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

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  • Yet even if politicians were ready to commit ground troops, the obstacles would be formidable.

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  • But the problem of powering and cooling a chip bearing millions of lasers would be formidable.

    ECONOMIST: The transistor��s heir

  • Even cloven, Marathon would be formidable, as a top-ten U.S. explorer and producer, with 380, 000 barrels per day, and the fifth-largest refiner.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • But there is no reliable demographic data at this scale, says Peter Kellner of YouGov, a pollster, so the technical difficulties would be formidable.

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  • That understanding would be a formidable, if unforeseen, part of the legacy of the war on cancer and an essential part of its mission to save lives.

    ECONOMIST: Medicine: Shooting down cancer | The

  • The enforcement problems would also be formidable.

    ECONOMIST: Banning second-home ownership is easier said than done

  • Let's let any insurer opt out of state regulation in favor of a federal charter. (I'll bet Allstate, Progressive and Geico would go federal in a heartbeat.) Relieved of 50-state paper-pushing burdens and free to pick off the good risks with price cuts, the federally chartered companies would be a formidable competitive threat.

    FORBES: In Good Hands With All Those States?

  • While it would be a formidable task to check every study Wagenaar et al. subsumed in their meta-analysis, a quick check to find out whether they included a study with a known systematic bias reveals the study included Chesson et al., a study by the Centers for Disease Control which claimed that increased beer taxes could reduce the rate of gonorrhea.

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  • For one thing, pariah states will, I suspect, regard the deterioration of America's nuclear arsenal as an inducement to acquire nuclear capabilities that will, by definition be more formidable than would otherwise be the case.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

  • "AirAsia will initially start on a low-scale but once they scale up their operations, I would expect them to be a formidable competitor in India, " said Kapil Kaul, the South Asia chief executive at aviation consultancy CAPA-Centre for Aviation.

    WSJ: India Approves AirAsia's Airline Proposal

  • If cheapening a currency were the way to wealth, Argentina would be the world's most formidable economic power.

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  • Now, councils face an even more formidable obstacle: any increase above 3.5% would have to be subject to a local referendum.

    BBC: Council tax freeze splits Tories

  • If completed, a merger of Microsoft and Yahoo would be the world's largest of two computer technology companies and would create a formidable rival to Internet search and advertising leader Google Inc.

    NPR: Yahoo Rejects Microsoft Bid

  • Whatever happens on the Democratic side, the Republicans have a formidable candidate in Hart and a chance to pick up a seat that would be out of their reach if Klink were seeking re-election.

    CNN: By Stuart Rothenberg

  • Yet from a competitive perspective, the German firm would be an ideal owner for Sprint, because it has money to spend on developing it into a more formidable operator.

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  • Zynga announced that it would soon be launching its own platform, and while it faces an uphill battle, it could soon become a formidable enemy to Facebook if it starts to siphon off games traffic.

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