared for that.

Wil Wheaton, Patrick Stewart and Jonathan Frakes were all the early formidable crushes of my girlhood.

Were winning the fight, but they are a very formidable competitor. Intel has managed to put everybody else out of the business except us. So it's a two-man game right now. We're the challenger, they're the champion. But I think we've got a great chance here to continue to gain market share.

Were winning the fight, but they are a very formidable competitor,

The question always presents itself: How formidable are the challengers? Early measures show them leading by very narrow margins, and the preferences are party based. It's way too early to say whether the challengers will be formidable.

Today's CIO confronts a formidable array of management and technical issues. The good news is that as they face challenges and opportunities, they benefit from the federal marketplace reforms put in place by the Clinger-Cohen Act.

We'd like to play against their very best. Just because we're not doesn't mean we won't play our hardest. (Richmond) is still a formidable team.

The superiority...enjoyed by nations that have...perfected a branch of industry, constitutes a...formidable obstacle.

(Trump) is a formidable candidate for anything he decides to run for. We would love to see him run for president of the United States in 2008 as a third-party candidate. I'd do what I could to help give him a strong base here in New York and everywhere else in the country.

When you include the issues that can occur during the processing and distribution stages as well as transport, designing an ocean cargo policy that addresses the full scope of potential pitfalls can be a formidable task. The broad, automatic features and streamlined reporting process offered through Cargo Elite makes it an ideal product for importers and exporters.

What's in it for them ? who knows? Maybe they just feel it's a chance to weaken the ACT Party and Rodney who would be a nuisance, he's a formidable person... frankly from the point of view of self interest it's almost like nuisance litigation.

This was a very good road win for us. Kenyon's a formidable foe early in the year.

This union creates a new force with a powerhouse of talent and technology. The industry can expect us to move quickly to be a formidable player in our key market segments.

With Honda he has the potential to be a formidable competitor. We've worked with Honda in the past and they've proved they will do whatever it takes to get the job done.

We just need to take it one game at a time. Obviously, the most formidable opponent is Stanford. We just need to come out and play hard and try to salvage this road trip.

Boosting the industry's workforce with fresh animators to enable the studios to meet global demand is the most formidable challenge the industry faces.

CONTEMPT, n. The feeling of a prudent man for an enemy who is too formidable safely to be opposed.

Ed's unique abilities and formidable track record, along with his deep understanding of and appreciation for the things that make FAO Schwarz so different and so wonderful, make him an unusually good fit for this role.

There's obviously going to be more rain in the bucket. But they're not going to be as formidable as the front that moved in today. Cumulatively, the next several days may get as much, but not in that short period of time.

The time has come to move this tournament to a new level, ... By putting the formidable expertise, commitment, assets and knowledge of the NCAA behind this tournament, what we've done is to take a New York icon and given it a chance to be something even better.

Schilling is one game. It will be nice to get him back. But I also think we have some pretty good guys. That's a formidable rotation. But if we want our ace back, he's going to be it.

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Once we do that for longer periods and more consistently throughout Test matches we should be a force to be reckon with against a formidable Black Cap team.

Actually, Governor Bush last week was so generous and gracious in his comments and wished me well and said I would be a formidable candidate.

As a writer, I have this compulsion to take characters who appear formidable and bombard them with adversity until they crumble. What's interesting is watching them rise again, and seeing how they've changed and grown, if indeed they have.

This game is crucial. Boys' Town have been playing well all season and have been formidable opponents not just for us but for every team they have faced.

This is a mature industry. You're really talking top-line growth in the 3 percent range, and here you have Wal-Mart, a very formidable competitor, adding as much square footage every year as the top three competitors combined,

They're young, but they're very good. They have some players at the top of their lineup that have beaten us in the past, so it's going to be a formidable challenge for us, no question about it.

They tell us sir that we are weak, unable to cope with so formidable an advesary.But when shall we be stronger?

They are formidable and they are very fine lawyers, and I think they and their lawsuit have to be taken seriously.

They're certainly a formidable opponent. There's no doubt in our mind that we have to play well because we know they can beat us.

They're a very formidable foe and it took an effort to beat them. It's nice getting back home after our only loss of the season and have the fans behind us. This was a much-needed win in the tough Western Division.

They're equipped with a pretty formidable set of teeth.

As we grieve the passing of John McMullen, we celebrate his life of extraordinary accomplishment and the formidable contribution he made to the success of the National Hockey League, ... His foresight brought a franchise to New Jersey and his fervent support helped build the Devils into champions. Our deepest condolences go to his family and to the Devils' organization, which has lost its cherished patriarch.

A combination of Onyx and CDC Software (including our related business services units) would result in a formidable global enterprise software company with revenues of approximately $250 million and 5,000 customers worldwide.

It's a small number, but it's not unusual for an entrepreneur who goes looking for money and is turned down to go back, retool their business plan and come back at them again, ... It's not as formidable as it sounds.

It's a tough tour. We had a taste of the sub-continent before Christmas and going to India now, they are a formidable side, we know it's going to be hard, but for the past few weeks we've trained hard and I'm looking forward to going.

It's a great win, against a great team. That's one of the best teams in the nation. It's a veteran team. They have a lot of confidence, and they've beaten a lot of formidable opponents. To come up here today, I think our defense showed the lacrosse world that they're capable of winning some games.

It is the formidable character of the species to routinely seek the improbable, the difficult, even the impossible, as a source of pleasure and self-justification. Who would try to write poems, or novels, or paint pictures unless he is an optimist?

Dale brings incredible passion and a formidable base of knowledge to this role. We are fortunate to have her vision and leadership as we work to educate Californians about the cost of marriage discrimination and how a repeal of domestic partnership protections would hurt California families.

That's the biggest play of the game. That and the walks. We scattered around a lot of hits, and they scattered around some hits and some walks. They have a formidable lineup and do enough damage without us walking them.

It's something we've thought about. We are concerned about it. Senior Night is always a personal game, and we have a formidable task. I remember playing Notre Dame, going down, 17-1. We're fully aware of it.

It's an element of the modern game that is under-used, but - as England also showed against Australia - if you've got a formidable set piece you have to use it.

Nothing has changed in our approach. We need to go out there and do what we do best, better than we have been doing it. We have one of the best teams in world rugby coming to our shores. They have some great players, and we have a huge regard for French rugby and their style of play. They will be formidable opponents, and with the championship at stake, they will be making sure they go home with a victory.

The U.S. oil companies have a lot of clout but they are up against a formidable set of farm senators. A pretty strong lobby in the farm sector says we should hold off (lifting the duties).

They damned near cleaned our clock. They were a formidable enemy. I threw myself into a bomb crater and there were two marines there and I realized I was the only one alive. It was an incredibly bitter battle, so I'd like Eastwood to do something that would bring us together.

They can run or post you up. They're a very formidable team, out of a very strong conference.

The new company will be a formidable group and able to follow a more expansive strategy. Competition is done with economies of scale. It will be able to diversify into sectors such as ports and airports.

Every Western industrialised nation faces the same issues of an ageing society that needs migrants, a sceptical public and some hostile media. In supporting migrants, we do face formidable challenges but I'm still optimistic; we just have to focus on bringing together the needs of our societies and the aspirations of migrant families.

I love reading other people's diaries, especially someone like Virginia Woolf's - such a formidable woman that it's a revelation when she shows you a more vulnerable side of herself.

In his personal relations he was unpretentious to the point of being casual, almost as if to put friends and colleagues at ease with his vast knowledge of history, remarkable grasp of the law, and a mind so precise he was at once formidable and delightful.

Integration is a formidable challenge. It's not so much a question of any individual player or a particular product; it's just a matter of whether they can dance together.

In supporting migrants, we do face formidable challenges but I'm still optimistic.