7 sentences with 'formidable'
Example sentences and phrases with the word formidable and other words derived from it.
• « Four centuries later, the formidable collective addiction to tobacco, alcohol and a multitude of stimulants or sedatives that pose a high risk to human health and life is evident all over the world. »
• « Thanks to the formidable legacy of the mummies, we now know what kind of diseases afflicted the legendary people who lived on the banks of the Nile; we also know what their systems of cure were. »
• « This formidable Hellenic civilisation was also the birthplace of two of the greatest fathers of medicine: Hippocrates and Galen. »
• « On the basis of these rules, the experience of centuries and the formidable contributions of modern medicine, it is possible to establish some basic rules for our nutrition. »
• « Over the next few decades they gained a formidable reputation as ghazis, holy warriors, but they also set out to take over the lands of former Byzantine subjects without inflicting excessive destruction or cruelty (to Muslims, Christians and Jews alike). »
• « Today, Oliver North controls a formidable direct mail fundraising business for political campaigns, »
• « The human brain is the most formidable computing machine we know of, and no human creation is capable of matching its capacity. However, there are indications that its current configuration may become an obsolete technology at any moment, and that the future is preparing some kind of replacement. »