The task facing the IMF is formidable.

Commercializing existing research findings is a formidable task for many developing countries.

We understand that the task is formidable, that it will be costly.

The task of defending its interests in Afghanistan after US withdrawal is a truly formidable challenge for Chinese diplomacy.

This is, of course, a formidable task that may have to be accomplished at a time when Congress opposes monetary tightening.

While that task was formidable, it was of vital importance for ensuring the safety and security of all United Nations personnel, operations and premises.

Kerry s formidable task is to persuade the Palestinians to accept a smaller state than they want and the Israelis to accept a smaller state than they have.

Both countries face formidable resistance to reform from formidable vested interests and lobby groups.

We now know that canonical macroeconomic models do not adequately allow for financial market fragilities, and that fixing the models while retaining their tractability is a formidable task.

The challenges ahead are formidable.

Each of these tasks is formidable.

The obstacles to disarmament are formidable.

Against these formidable minuses are three pluses.

The new government will face formidable challenges.

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The organization of three simultaneous elections on 30 January was a formidable feat, matched by a formidable statement of support from voters throughout most of Iraq.

Reaching a national consensus will be a formidable task for the Constituent Assembly, and meanwhile the Nepali people cannot be expected to wait patiently until a new constitution is drafted to see real improvement in their daily lives.

That s what happened 30 years ago, when economic reform began. And it needs to happen again today. For China, a soft landing will provide a window of opportunity to press ahead with the formidable task of increasingly urgent economic rebalancing.

Moreover, his wife is a star in her own formidable right.

The challenges confronting international peace and security are formidable and many.

Achieving the target of environmental sustainability is also a formidable challenge.

In the limited time that remained, and in the face of such a formidable task, it was incumbent on each State party to ensure the success of the Conference and to channel its creative and cooperative energy into achieving an agreed document.

The Almaty Programme of Action recognized that the cost implications of meeting the requirements for establishing and maintaining efficient transit transport systems were of such a magnitude that the landlocked and transit developing countries could not by themselves accomplish that formidable task.

The Islamic Brotherhood in Egypt, despite being banned, is a formidable organization.

The palace was formidable, with walls strong enough to withstand artillery fire.

It has clout and respect in its own region with formidable fighting forces.

He was a formidable politician and a moderate politician, a friend of all.

Nor is the presence of America s formidable might in today s Iraq comforting to them.

Currently, NPT faced formidable challenges which could jeopardize its entire process and multilateral principles.

Formulated in such terms, the European challenge seems even more formidable than the American one.

Concerns such as these are likely to increase as China emerges as a formidable development player.

The White House s current occupant is a more formidable obstacle to reform, but change is coming.

In earlier times with no formidable adversaries in the political arena, this was a harmless affectation.

While China may be a ravenous importer of Latin American commodities, it is also a formidable competitor.

In addition, the administrative difficulties of instituting a comprehensive wealth tax are formidable, raising questions about fairness.

And, in the spring of 2009, the presidential campaign in Iran evinced a formidable craving for freedom.

Thus, it becomes a formidable challenge to the European Union to offer anything but welcome to Ukraine.

Nevertheless, women and girls in Afghanistan remain beset with formidable security, economic, social and human rights challenges.

The challenge is more formidable with regard to girls' secondary schools, which are very few and scattered.

Despite these gains, women and girls in Afghanistan face formidable security, human rights, social and economic challenges.

Task forces

From the Chinese point of view, Russia was a formidable European power, one feared by other Western powers.

Its economic clout remains formidable, and its commercial and cultural ties to the West are broad and varied.

You have heightened brain activity when you're doing a comparable task, when that one task is creative and the other task is memorized.