Yet for all that, the task of moving a bank's headquarters would be formidable.
Yet even if politicians were ready to commit ground troops, the obstacles would be formidable.
But the problem of powering and cooling a chip bearing millions of lasers would be formidable.
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.
But there is no reliable demographic data at this scale, says Peter Kellner of YouGov, a pollster, so the technical difficulties would be formidable.
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.
The enforcement problems would also be formidable.
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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.
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.
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.
"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.
If cheapening a currency were the way to wealth, Argentina would be the world's most formidable economic power.
Now, councils face an even more formidable obstacle: any increase above 3.5% would have to be subject to a local referendum.
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.
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.
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.
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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