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.

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

The challenges ahead are formidable.

Each of these tasks is formidable.

The obstacles to disarmament are formidable.

How could a small militia, numbering less than a few thousand combatants, survive the onslaught of the Middle East s most formidable military machine?

Against these formidable minuses are three pluses.

The new government will face formidable challenges.

The task facing the IMF is formidable.

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.

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On June 7, a hundred cars blocked roads in central Minsk to protest a 30 increase in fuel prices a daring act in Europe's most formidable police state.

But the foundations of the old PRI corporativist system created in the 1930 s remain untouched, and represent the main and most formidable obstacles to Mexico s growth and success.

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.

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

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

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

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

He has been a forthright spokesman for women s rights and a champion of environmental concerns, as well as a formidable advocate in arguing for debt reduction for the most heavily indebted nations.

In 1991, America forged the most formidable international coalition since World War II, and led it in a fully legitimate war aimed at restoring regional balance after Saddam Hussein s invasion of Kuwait.

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.

Most important, the TAP would create a sense of a shared future for the Americas. It could become a formidable force supporting free trade, investment, prosperity, and indeed peace in a multi polar world.

At the same time, France has given a strong mandate to its new president, Nicolas Sarkozy, who is without question the most formidable political adversary the ECB has had to face in its brief history.

Sub Saharan Africa, where poverty, malnutrition, unemployment, under employment and conflict had led to a significant shortfall in health and educational services, continued to present the world with the most formidable and daunting development challenges.

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.

Not only has Bush destroyed Iran s most formidable enemy and bogged down US troops in a hopeless cause he also has enriched energy abundant Iran and Russia by pursuing a war that has dramatically raised energy prices.

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.

Given the formidable logistical challenges with which they were confronted, the organizers did a remarkable job and the Congolese people responded magnificently by voting in large numbers in most parts of the country, in a positive and peaceful atmosphere.

Recognize that HIV AIDS constitutes a global emergency and poses one of the most formidable challenges to the development, progress and stability of our respective societies and the world at large, and requires an exceptional and comprehensive global response

This highly uncertain state of affairs, after almost four decades of occupation and on top of five years of conflict and economic decline, poses formidable, seemingly insurmountable obstacles to PA policymakers in most spheres, including economic and development policy.