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A formidable Polish beauty, Lola was an exotic nouveau-riche specimen who taught her daughter the power of a good story.

Despite growing up in a village near Bainitang himself, Mr Liu's challenge in taking up the case was a formidable one.

After several years of development, the Company now owns a formidable technology power and its products are sold well at home and abroad.

It is one of Europe's busiest waterways, a formidable conduit that handles millions of tonnes of traffic a year.

Just as we have expected, the formidable connoisseur of vintages did not disappoint all the guests.

So far, at least, it might not satisfy those who want their morality to be awesome, formidable, transcendent or great.

The noise of the hinge rang in his ears with something of the piercing and formidable sound of the trump of the Day of Judgment.

Sometimes, late at night it will let us be lonely, that formidable sexual desire longed for that will float the heart.

Now, in the face of a formidable "no" campaign, it is trying to scare them into doing so.

All this means that for the Castros, Barack Obama may turn into a far more formidable foe than his predecessors.

It sums up the company well: an electronics manufacturer of formidable scope, but traditional and with a miserly eye on costs.

But in addition to the formidable policy challenges ahead of him, Donilon faces obstacles in shaping the policy process.

I'd expected to be punished, but I didn't realize that Hattie's anger would be such a formidable companion.

The recent fiscal consolidation measures made the matter far worse by widening an already formidable deflationary gap even wider.

In primitive times, nature appeared to be a mysterious and formidable force and men found themselves powerless in the face of it.

China demonstrated its formidable negotiating skills in bringing about an outcome that suits it better than any other nation.

This sets it apart from the formidable competition that, in New York, seems to renew itself on an almost monthly basis.

With his formidable connections, negotiating skills and charm, he took to it like a duck to water.

By contrast, China's size, economic success and authoritarian ideology combine to make it a formidable challenger to the US.

The enemy's attack was more formidable than we had expected.

He was one of the most formidable intellects of his time.

Kop legend Kenny Dalglish believes Rafa Benitez is finding the right formula to turn Liverpool into a formidable force away from home.

The molecular Hamiltonian is formidable enough to strike terror into the heart of any quantum chemist.

It has been formidable for text, still images and music, but is only now, with broadband access, entering an age of high-quality video.

There is no doubt that world events have given the United States and China a full and formidable agenda.

because he, along with the formidable bait also swallowed the little nothing, and he spent some time trying to regurgitate it.

For the moment at least, China is far less formidable than hawks on both sides claim.

You mean China will respect the President, s choices. They are beginning to realize how formidable this "community organizer" really is!

The New Year is a time for resolutions. Mentally, at least, most of us could compile formidable lists of 'dos' and 'don'ts'.

Pragmatism can be very formidable, both as a strategy and a tactic.

Since it could be a formidable task, after a while the other directors were disinclined to pick a fight with him.

"The challenge of terrorism is a formidable challenge, and requires a comprehensive strategy of counterterrorism, " he said.

Without himself suspecting the fact, Javert in his formidable happiness was to be pitied , as is every ignorant man who triumphs.

Solving any one of these problems by itself would be a formidable task.

Its headline-grabbing stunts have made it one of the most formidable global lobbyists against the exploitation of animals.

Yet for all that, the task of moving a bank's headquarters would be formidable.

And the iPhone's processing power makes it a formidable challenger to hand-helds like Nintendo DS and Sony PSP. And then some.

A formidable prospect lies ahead of him.

Perhaps the builders had heard of a new, formidable enemy that they had not.

Is not an understanding of the people is the most formidable enemy, the enemy appears to be no real terrible enemy.

If he practiced what he preached, Dr. Patel would be a formidable force at the poker table.

By Sith tradition, Dooku adopted the name Darth Tyranus and added deceit and treachery to his already formidable array of weapons.

What also used to be modest meat and dairy enterprises have grown into formidable agri-businesses dominating Paraguayan livestock farming.

I concur it is a formidable challenge, but not so much that we cannot at least try to find ways to improve it.

As a Polish dissident Mr Michnik was one of communism's most formidable foes.

Cerberus wants you to assemble a formidable team to assist and provides you with two human officers of its own.

But moving the SDR back to the prominent place it was designed to occupy would be a formidable political and logistical task.

Her skill as a politician, alternately charming and vicious, made her a formidable presence.

The owls ' formidable talons can carry birds up to the size of a chicken.

He is internationally known as the most formidable politician. His confidence , grace can be seen through the eyes of foreigners!

She was a formidable style of lady, with spectacles, a prominent nose, and a loud voice.

And with Bing starting to steal some market share from Google, it's proving to be a formidable opponent.

Notwithstanding the formidable power of public opinion, but it is by a group of ignorant fools to create out of complacency.

Once my mother and I a few decades back and war, my mother was exhausted I was playing, throwing a helmet unloaded, I formidable bar.

An aged priestly warrior towered up, august and formidable, with his hand upon his dagger.

When he drew upon the Force to do battle, however, he overcame his otherwise brutish, clumsy nature to become a formidable opponent.

If he throws himself into his part with all of his formidable energy, his partners will respond in kind.

This question has certain mysterious, almost formidable sides; may we be permitted to look at it fixedly.

With her management skills and his marketing experts, they make a formidable combination.

The last is of the drippy scion of the once-formidable founding family, who fails even to announce the paper's closure properly.

In other words, on the surface looks like is "small and weak rational" , in fact also may be formidable.

But, even as the Arctic warms, seemingly irrevocably, it is still a formidable environment in which to operate, particularly in the winter.

Alas, the qualities that had made her a formidable revolutionary proved a liability in government.

Golda Meir, Israel Once called "the only man in the Cabinet, " Golda Meir was a formidable figure in Israeli politics.

In exit polls, Obama won a majority among voters making under $50, 000 a year and a formidable two-thirds of all male voters.

Fittingly for his formidable reputation, he was also known as Arthur Pendragon.

One Saturday, Mrs. Barnett, the head librarian, summoned me to the circulation desk, a formidable walnut fortress.

Master Roshi , who appears to be a wise but feeble old man, reveals that he is a master of the "Kamehameha" an ancient and formidable force.

Within a few months I became his most formidable disciple and I adopted his outlook on life.

When he became DPJ president in 2006, he transformed it from an entity once mocked as amateurish into a formidable opponent to the LDP.

He took on the formidable task of reforming the whole system.

The company has one batch experienced, the specialized designer team and the formidable specialized construction troop.

She was small, softly spoken and beautiful, but she was also formidable.

With the increase of the system scale, the number of users is also increasing and this makes the user-to-role assignment a formidable work.

The regime surely did not fear Mousavi, who is a pretty tame sort of reformer, or even his formidable wife.

That wouldn't be all that surprising if Christensen weren't a writer of such formidable talents.

Like German expressionist images of the war, these formidable scenes convey the mess, filth, exhaustion and futility of the western front.

It is hard to see how these formidable Chinese women can fit any children into their impossibly busy lives, but most of them do.

He's shaping up to be a rather formidable actor.

The elegant right-hander's versatility made him a formidable adversary in crunch times.

From the air, the Gros Ventre Range looks like a formidable obstacle, but it's familiar ground for the migrating Grand Teton pronghorn herd.

Kennedy, whose mother, Rose, was as formidable a figure in the Kennedy family as her husband, Joe.

I should have left well-being, but it's strange than the last time she was also formidable.

But Woori's large market capitalization and complicated local laws pose a formidable challenge to any purchaser.

But apart from its sensible economic policies, the country benefits from the formidable positioning of its manufacturing sector.

Over the years he proved to be a formidable opponent of the Pakistani army.

The US is still a formidable military superpower but its international influence is in steep decline.

But if the signs in the laboratory look propitious, out in the fields the distribution problems are formidable.

Once I got over my formidable apprehension, I found Margaret to be warm and engaging, full of hard-won insights.

It is no secret that Obama doesn't like Romney, but after the first debate he might admit that Romney is a formidable opponent after all.

"It's the only world organisation we've got, " he says as a formidable dessert of summer pudding arrives.

The blending of these two continuity levels produces a sophisticated, exacting, and formidable visual specter.

Conscious of his formidable reputation and his current strains, few will talk about Mr Ospel publicly.

When, after many years of exploration, pioneers reach the foothills, the ascent looks formidable or impossible.

Biden said Sunday that he considers Palin, a newcomer on the national political scene, to be a formidable opponent.

This adds up to a formidable list of qualifications.

Competition from the big local banks, only recently recapitalised, will prove formidable as they develop greater product sophistication.

Would it be one of those traditional houses with formidable red gates and paper lanterns hanging from each side?

Stephen Hawking, the most revered scientist since Einstein, is a formidable mathematician and a formidable salesman.

Some of those partners are turning into formidable competitors themselves, with ambitions both in their own markets and further afield.

So to save endangered rare animals is a matter of great concern to mankind, the China Wildlife Conservation work is a formidable task.

For instance, formidable means of incentive enable judge with every effort to fall behind on the work load other judges.

A formidable assertion of military force responsible for the death and mutilation of thousands upon thousands of innocent people.

The "mask" to choose alternative national day exhibition stalls , there is no competition with a formidable enemy.

Solving those riddles might be the most formidable challenge yet for the vaccine field.

Rigid training and strict discipline has turned them into a formidable fighting force.

Since we have U. S. Japan Mutual Defense Treaty there, why do they need such a formidable military?

However, once the administrator' s exertion of power disobeys the law, the restriction of the administrator will become a formidable task.

Mentally, at least, most of us could compile formidable lists of "dos'and 'don'ts. '"

China's formidable structural and organizational weaknesses must be addressed systematically.

Formidable His mother is a most formidable lady.

Though Asajj and Durge had to flee the Naboo moon, they had proven to be formidable opponents against the Jedi.

Japanese commanders actively encouraged the dehumanisation of their troops in the belief it would make them more formidable.

And its formidable intellectuals, entrepreneurs, Bollywood stars and diaspora give tremendous "soft" power.

The tens of thousands of buyers who recently descended on southern China were a formidable sight.

Mentally, at least, most of us could compile formidable lists of "do's" and "don'ts" .

As a Dorin, Koon naturally possessed highly developed extrasensory organs that supplement his already formidable Jedi attributes.

With this milestone in the coming time, the teams are preparing for "a formidable enemy. "

Smart politicians are always in short supply, however, and I think the odds against this effort are formidable.

The French secret service was also poised to undertake, if necessary, the liquidation of the dictators' most formidable rivals.

Like Henry's speech, the arrival of the formidable Elvish archers of the last minute, inspires the defenders of Helm's Deep.

with the addition of a shield , many single handed weapon users will become formidable opponents even for pole arms users.

Some analysts say the LDP remains a formidable electoral machine, and that past election results have sometimes confounded poll predictions.

However, while creating a "formidable competitor in Russia" , PepsiCo's move may not be the setback for Danone that it first appears.

Many analysts feel that if he does decide to contest the election, General Fonseka will pose a formidable challenge to Mr Rajapaksa.

The challenges posed by a country leaving the single currency, however, would be formidable.

If it lacks the effective self-control, all of formidable society controls will change palely and weakly.

Sirte, their next target and Col. Gadhafi's birthplace, may prove to be a formidable challenge.

Helen was able to inject both colour and humour into his rather formidable subject.

It was a formidable campaign; a nocturnal battle against pestilence and suffocation.

The construction of new countryside anxiously needs the formidable industry supports, but existing rural enterprises are incompetent.

The Turkish army must play to its strengths, namely its formidable mounted archers and janissary units.

The Luo silk does not appreciate his work, thinks boorishly , but she the formidable strength which is manifested by the work moves.

His formidable father, played by Michael Gambon with England's gruffest beard, makes clear to him that this is a new media age.

Innovation is a nation's soul and formidable spiritual strength to help a country grow continually.

He displayed remarkable energy and became the most formidable personality among the defendants.

This one is more interesting and better fun, a formidable leader looking back on her early winning battles.

They faced formidable difficulties in their attempt to complete the task.

When they are apart, they are formidable air defense machines used for high-altitude and high-speed missions.

The formidable physique of a zealot is further enhanced by cybernetic implants and their coveted power suit.

Over five decades as defence minister, he built the army into a formidable force.

That's more than three times the size of the formidable great white shark. It also makes the whale shark the largest fish living today.

He WAS able to inject both color and humor into his rather formidable subject.

" In the money supply and credit growth more tight situations, " there will always be good formidable.

They faced formidable difficulties in their attempt to reach the South Pole.

Asia's challenges remain formidable, and its future prosperity must be earned.

Fernando Torres scored in the 33rd minute and the Spaniards never backed down against such a formidable opponent.

the two establish a formidable aerial scouting and combat team. Such ores are known as wind riders.

Moreover this system after improvement may also utilize in a more formidable library.

But the project is a formidable challenge to all of our expectations of what a monumental building should be.

With more than 300 million smokers nationwide and a deeply entrenched smoking culture, that seems a formidable challenge.

It is building Taobao, its consumer e-commerce site, into a similarly formidable force.

The old and formidable struggle, of which we have already witnessed so many phases, began once more.

Theory can only appear its formidable vitality when utilized to the practice.

Barack Obama may turn into a far more formidable foe than his predecessors.

The Clinton camp had suggested that a combined ticket would be formidable against the presumed Republican nominee, Senator John McCain.

Doing business in South Sudan is a formidable challenge at the best of times.

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

The provision of safe water and sanitation is a formidable challenge but remains the critical factor in reducing the impact of cholera.

What could the amphibious creature have been, who, by this terrible blow had destroyed the formidable dugong?

But at this stage, it still lacks the sophistication and expertise to be a formidable player.

Foremost among these items was the Mon Calamari's formidable fleet of exploration vessels.

Recent public-opinion polls show Ahn and Moon as the two most formidable challengers to Park among all major potential candidates.

I hope that the speed and positive-reinforcement aspects of the Koch method can cut down the code barrier to a much less formidable size.

He owed a good deal in the town, but his debts of honour were still more formidable.

Their strength plus their spirit makes them formidable. Intelligence plus wit makes for an interesting person.

Finally, we get to see a formidable opponent challenge Vin Diesel's Dominic Toretto in hand-to-hand combat.

This cycle of dependency ensures that the SOEs remain formidable competitors overseas, while penalising the domestic, non-state sector.

Despite its formidable nuclear arsenal, it is no longer a military superpower.

She trained to become a formidable fighter and joined the Guild of Blades, which organizes the business of Cadwallon's mercenaries.

He met with a woman with a formidable appearance.

Coupling strong state backing with better technology could provide international companies with formidable competition in future.

Mr. Bush told Mr. Gore he was a "formidable opponent and a good man" and sent along his best to the Vice President's family.

It was a formidable weapon. With Kad's strength, he could knock Obi-Wan out cold.

The combination of just these four application types alone would make a formidable thin client, all completely free.

One of the most formidable enemies hazarding human health is tumour, the incidence of which rises sharply year after year.

The head of the research section was a formidable old professor.

This tutelary theory is a pure mathematical fiction. From the start it has been founded on a formidable abstraction.

Other infectious diseases, malaria, pneumonia, because of poverty, because poor environment, the spread of a more formidable.

Two years ago, Microsoft signed an agreement to take over Yahoo'ssearch business to create a more formidable rival to Google.

Encased in mail and equipped with a two handed axe these early knights are formidable fighting machines.

We are confronted with several formidable tasks, right now the hardest one is to effect an all-round reform of the price and wage systems.

Preserving cash in such formidable times will present managers with an unprecedented test of their skills.

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.

Scientists have been working for decades to develop a vaccine against malaria, but the Plasmodium parasite is a formidable foe.

The best defensive spell available to a Sorceress is manifest in this formidable armor.

The process accommodates variable setting times and provides resulting concrete which exhibits formidable structural integrity.

No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition.

Pausch maintains his most formidable brick wall was a beautiful graduate student named Jai Glasgow.

"Reflection" will help you to tackle all things that seem formidable.

The cohesiveness of NATO is being put to a formidable test pending the looming American and British led war against Iraq.

The ECB is facing more formidable legal constraints than those who call for an intervention acknowledge.

But these small companies face formidable legal, financial, marketing and management obstacles, the Energy Department report said.

Certainly, my strength is tiny, but I believed the motherland the strength is formidable.

Meanwhile, the Lao People's Army continues to hunt down the remainder of the once formidable Hmong force.

It has seen its once formidable empire whittled away by court decisions, which now threaten its very existence.

They were exiles and sons of exiles, dispossessed and unforgiven . . . yet formidable fighters still.

Meanwhile, in New York a (still) formidable American hedge fund recently circulated private research that echoes the reasoning of Mr Smith.

At the same time, DPJ members privately admit that this is a formidable bunch for the party's bruising head, Ichiro Ozawa, to fight.

A formidable landscape, the Waziristan Hills are a hodgepodge of steep, rugged hills split by narrow passes and deep gorges.

That image, when compared to the actual bearer using facial recognition technology, will provide a formidable deterrent to passport fraud.

"Perot as kingmaker, " he says tactfully, "is a more formidable proposition than Perot as candidate. "

The rhino also has formidable power, but poor eyesight and a nervous disposition.

I will use the old way is fine impunity impunity, said the good formidable ah.

A society's stability and advancement must have one kind of formidable mainstream ideology to take its spiritual prop.

The political power of the boomers is formidable. But sooner or later, it cannot escape the maths.

Weaknesses remain and, apart from operational risk, the market faces formidable challenges in measuring and managing financial risks.

This condition allowed a neophyte senator from Illinois to seize his party's nomination from the jaws of the formidable Clinton machine.

Indeed, national institutes and industry have become a pervasive and formidable global power in medicine and research.

Father and son were given complimentary nicknames that acknowledged their formidable political connections in Beijing.

With such formidable physical abilities, it is fortunate for the galaxy at large that the Gen'Dai are, by nature, not an aggressive species.

But, it says wiping this deadly disease from the face of the earth poses a formidable challenge.

Thisone is more interesting and better fun, a formidable leader looking back on her early winning battles.

The history and romanticism of "formidable and difficult to reach" places drew Seaman to the poles as a photographic subject.

Running a formidable electoral machine, he provides finance and campaign management in return for the loyalty of members of parliament.

Federal efforts still face a formidable obstacle: the partisan slanging of the presidential election cycle.

They are formidable musicians, although critical opinion is still split as to the emotional depth of their playing.

Competition in the global clothing market will continue to be a formidable challenge in 2001.

The threats to privacy are formidable, and people are starting to realize how strongly they regard privacy as a basic right.

Even in their cages, tigers pose a formidable menace to anyone ignorant of, or careless about, their lethal temperaments and capabilities.

A friend of mine had been tyrannised by a formidable mother since the day she was born.

Political support for the euro remains formidable in Germany and France, but it needs to accommodate the new reality.

Jack: We have a formidable selection of other fine wines to offer to our customers. I can personally recommend some of my favorites to you.

The last dynamiter they sent to work with us, although a formidable technician, was very nervous.

He had built a formidable reputation as an infantry commander during the Sudan Campaign and the Second Boer War.

It is also a must-see for the scores of tourists who flock to it every year to marvel at its formidable elegance and massive spires.

On this substance, the formidable impetus is the satisfactory on physiological needs.

For the past several years America's most formidable adversary has not been al-Qaeda, North Korea or Iran.

Indeed, overcoming cultural differences can still be as formidable as scaling the Great Wall.

But Holbrooke will leave behind more than a formidable record as a prominent American diplomat.

It can be a formidable foe, and a difficult one for an enemy to attack.

Had Sen. Reid chosen to defend his word choice, he could have cited some formidable authorities.

Lightning stabs at the Rocky Mountain Front, a formidable wall marking the edge of the broad Montana prairie.

Cities, like forests, have their caverns in which all the most wicked and formidable creatures which they contain conceal themselves.

Although they are still formidable opponents, but they have no patience, no man metrics, not even clear long-term vision.

The final piece of the Clinton puzzle is her formidable campaign machine.

The treatment gap for mental, neurological and substance use disorders is formidable especially in poor resource countries.

BBN has developed the ARTS array vehicle concept specifically to address the formidable problems of low-frequency active sonar sources.

Ms Brooks herself has formidable connections, being friendly with the Murdoch family and David Cameron, prime minister.

The marriage of repulsorlift and heavy armor has resulted in formidable floating tanks known as AATs.

We astrologers would welcome them into our communities with open arms. But peer pressure amongst astronomers is a formidable force.

Early 1400's: Ming army is formidable, excellent training, most advanced gunpowder technology in the world, and a gigantic fleet.

In spite of his formidable appearance he had a certain charm of manner.

Undertake duty is in training future the formidable task of high quality technical talents.

Our hopes for an easy victory sank when our opponents took the field. They were much taller and huskier, and they looked formidable.

No arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is as formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.

This formidable force for change that we all have also depends on our ability to make decisions.

That gives the government less than two years to complete the trials. A formidable task.

At his side is Jonathan Powell, his formidable former chief of staff, now at TBA as a senior adviser.

Advocates also cite formidable cultural barriers that prevent women from testifying against their husbands.