That blind loyalty is the most formidable barrier to change.
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He acknowledged that local tribes were AQAP's most formidable enemies.
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On paper at least, the most formidable challenger was Nyquist.
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Walmart is probably the most formidable adversary Amazon has ever faced.
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Republicans there viewed Biden as the most formidable challenger (The Hill).
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In fact, Orban is the most formidable politician in Europe today.
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And in 2020, that could make him the most formidable challenger.
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This modern democratic norm is the most formidable obstacle to this plan.
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Representative Marsha Blackburn, a conservative, could prove the most formidable candidate, though.
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In the Japanese, the Swiss have found arguably their most formidable clients.
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Even the world's most formidable team of superheroes has to face mean tweets.
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The appearance of the show's most formidable character in virtual form suggests not.
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Amazon is one of the largest and most formidable companies in the world.
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The most formidable challenge to Pinker's vision ultimately comes from the Enlightenment itself.
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Donald Trump is the most formidable exponent of this era without a name.
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China has emerged as the most formidable challenge that has ever faced NATO.
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It also owns the paper napkin's most formidable foe: the paper towel maker Brawny.
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It is the brainchild of Li Bin, one of China's most formidable serial entrepreneurs.
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Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, two of television's most formidable cuties, are not here.
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Still, Warren finished the year as one of the primary field's most formidable fundraisers.
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The villain in question would be the Cheetah, one of Wonder Woman's most formidable adversaries.
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Somehow, it will have to do against arguably the most formidable draw in the Copa.
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In fact, nuclear weapons are the most formidable military technology existing in the modern world.
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Today China may be the most formidable peer competitor the United States ever has faced.
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Despite the triple-digit temperatures, fatigue may be the most formidable part of running Badwater.
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The Kurds pose the most formidable barrier to Assad's reclaiming control of all of Syria.
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The smugglers advised they buy energy drinks and cookies for their most formidable obstacle: Bulgaria.
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Clearly Grodd hates America and loves wordplay, making him the Legends' most formidable villain to date.
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Trump moved decisively closer to the nomination on Tuesday after his most formidable rival, Texas Sen.
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Decades of US aid has helped Israel raise one of the world's most formidable military forces.
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Others make their way to a multi-year deal with the world's most formidable streaming service.
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"Climate change is one of the most formidable tests that humanity has ever faced," Obama stated.
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He destroyed a dreaded Panther tank, one of the most formidable weapons in the German arsenal.
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What AWS is up againstMicrosoft, at this time, appears to be Amazon&aposs most formidable challenger.
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Unions were arguably the family's most formidable political opponent in Michigan, one of labor's traditional strongholds.
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Washington also has long sought Ibrahim Hassan al-Asiri, considered the most formidable extremist bomb designer.
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And his primary competitors, believed to be Baylor and Duke, were returning their most formidable players.
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Many of the president's top allies think he would be Trump's most formidable general election opponent.
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Mr. Dauer impressed on her that he was one of the most formidable names in entertainment.
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Several Democrats, including Michael Bloomberg and Terry McAuliffe, are watching him as their most formidable potential competitor.
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McAdams' most formidable opponent ended his bid last quarter, sending House Republicans scrambling to find another contender.
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This biography explores the 16 century's most formidable women, from Anne Boleyn to Mary Queen of Scots.
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Ecuador's ruling will encourage campaigners to continue challenging even the most formidable obstacles to same-sex marriage.
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The JEDI deal could cement them even more as being ready for the most formidable computing workloads.
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A farm, dairy, and shop, Silvana Cugusi makes some of the most formidable pecorino in the valley.
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Qassim Suleimani, Iran's most formidable military and intelligence leader, displayed the fault lines in a fractious region.
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She's never shown interest before, but she would be probably the most formidable of all the possibilities.
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The Huawei Mate X emerged as the most formidable folding phone out of this year's Mobile World Congress.
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Now, the most formidable vessel owned by Mariupol's coastguard is an old fishing boat confiscated from Turkish poachers.
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At least Scandal's two most formidable, ferocious and fierce characters are reunited once more in a common cause.
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Yet one of the most formidable opponents they face is an unlikely wild card: the comedian Jimmy Kimmel.
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The armed forces' continued support for the dictator remains the opposition's most formidable obstacle for a regime change.
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Most formidable of all was Latonia Moore, whose bereft, God-fearing Serena spectacularly fused classical and popular styles.
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If Netflix can make up the difference next Sunday, one of television's most formidable streaks could be broken.
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Jet had ambitions of becoming Amazon's most formidable rival at a time when few credible challengers had emerged.
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Sen. Bernie Sanders hopes to set himself apart from his most formidable 2020 rival on a signature issue: trade.
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Ichthyosaurs, dolphin-shaped reptiles that lived alongside the dinosaurs, were among the most formidable marine predators in Earth's history.
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Early front-runners can easily come unstuck, but for now Harris is the most formidable candidate in the race.
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One of the most formidable critics of Silicon Valley is the European Union 's top antitrust regulator, Margrethe Vestager.
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The Times stands among the world's most formidable journalistic institutions, with a reach and power that exceeds its peers.
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Albert Wohlstetter, an analyst at the RAND Corporation, was one of the most formidable of the nuclear policy savants.
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Democrats are watching which race Mr. McDaniel chooses, hoping to put their most formidable candidate against the state senator.
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Qualcomm's trove of patents — among the most formidable in the world of wireless networking — remains a hugely valuable asset.
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Over that time, he has by some measures established himself as the most formidable Chinese leader since Mao Zedong.
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Ghost happens to be the most formidable, and the most powerful, and obviously has a personal connection to our heroes.
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Vanessa [Williams] plays the lead character, Maxine Robinson, who is the most formidable broadcast journalist in the history of television.
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Even though America's intelligence machine is the world's most formidable, it deals mostly in judgments and informed speculation, not certainties.
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Back at home, she also faces the most formidable challenge to her House seat since she was elected in 2012.
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Johanna Went was one of its most formidable figures, attracting renown with her cacophonous vocals, elaborate costumes, and grotesque spectacle.
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Rousey, a former SI Swimsuit model and UFC Women's Bantamweight Champion spent years as Planet Earth's most formidable MMA fighter.
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We know that the Saviors are our newest opponent for Rick, and that Negan is the most formidable opponent yet.
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During the Cold War, the United States built the most formidable technology-producing innovation system the world has ever seen.
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He led British and allied armies to repeated victories over King Louis XIV's France, the most formidable nation in Europe.
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With resounding victories in Florida, Illinois and Arizona, he has proven to be the most formidable candidate in the competition.
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There is no doubt that Mr. Sanders, 77, would be one of the most formidable contenders if he does run.
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Mr. Biden had been his most formidable opponent in Nevada, at least according to polls taken before Iowa and New Hampshire.
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The Kominsky Method is Netflix's second asset from Chuck Lorre, TV's most formidable network hero for viewers of a certain age.
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His business credentials have helped defuse opposition from the private sector, long among the most formidable critics of the leftist politician.
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Trump has also been polling these advisers on who they think will be the most formidable challenger to him in 2020.
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But can the Ducks, playing their most formidable opponent of the postseason, get past the Predators with the mostly invisible Perry?
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Since then, the company has turned into an unexpected success story by becoming Uber's most formidable challenger in Europe and Africa.
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Unlike her, he may retain enough of an appeal to blue-collar whites and remain the most formidable challenger to Trump.
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Of the three challengers, Mr. Sanford could prove the most formidable when it comes to hectoring Mr. Trump from the right.
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The President has just been impeached for withholding military aid until Ukraine announced an investigation into his most formidable political rival.
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Indeed, those closest to the perceived dangers of illegal immigration are providing perhaps the most formidable opposition to the president's plans.
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Mr. Assad has a strong imperative to clear insurgents from eastern Ghouta, the stronghold of the most formidable Damascus-based militia.
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The filing deadline will also offer a look at which candidates are the most formidable ahead of the Super Tuesday race.
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Hip-hop quickly rose to become one of the most formidable challengers of anti-blackness in America and on the global stage.
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Tapp's most formidable competitor is Vietnam-based MoMo, which recently landed a $28 million investment from Standard Chartered (SCB) and Goldman Sachs.
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The most formidable challenge the newcomers pose to the rich world's banking incumbents is not their lower costs or greater technological prowess.
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Back during the primary season, both Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio were two of the most formidable contenders for the party's nomination.
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Otherwise we will one day be confronted with the most formidable enemy that has ever existed in the history of the world.
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Even after three decades, it's one of the world's most formidable combat aircraft — it's capable of dropping both conventional and nuclear weapons.
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Dershowitz's career is a testament to the effects that celebrity, affluence, and fame can have on even the most formidable legal minds.
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My aspiration for all the students I teach who don't agree with me is for them to become my most formidable interlocutors.
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The daughter of immigrants from Jamaica and India, Ms. Harris is perhaps the most formidable black woman to ever seek the presidency.
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Reserves entrusted to the euro, the dollar's most formidable competitor, stand at 20 percent, and China's currency makes up only 2 percent.
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It's clear that the President is focused on Biden because the former veep represents the most formidable threat to Trump's re-election chances.
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Now, as the executive chef at Black Seed Bagels, this woman from the Midwest is one of the city's most formidable bagel bakers.
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An offense that was among the most formidable in baseball last season, even with a late-season slide, has sputtered from the start.
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As Washington's prized off-season acquisition, and its most formidable defensive player, Norman should get plenty of chances to match up against Beckham.
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While Old Trafford used to be considered the Premier League's most formidable fortress, it's lost much of its impregnable aura in recent years.
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Recently, Oceania's most formidable ratite—the cassowary—has been breaking and entering the houses of Queensland residents, requiring wildlife officials to relocate them.
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That survey was conducted before Biden's victory in South Carolina, and before the departure of Buttigieg, one of his most formidable moderate rivals.
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For a long time, the barrier was more of an afterthought, at its most formidable points just some barbed-wire strung between posts.
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"My life was infiltrated by Israeli spies and harassing lawyers, some of the most formidable on earth," she writes on the first page.
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So far Orsted's most formidable competition has come from people who left the company during its time of trouble earlier in this decade.
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The Justice Department has now brought charges against state actors from North Korea, China, Iran and Russia, the United States' most formidable cyberfoes.
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But the N.R.A. has also arguably gained its most formidable counterweight since its emergence as a modern political force in the late 1970s.
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Mr. Trump clearly pressured Mr. Zelensky to investigate Mr. Biden, the president's most formidable and likely political opponent, as well as his son.
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If you want to see real-life women of a certain age incarnated by the most formidable actresses, then Frears is your man.
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In those centuries, the enormous empires of the East — the Qing, the Ottomans and the Mughals — were the most formidable states on earth.
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Arya's first ever storyline was about being a good fighter, and her entire journey since was about becoming the most formidable, cunning, faceless warrior.
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During World War II, the world partnered with Joseph Stalin, who was arguably one of the most formidable — despicable figures of the 20th century.
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That's about to change as China's massive population of engineers help convert the world's largest Xerox machine into the world's most formidable innovation center.
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Helping new mothers stay in the game may, in turn, support those facing one of the most formidable challenges of motherhood: post-partum depression.
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To that end, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has spent at least $1 million opposing Harkey's most formidable Republican opponent, state Assemblyman Rocky Chávez.
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But the nonsigners are some of modern warfare's most formidable players, including China, Iran, Israel, North Korea, Russia, Saudi Arabia and the United States.
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Once Irving and Durant return, possibly by the beginning of next season, the Nets will have one of the N.B.A.'s most formidable lineups.
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Mr. Joyce's chances of regaining his seat were bolstered after the ruling when his most formidable rival, Tony Windsor, declined to enter the race.
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" He added: "Katie brought a new level of training to our team, and helped the distance group become the most formidable in the country.
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Biden is hardly the most formidable of front-runners, and if any piece of the current coalition breaks off, he'll be in deep trouble.
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Here, I visited one of the most formidable housing developments in Poland, and indeed the world: the gargantuan apartment blocks known as the Falowiecs.
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That provides fodder for Russian intelligence to gather detailed information on its most formidable critics and cast doubt on the truth of those accomplishments.
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But for the time being, Trump trade policies are handing precious market share, money and momentum to Brazil, the United States' most formidable agricultural competitor.
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But is it outside of the realm of possibility to the hottest trumpeter in jazz and the most formidable DJ in EDM to cross-paths?
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The Kardashians are no doubt the most formidable posse in America right now, but there's one group that's probably not too far behind: their exes.
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While Hulu has been scaling up its movie offerings in volume, Amazon has established itself as the most formidable moviemaker of the big three streamers.
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The most formidable companies have accreted tremendous resources and power and are responsible for making profound decisions that affect whole industries and billions of people.
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These hackers are often the most formidable, since they have the virtually unlimited legal and financial resources of a nation-state to back them up.
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In addition to those numbers, O'Rourke and Sanders are two of the most formidable fundraisers in the Democratic field, making them both top-tier candidates.
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Its boss Matthias Warnig, once an East German spy tasked with reporting on West German business, is seen as one of Berlin's most formidable lobbyists.
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I asked a dozen Trump supporters outside the arena who they think would be the most formidable opponent against the president in a general election.
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President Yoweri Museveni, a former guerrilla fighter who has led Uganda since 1986, is facing his most formidable contest in years ahead of the Feb.
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There's the writer Akbar Ganji, a Revolutionary Guardsman in the 1980s, who became a liberal agitator and one of the Islamic Republic's most formidable political prisoners.
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Apple is about to face its biggest challenge yet: Its most formidable Chinese rival, Huawei, just launched a high-end phone in the U.S. on Thursday.
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Click here to view original GIFThe death stalker scorpion features a fast and accurate strike, making it one of the most formidable scorpions in the world.
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Dean earlier this month threw his hat in the ring for the reprise of that role, and was expected to be among Ellison's most formidable challengers.
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Civil society anti-mafia groups have burgeoned since the murders in 1992 of the Sicilian Mafia's most formidable opponents, the magistrates Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino.
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There is also a strong team-building message, since the five robots are at their most formidable when they join together and form the titanic Voltron.
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Not only did the ultimate outsider win the election, but the second most formidable force throughout the contest was another consummate outside in Senator Bernie Sanders.
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And the Clintons, who are the most formidable fundraisers in recent Democratic Party history, have a 30-year head start on Trump in cultivating donor relationships.
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Unfortunately, aptitude for hobnobbing with finance executives at soirees in the Hamptons, Beverly Hills, and Martha's Vineyard proved not to be the most formidable electoral strategy.
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Mr. Wells said many black lawyers had wondered whether all but the most formidable minority candidates — so-called unicorns — could make partner at big law firms.
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Bolt, based in Estonia, has become its most formidable challenger in Europe and Africa since a 19-year-old college dropout founded it six years ago.
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But Mr. Biden, who is seen in the White House as Mr. Trump's most formidable potential 2020 challenger, earned a public rebuke from the vice president.
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Mr. Sanders said on Wednesday that he had spoken with Ms. Warren, who for months had been his most formidable rival from the Democrats' populist wing.
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Aging infrastructure and tight budgets have hobbled many of the United States' most formidable subway systems, including the "L" in Chicago and BART in San Francisco.
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But it is true, and that is one of the most formidable obstacles that has frustrated previous efforts at enacting broad changes to the tax code.
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Another weak showing, some Democrats warn, could accelerate a flight of wealthy backers to his two most formidable moderate rivals: Mr. Buttigieg and Michael R. Bloomberg.
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Hezbollah is widely recognized as the most formidable military force in Lebanon, which the United States has tried to balance with support for Lebanon's armed forces.
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But those who've led and studied movements describe them this way: They're the most formidable foes the NRA will face -- and it's because they're so young.
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Remarkably, modern insights about the most formidable challenge in theoretical physics—the push to develop a quantum theory of gravity—employ both the reductionist and emergent perspectives.
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That gave the Yankees what is possibly the most formidable bullpen in baseball with Chapman, Miller and Dellin Betances, the top three relievers in strikeouts last season.
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Uber, Lyft's largest and most formidable rival, has raised more than $10 billion to date, and is valued at $62.5 billion, about 14 times Lyft's new valuation.
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When he's not tearing up dance floors as one of the most formidable, charismatic and eclectic DJs, Chrissy produces his own tracks for a variety of projects.
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The most formidable opposition force, the Party of Hope, claims to be more concerned than the LDP about fiscal discipline, yet wants to postpone the tax rise.
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Now, nearly 17 later, the Taliban is the most formidable insurgency fighting the United States and the Afghan government — and they don't look like they're going away.
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Apple is the most formidable—its three-year-old music service is already on track to overtake Spotify in the US, according to the Wall Street Journal.
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Perhaps the most formidable challenge for asylum seekers is that the Second World War-era categories of protection aren't well suited to immigrants fleeing modern gang violence.
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The composer and multi-instrumentalist Tyshawn Sorey, a Newark native, who turns thirty-seven this month, is among the most formidable denizens of the in-between zone.
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In addition to the Houthis in Yemen, Iran has helped Hezbollah in Lebanon become what is perhaps the most formidable non-state military force in the region.
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The ultimate irony of Trump's preferences here is that they would likely work on behalf of ISIS, while at the same time strengthening America's most formidable enemies.
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On paper, the military force that Daenerys Targaryen assembled at the end of Game of Thrones' sixth season was far and away the most formidable in Westeros.
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But AT&T, in addition to its billions of dollars of capital, has another arsenal at its disposal: one of the most formidable lobbying operations in Washington.
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But two of his most formidable potential rivals for the Republican nomination have firmly said that they do not intend to run for the Ninth District seat.
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That makes it hard for lenders like Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank to make money, even though they are based in one of the world's most formidable economies.
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There's nothing progressive — or wise — about discarding Ms. Pelosi; it's downright ludicrous to sideline your most formidable and accomplished warrior, especially when the battle has just begun.
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After years of enmity, the two most formidable schemers on a series full of them (three, if you count Wendy) are united, and now anything seems possible.
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Whether the Bucks win 70 games — and whether they scare anybody — ample evidence points to their being the most formidable collection of basketball players on the planet.
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On a November call with Biden, some freshman members cited internal polling that showed the former vice president as the most formidable candidate in their swing-seats.
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Under Lagerfeld, Chanel became a pop culture fixture and one of the most formidable players in the luxury space, with annual sales of more than $11 billion.
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That makes it hard for commercial lenders like Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank to make money, even though they reside in one of the world's most formidable economies.
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The Carr Fire stood as the most formidable of 94 wildfires burning across 13 U.S. Western states, from Texas to Alaska, according to the National Interagency Fire Center.
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Looking ahead to the road to the end of the game, you mentioned Dave and Zeke already as two power players — do you think they're the most formidable?
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EVER since the fall of the Berlin Wall ended communist Europe's dominance of women's artistic gymnastics, the United States has been one of the sport's most formidable competitors.
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With the most formidable and technologically advanced military in the world, the U.S. gains essentially nothing from the addition of such a small force either peacetime or crisis.
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Perhaps most significantly, they would provide protections for the U.S. scientists who are discovering miracle biologic drugs that are curing some of the most formidable illnesses we face.
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Warren has recently emerged as one of Biden's most formidable rivals, with several recent nationwide polls showing the Massachusetts senator in second place to Biden, the front-runner.
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In a blistering phone call, Mr. Schumer told Mr. Brown he would hunt down the most formidable candidate possible to crush him, and take pleasure from his downfall.
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It is the actor's intense emotions, whether conveyed through a soft grin or doleful gaze, that grants a sense of vulnerability to even the most formidable female characters.
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With Brent Burns and Marc-Edouard Vlasic, Karlsson forms the most formidable blueline in the N.H.L. Six teams have new head coaches, including the Rangers and the Islanders.
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Mr. Diller was being protective of his protégé, and wanted to know how, exactly, he had secured one of the most formidable C.E.O. positions in all of tech.
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Long before Harold Bloom advanced his theory about the "anxiety of influence," Vasari recognized that the struggle for artistic excellence pits living artists against the most formidable precursors.
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Militia leaders from the city of Misurata — the most formidable power to rival General Hifter — said Thursday that they were mobilizing their forces to Tripoli to stop him.
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Most party leaders suggest Representative Martha McSally, a former Air Force pilot, would be their most formidable contender to take on Representative Kyrsten Sinema, the likely Democratic nominee.
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Thirty-six percent of respondents pointed to the vice president as the most formidable challenger to the president, while 13 percent chose Sanders and 8 percent picked Warren.
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Western diplomats say the kingdom has developed one of the most formidable counter-terrorism operations in the Middle East under Crown Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, the Interior Minister.
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The hour-long 2014 work "A mist is a collection of points," for piano, percussion, and sine tones (pure electronic tones), is one of Pisaro's most formidable achievements.
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The family's go-to stylist, Monica Rose, has extended this style domination to stars including Chrissy Teigen and Gigi Hadid, but perhaps her most formidable conquest has just occurred.
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HONG KONG — China's Internet companies, in recent years, have been the shining stars of growth, with Alibaba and Tencent rivaling in size some of their most formidable global competitors.
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The Dakar Rally started out as a grueling race from Paris across the Sahara to the Senegalese capital Dakar and remains one of the most formidable challenges in motorsport.
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Considered the most formidable time in a military career, basic training leaves those lasting impressions and sets the standard for your first real duty station and those to follow.
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With one of the most formidable defenses in the league, if Daniel can play league-average football or better, the Bears are still a threat to win the NFC.
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Democrats here and in Washington believe that their nominee, Doug Jones, is the most formidable candidate they have fielded for the Senate in this state in over two decades.
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His most formidable adversary that week was not Rocco Mediate, the runner-up who extended Woods to 19 extra holes (an 18-hole playoff and one in sudden death).
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And it also prevented the Yankees from facing, for now, one of the most formidable pitchers in baseball: right-hander Max Scherzer, who was scheduled to pitch Wednesday night.
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George Wallace's daughter made him cry Lewis had another warm embrace for the daughter of one of his most formidable foes, George Wallace, the former segregationist governor of Alabama.
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From Moscow's perspective, NATO has ignored its vociferous objections and expanded eastward in successive waves since the 1990s, bringing the world's most formidable military alliance up to Russia's borders.
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The White House's newly installed communications director likened the U.S. to some of the world's most formidable corporates Wednesday, saying it's a nation intent on treading its own path.
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After hanging with the Japanese for the first half of the game, Israel, an underdog throughout the tournament, could not overcome its most formidable opponent yet, falling, 8-3.
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The United States government is almost certainly the world's most formidable repository of hacking talent, but its most powerful cyberweapons are generally reserved for intelligence agencies and the military.
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"Pli Selon Pli" (1957-62), an orchestral cycle on texts of Mallarmé, was his most formidable creation: voice and instruments give flesh and blood to an allegedly inscrutable poet.
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BEIJING — Two weeks before talks between the United States and China broke down, Beijing quietly called one of its most formidable trade negotiators out of a pre-retirement posting.
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At the same time, Uber's industry-leading ride-hailing network is likely to make it one of the most formidable threats to Waymo ambitions in the self-driving car market.
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"The dollar will likely push higher going into year-end, offering gold its most formidable headwind and even countering the impact of weaker equities," INTL FCStone said in a note.
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Nearly a half-century later, Meyer has been the one glued to the television, watching Ledecky develop into the most formidable all-around freestyler of her, or possibly any, generation.
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The growing unrest, sparked by a controversial extradition bill, also represents one of the most formidable popular challenges to Chinese president Xi Jinping since he came to power in 26.
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The video introduced one of the most formidable trends in hip-hop fashion: "Hammer pants," billowy and often colorful trousers that droop in the waist and taper at the leg.
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Towards the end of his time there, they became one of the most formidable sides in the Second Division, and even managed to secure two seasons in the top tier.
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Nurmagomedov's mind may be wandering thanks to some questionable contract negotiations preceding this fight, but the Dagestani is one of the most formidable members of the talent-rich lightweight division.
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" And one of Ms. Norwood's most formidable opponents, Councilwoman Keisha Lance Bottoms, an African-American, has been running TV ads that declare Ms. Bottoms to be "The Democrat for Mayor.
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And former Vice President Joe Biden escalated criticism of his most formidable rival, Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, questioning her "credibility" on the costs of her far-reaching policy proposals.
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And it is this pile of ruins that Mr. Trump, sounding more like an ISIS thug than the leader of the world's most formidable military, threatened this weekend to increase.
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One of the party's most formidable fund-raisers, Mr. Priebus, who declined to be interviewed for this article, is accustomed to swallowing his pride to court richer, more powerful men.
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Though his political party is still India's most formidable, a few missteps in recent weeks, including a delayed response to two highly publicized rapes, have brought an avalanche of criticism.
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Of all the antagonists the theater has thrown at us over the centuries — the bloodthirsty royals, the cannibal barbers — death is the most formidable, if also the most dramatically inert.
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Both in tactics and rhetoric, there are growing signs he takes his rival very seriously — and that he increasingly views Sanders as his most formidable opponent in Iowa and beyond.
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Lou Duva, one of boxing's most formidable figures as a promoter, manager and trainer in a ring career spanning seven decades, died on Wednesday in Paterson, N.J. He was 21970.
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Sisi carried out that crackdown in part because he saw Hamas as an ally of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, the Islamist group that was once Egypt's most formidable opposition group.
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Winfrey could be the most formidable celebrity candidate, as she often devoted her talk show to serious issues and has owned a god-like devotion from millions of Americans for decades.
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Having sealed the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, Spain were now acknowledged as the most formidable national team on the planet, and indeed one of the best of all time.
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Though the artist used to be under Vybz Kartel's tutelage, Forever sees an artistically mature Popcaan continuing to form a legacy of his own as one of dancehall's most formidable forces.
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Bernie Sanders Sanders is already the most formidable grassroots fundraiser in American political history, and in February he kept the surge going, out-raising Clinton by $14 million over the month.
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The Copa América is an irregularly contested championship of South American teams, older than the World Cup and the European Championships, and features some of the world's most formidable national teams.
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And some of Vestas's most formidable rivals, such as the wind arms of General Electric and Germany's Siemens, are units of bigger and better-financed companies that can easily outspend Vestas.
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These finals have been cast as a legacy series, with the Warriors trying to clear the final and most formidable hurdle to punctuating — or authenticating — their record 215-victory regular season.
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Would it be Phil Mickelson, the once-snakebit lefty who is actually older than Woods but who got over the hump in 2004 to become his most formidable early-career challenger?
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All of this arises while Mr. Trump is facing, with no legal team to speak of, the all-consuming distraction of the most formidable criminal probe any president has ever faced.
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It's possible here that I was being suckered — being played by the game's most formidable player — but in that moment I knew how it felt to be let inside the Sandlerverse.
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Locking people up is one of the state's most formidable powers: It involves political and controversial trade-offs, it's expensive when done well, and it's even more expensive when done poorly.
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It lost up to 80% of its navy when Crimea was snatched in 2014, and the most formidable vessel of Mariupol's coast guard is an old fishing boat confiscated from Turkish poachers.
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The skies were kept friendly by the Boeing Company, while the sea pretzeled in and around the thriving port city, which played host to one of the nation's most formidable industrial waterfronts.
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The reanimated dead may be slow-moving and relatively easy to destroy by fire, but even the most formidable men in Westeros know that they're something to be very, very afraid of.
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And therefore he wants it to look like the most formidable disruptive bully on the playground—one that is so tough, so unpredictable, that you do not want to mess with him.
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Surrounded by some of the most formidable rappers in his class, he gave "Tacos Altos" its instantaneously memorable, sexually charged chorus, a useful skill for anyone vying for a Hot 100 placement.
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But after a drop-off in recent years in the political involvement of retired generals, they are back in the vanguard, posing the most formidable challenge in a decade to Mr. Netanyahu.
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In the process, Mr. Elias has earned a reputation as one of the most formidable election lawyers in the country, and arguably one of the most influential of unelected Democrats in Washington.
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Although other major studios — including WarnerMedia's HBO Max — are getting into the same game, Disney brings the most formidable arsenal of entertainment assets to its new venture, building toward its November launch.
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"Romney, who many believe would be the most formidable potential candidate who could still enter the race, got the ball rolling in French's direction, calling him "an honorable, intelligent and patriotic person.
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Not only can a woman get elected, a woman who will not be labeled a socialist, Amy Klobuchar, is the most formidable candidate in the field and will make an outstanding president.
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Now, after a 38-year career at Time Warner during which he shaped it into one of the most formidable media companies of its day, he is preparing for his final act.
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But with the Flyers, Simmonds has evolved into an asset in all situations, particularly the power play, where he has become one of the most formidable net-front presences in the league.
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Instead, the document provided Democrats with additional fuel for their impeachment inquiry as lawmakers seized on Trump pushing a foreign leader to look into one of his most formidable domestic political rivals.
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Played with daunting, dauntless precision by Saoirse Ronan (already, at 23, one of the most formidable actors in movies today), Lady Bird can give herself and everyone around her a hard time.
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Over the next 30 years, the extended Chao family would be an important source of political cash for Mr. McConnell, himself one of the most formidable Republican fund-raisers in American politics.
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The downside for YouTube is that it consequently faces competition from everyone that also promises democratized distribution and monetization through influence, with the most formidable challenges coming from Facebook, Twitter and Snapchat.
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Howard Dean, who ran the Democratic National Committee from 2005 to 2009, and announced last week he would again seek its top role, and is expected to be among Ellison's most formidable challengers.
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Over the weekend, people from all over the country began speculating that the home of the Bloomin' Onion had joined the world's most formidable organization after a strange pattern of restaurant placements emerged.
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However fantastical the threat of superintelligence may initially appear, a closer look reveals that it really does constitute perhaps the most formidable challenge that our species will ever encounter in its evolutionary lifetime.
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Why it matters: While the world has fixated on Amazon's moves into books, groceries and cloud computing, perhaps most formidable of all has been its swift break into a different business — package delivery.
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On the first album, I wanted to make sure people knew that motherfuckers from Atlanta could see eye-to-eye and bar-to-bar with the most formidable rappers from New York City.
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Moreover, Golden State's most formidable rival, the San Antonio Spurs, suffered an upset loss in the second round, ensuring that the Warriors would not have to face another juggernaut before reaching the finals.
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Airbus, the most formidable competitor to Boeing, overtakes Boeing as the biggest commercial aircraft manufacturer because of safety issues on 737MAX, any safety warning in this circumstance will make companies and markets worried.
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Legal experts, though, say one of the lawsuit's most formidable challenges will stem from the difficulties in claiming defamation against a public figure, as well as Section 85033 of the Communications Decency Act.
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The former president's return to public politicking comes at a momentous point in the 2018 election season, furnishing Democrats again with one of their most formidable and popular campaigners in the closing months.
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But last night showed that while Joe Biden, the former vice president, is still the one to beat, Elizabeth Warren remains the most interesting and potentially the most formidable Democrat in the race.
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Pelosi is also the most formidable Democratic fundraiser on Capitol Hill, hauling in almost $128 million for the party this election cycle (through September), including almost $106 million for the Democrats' campaign arm.
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Mr. Sanders quickly became one of the most formidable candidates: He raised more than $215 million from individual donors in just one day and retains a big fan base from his 21 run.
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Deal's challenge to get the MAX back into service globally while simultaneously handling new aircraft deliveries and boosting 212 production is seen as one of the most formidable logistical challenges in the industry's history.
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Deal's challenge to get the MAX back into service globally while simultaneously handling new aircraft deliveries and boosting 123 production is seen as one of the most formidable logistical challenges in the industry's history.
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With the road and rail investments we are making and propose to make now – the investment in broadband and 5G – our country will boast the most formidable transport and technological connectivity on the planet.
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Grass-roots activists at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) repeatedly invoked the former Democratic vice president when asked who would be the most formidable challenger to Trump ahead of his reelection campaign.
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That came days after George W. Bush delivered a speech that heavily criticized Trump in all but name, and as John McCain rehabilitated his maverick persona to become one of Trump's most formidable opponents.
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Interviews with more than a dozen White House and congressional aides, members of Congress and conservative activists offer a glimpse into his attempts at conducting the most formidable, high-stakes negotiation of his presidency.
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One of the most formidable modern punk bands returns with "Shape Shift With Me." It's the band's second album since its lead singer, Laura Jane Grace, came out as a transgender woman in 15.
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North America has the opportunity to be the most formidable manufacturing platform in the world, the strongest regional economic bloc in the world, and an effective counter to China's rising strategic and economic influence.
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And Representative Seth Moulton of Massachusetts, 39, who defeated a scandal-tainted incumbent in a 2014 primary election, has quickly emerged as perhaps the most formidable critic of Nancy Pelosi, the House minority leader.
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Now, 18 years later, the Taliban is the most formidable insurgency fighting the United States and the Afghan government — and it doesn't look like its more than 60,000 fighters are going anywhere anytime soon.
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But the issue animating much of the evening was the same question that has shaped the primary race for the past year: which of them would be the most formidable contender against Mr. Trump.
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Ending her address on a positive note, Lam said the city faced its "most formidable challenge" since 1997, but by restoring law and order, it would "emerge from the storm and embrace the rainbow".
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Facing one of the world's most formidable goalkeepers in the form of Manuel Neuer, Zaza decided to model his run up on a traditional Russian folk dance before blasting his effort well over the bar.
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Three years later—despite some defections from the gun-rights orthodoxy, like the evolution of Bob Dold, a Republican congressman from Illinois—the NRA is still one of the most formidable lobbying groups in Washington.
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She went to the Yule Ball with Hogwarts' most eligible bachelor and Triwizard champion (even Moaning Myrtle sees the appeal) and was living her best life, ready to become the school's most formidable power couple.
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Instead of being threatened by her teammates' growing accomplishments, Flanagan embraced them, and brought in more women, elevating them to her level until they become the most formidable group of distance athletes in the nation.
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One by one, all of Mr. de Blasio's most formidable would-be Democratic rivals — Mr. Jeffries, Scott M. Stringer, the city comptroller, and Ruben Diaz Jr., the Bronx borough president — would decide against challenging him.
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Mikie Sherrill, a lawyer and former helicopter pilot who has emerged as the most formidable of Mr. Frelinghuysen's potential Democratic opponents, quickly seized on the tax plan to brand the incumbent as out of touch.
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Mr. Ossoff did not win, but the money (more than $23 million) and interest (thousands of volunteers) he attracted helped build his reputation and mobilize an electoral organization that was among the state's most formidable.
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"The black church was the most formidable structure in the community," said Geoff Ward, associate professor of African and African-American Studies at Washington University in St. Louis who documents historical acts of racial violence.
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Mr. Ossoff did not win, but the money (more than $23 million) and interest (thousands of volunteers) he attracted helped build his reputation and mobilize an electoral organization that was among the state's most formidable.
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VICE News caught up with Jighere at a Nigerian national level tournament ahead of the world championships, to learn about the tactics that make Nigeria one of the most formidable forces in the Scrabble world.
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"The black church was the most formidable structure in the community," said Geoff Ward, associate professor of African and African-American Studies at Washington University in St. Louis who documents historical acts of racial violence.
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So long as it seems plausible that allies will hold together and treat an attack on one as an attack on them all, it remains the most formidable military alliance the world has ever known.
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At this stage, his most formidable rival appears to be Ted Cruz, the hard-right Texas senator who won last week's Iowa caucuses, and who is even less acceptable to traditional party leaders than Mr. Trump.
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It poses the most formidable challenge yet to Macron's presidency, with the escalating violence and depth of public anger against his economic reforms catching the 40-year-old leader off-guard and battling to regain control.
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Inside a 303,000 square foot room within Argonne National Laboratory one of the most formidable supercomputers in the world — Theta — is applying its incredible computing power to the largest batch of data ever recorded or analyzed.
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All of this will be happening while Oculus is preoccupied facing its most formidable external threat — Sony's console-powered PSVR, which will be dazzling holiday shoppers with its low price point and fleshed-out gaming ecosystem.
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Chapman combined with Zack Britton, Adam Ottavino, Tommy Kahnle and Chad Green to give the Yankees one of the most formidable bullpens in the majors, even with injuries limiting Dellin Betances to one game all season.
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Now, over 17 years later, the Taliban is the most formidable insurgency fighting the United States and the Afghan government — and it doesn't look like its more than 60,000 fighters are going anywhere any time soon.
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Disney hit this new milestone amid a record-breaking year that will also include the launch of Disney+ — a new streaming service that, at $6.99 a month, will likely be the most formidable competitor to Netflix.
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Suzanne Ciani, who has been making electronic music since the 1960s, received the festival's annual Moog Innovation Award, and reaffirmed her right to it with one of the festival's most formidable sets on her Buchla synthesizer.
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"Iris" is an excellent beneficiary of that logic: although the opera is a shade too weird to ever regain a place in the repertory, it overflows with inspiration and may stand as Mascagni's most formidable achievement.
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Mr. Navalny, one of the most formidable foes President Vladimir V. Putin has faced during 18 years in power, is prohibited from seeking political office because of a criminal conviction that is largely viewed as retribution.
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The context Mr. Skipper assumed control of the sports network when it was one of the most formidable media properties on the planet, able to command high carriage fees from pay-television providers given its popularity.
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After years of unofficial and official releases, bootlegs and specially remastered collectors' editions, ''Dopesmoker'' is now recognized as a masterpiece of the stoner-metal genre and one of the most formidable recordings of the past 20 years.
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"They've cited some of them in their complaint documents that show that Anthem was particularly concerned about Cigna as a rival, and saw it as its most formidable rival, and bid consistently against it, " said Professor Greaney.
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Should he emerge with the Democratic nomination, there is little question that Bloomberg — relatively unencumbered with Obama's baggage and credible in positioning himself as a results-oriented centrist — would be the Democrat's most formidable general election candidate.
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As one of the smartest and most formidable superheroes in the Marvel Universe, T'Challa has a solid fanbase, but he has never enjoyed the same name recognition as Marvel icons like Spider-Man or the X-Men.
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And while all of those powerful A-list women where dressed to the nines in gorgeous gowns, Kristen Stewart confessed on the red carpet that she really feels at her most formidable when wearing nothing at all.
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You had the Mavericks' young-star tandem of Luka Doncic and Kristaps Porzingis jousting with what is looking more and more like the most formidable duo in a league full of them: LeBron James and Anthony Davis.
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The Lakers' Anthony Davis and LeBron James certainly have a head start in the race to be crowned as the league's most formidable duo — as well as a stylistic advantage as a seemingly storybook inside-outside combo.
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Mr. Walden and Mr. Wilber are one of the most formidable constructing teams around, and their puzzles, while completely enjoyable in retrospect, require an extra level of dedication and, most likely, several additional years of graduate school.
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But with the revelation this week that a Model S driver in Florida was killed in May while operating his car in self-driving mode, Mr. Musk's determination to push limits has hit its most formidable roadblock.
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Rose was known as one of the East End's most formidable female fighters of the day, and claimed that she was the equal of any man (or two women) brave enough to face her in the ring.
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As for the political criticism, Biden can shrug off Trump's cheeky tweet that "African Americans will not be able to vote for you," since it only reminds voters that Trump sees him as his most formidable rival.
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Riveting from the start, this is a performance that overleaps with uncommon grace the play's most formidable obstacle — the dialect in which O'Neill wrote Brutus's lines, a principal reason that the play is often tagged as racist.
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On the final day of 2019, Iraqi protesters breached the most formidable U.S. embassy in the Middle East, and several days later the United States assassinated leading Iranian Quds force commander Qassem Suleimani in a drone strike.
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As the media consultant and pollster navigating the independent campaign for Pellegrino run by New York State United Teachers (NYSUT), one of the nation's most formidable labor organizations, we found many insiders skeptical an upset was possible.
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Now, even before some of them begin their campaigns, a handful of the most formidable would-be presidential candidates are signaling that they understand how pivotal this state and its African-American electorate will be in 2020.
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There's talk of David and Zeke, who were really pitted against each other in the last episode, but would you say Zeke is the most formidable opponent — or would he be a favorite of yours if that's different?
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He has 9703 points in 2970 career playoff games, and his line with center Steven Stamkos and J.T. Miller has been among the most formidable in the N.H.L. since Miller arrived from the Rangers at the trading deadline.
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Mr. Modi is up for re-election next year, and though his political party is still India's most formidable, missteps in recent weeks, including a delayed response to two highly publicized rapes, have brought an avalanche of criticism.
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Probably the most formidable thing about the tablet is its massive optional dock, aptly called the Gpad Pack Plus that's a stand with stereo speakers, a USB port, and a built-in 4,400mAh battery, according to Android Police.
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Just once in my life, I would like the chance to vote for a presidential candidate who ends his or her appeals with Thomas Paine's observation that "the most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is Reason."
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With Cruz having focused some of his energy on campaigning in Florida with the goal of knocking out Rubio, the most formidable "establishment" candidate in the bunch, Trump has a very good opportunity to take this delegate pool.
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - - San Francisco Giants Hall of Fame slugger Willie McCovey, one of the most formidable batters in Major League Baseball, died on Wednesday at age 21954, following a "battle with ongoing health issues," the team said.
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But the sides bridged the chasm, and Wilkerson will remain along with two other first-round draft picks, Sheldon Richardson and Leonard Williams, to form one of the league's most formidable defensive lines for this season and beyond.
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Though Democrats made strong gains in the 2018 midterms in Pennsylvania, it is very much up in the air whether they will carry the state next year, and who would be their most formidable opponent to the president.
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If Ms. Warren has become the leading liberal standard-bearer, Mr. Sanders has been a steady third in national polls and his fund-raising power is likely to keep him among the most formidable competitors in the race.
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By winning the race to acquire Fox, Disney could soon assume pole position in terms of having the most formidable content platform in all of Hollywood, adding to a lucrative stable that already includes Marvel, Pixar and LucasFilm.
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But under the surface, Nelson also signaled that he views Scott as the most formidable opponent he could draw in the 2018 race -- and that he is already preparing the lines he would use against the Florida governor.
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Nearly four years after Saudi Arabia plunged into Yemen's civil war, Saudi and Yemeni commanders say that hundreds of thousands of unmarked land mines planted by their opponents, the Houthis, have emerged as perhaps their most formidable defense.
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A 13-hour time difference and diary full of male bonding activities with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe did little to divert Trump's attention from the man he views as his most formidable potential opponent, Vice President Joe Biden.
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The man he views as his most formidable challenger, former Vice President Joe Biden, will square off Thursday evening in Miami as Trump is waking Friday morning in Osaka, leaving some of the President's aides wondering how he'll respond.
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Genena had been working to elect former military chief-of-staff Sami Anan, whose campaign had emerged as the most formidable challenge to Sisi before Anan was arrested last week and accused of running for office without military permission.
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In Washington, a hamburger restaurant challenges competitors to consume as many sandwiches as possible in 10 minutes, while in New York City, a seaside establishment stages a tournament that tests some of the world's most formidable consumers of frankfurters.
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NBC On the newest episode of Maya & Marty, the comedian delivers a tour de force performance as fashion's most formidable ruler, doling out one-liners that even Anna herself would be hard-pressed not to crack a smile over.
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Netanyahu's attempt to break precedent and bask in menorah-light was met with resistance by the organizers and scorn on the Israeli street, but Netanyahu called in reinforcements in the form of that most formidable of global powers, Honduras.
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As the first debates loom next month and candidates begin to test initial attacks on Mr. Biden, and one another, these miniature races will help clarify who might emerge as the most formidable alternative to the former vice president.
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Preparing for life after Bibi, meanwhile, younger Likud leaders are jostling for position, perhaps the most formidable among them Gideon Saar, a former Likud minister who took a timeout from politics in 2014 and announced his comeback last year.
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Those two phrases run against everything Ulivieri, 76, and his colleagues teach at Coverciano, everything they believe, everything that has made this place, for almost 60 years, the most fertile, most formidable proving ground for coaches in the world.
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Trump, perhaps pleased by the result and emboldened by the wan aftermath of the Mueller investigation, subsequently asked Ukraine to launch an investigation on his behalf, in an effort to undermine one of his most formidable domestic political rivals.
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"Since the founding of NRATV, some, including myself and other board members, have questioned the value of it," Marion Hammer, the group's most formidable lobbyist and a key adviser to its chief executive, Wayne LaPierre, said in a statement.
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Kandahar police chief General Abdul Raziq, one of the most formidable anti-Taliban commanders who himself narrowly escaped the attack, said that around 20 people had been detained for questioning, including construction workers and government employees including a cook and guards.
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Two years after winning the doubles tournament at Wimbledon in 2016, Serena and Venus Williams returned to the court together at the French Open — and showed, once again, why they're one of the most formidable forces in all the sport.
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His ouster as head of the National Guard essentially sidelines one of the most formidable rivals to the current crown prince, who has amassed enormous power in less than three years since his father, King Salman, ascended to the throne.
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This year should see many of them adding support for Google Assistant, which has quickly emerged as the biggest and most formidable competitor to Amazon's Alexa in the race to put a digital assistant on all home appliances and electronics.
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Besides UberEats and Postmates, DoorDash's most formidable competitor by market share is GrubHub, which had 43 percent share of monthly sales in January 2019, followed by DoorDash at 31 percent, and UberEats, which had 26 percent, according to Second Measure.
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It may seem strange, but it's true: The most powerful nation in the history of the world, with the most formidable military ever seen, refused to recognize the capital of its greatest ally because it was blackmailed with threats of violence.
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In the past year, the former law professor has cemented a reputation as one of the most formidable questioners in Congress, making heads of federal agencies and financial firms squirm in clips that rack up hundreds of thousands of views.
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MANILA (Reuters) - Filipino troops have killed about 40 Abu Sayyaf rebels in offensives on southern islands over the past week, the military said on Monday, as a new government intensifies operations to wipe out one of Asia's most formidable kidnap gangs.
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She is the party's most formidable fund-raiser, and her aides say she has sturdy support from a majority of House Democrats who credit her with ushering in the policies on health care and business regulation that Republicans have attacked.
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" On his and Mr. Robbins' departure from The Voice, an article in The New York Times, often the butt of the paper's barbs, inquired, "What becomes of New York's most formidable muckraking paper when two of its greatest muckrakers are gone?
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Claim to power: Former political operatives now helping Silicon Valley giants Uber and Airbnb bend government regulations to their will Two of Washington's most formidable Democratic strategists are now schooling two of Silicon Valley's hottest companies in the art of the spin.
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Because all of the most formidable opponents in their way (Arizona, Florida State, Villanova, Duke and Baylor) were toppled in upsets, Gonzaga enjoyed highly favourable matchups against overmatched Cinderella teams (Xavier and South Carolina) in both the Elite Eight and Final Four.
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Artist, writer (poetry, fiction, nonfiction, criticism), curator, linguist, translator, scholar, teacher, art editor of L Magazine and Brooklyn Magazine, blogger at After Vasari, and director of the apartment salon Centotto — D'Agostino is arguably Bushwick's most formidable hyphenate in a community brimming with them.
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Having scorched more than 121,000 acres (48,967 hectares), an area larger than New Orleans, the blaze was the biggest of 05803 major wildfires burning throughout California and the most formidable of more than 90 across 13 Western states from Texas to Alaska.
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The partnership, made between Samsung Electronics and Ant Financial, the Alibaba financial tech affiliate that owns Alipay, is important because Alipay is one of the most formidable rivals mobile payments like Samsung Pay and Apple Pay face as they tackle the Chinese market.
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In particular, Mr Judge, who stands six feet, seven inches (2.01 metres) tall, transformed into a credible rival to Mr Stanton as the most formidable slugger in baseball: he clubbed 2225 home runs, setting a record for players in their first season.
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Jan. 31-March 15 The Russian soprano Anna Netrebko has played in "Trovatores" across the world over the past several years, building her reputation as one of the most formidable interpreters of the role of Leonora, a noblewoman infatuated with a troubadour.
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The company's approach of taking and combining multiple images when you tap the shutter button, (which technically started back with Google Glass) has blossomed with the Pixel 2 in 2017, makes it the most formidable player in the mobile photography market right now.
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A year's worth of reporting on the White House has made clear that the most formidable task faced by Trump's lawyers isn't the FBI, the Justice Department, the special counsel's office, multiple congressional committees, or his previous sexual partners—it's the president himself.
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Ted Cruz With the possible exception of retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson — and it's a heavily qualified exception, because Carson's campaign recycled much of its fundraising back into GOP consultants' pockets — Cruz has built the most formidable fundraising operation in Republican politics this cycle.
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At the same time, if there is anyone who can figure out how to negotiate the different factions within their party it is Pelosi, who has repeatedly proven herself to be one of the most formidable legislative leaders in recent political history.
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While Mr. Trump was being formally nominated as the party's standard-bearer, his most formidable rival from the primary campaign, Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, mingled with donors and activists at a reception in a restaurant across the street from the convention arena.
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References to art history abound in his iconography, yet dwelling on his equestrian figures and perfectly spherical nimbuses risks eclipsing one of his most formidable accomplishments — the development of a truly unique, idiosyncratic vocabulary of symbols, many of which are not immediately readable.
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As defense secretary from 1977 to 1981, Mr. Brown presided over the most formidable power in history: legions of intercontinental ballistic missiles and fleets of world-ranging bombers and nuclear submarines, with enough warheads to wipe out Soviet society many times over.
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"I was just missing some balls, some easy balls, giving him a chance to come back," said Cilic, who was considered the most formidable challenger looming in the top half of the draw for top-seeded Roger Federer, an eight-time Wimbledon champion.
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The union wants to keep private health insurance as an option, and was therefore seen as being more likely to endorse Biden than to back Bernie Sanders, his most formidable rival in Nevada, who supports a "Medicare for all"-type health care system.
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And as Ms. Warren has emerged as Mr. Biden's most formidable competition, Mr. Sanders, her main challenger for progressive support, just had a heart attack, casting uncertainty over whether he could siphon votes from Ms. Warren, as the Biden camp had hoped.
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Some of Google's most formidable rivals – including Microsoft, IBM and Mozilla, which makes Firefox – filed amicus briefs on behalf of Google on Monday, arguing the high court could severely harm technological innovation if it sides with Oracle in the landmark copyright case.
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Some of Google's most formidable rivals – including Microsoft, IBM and Mozilla, which makes Firefox – filed amicus briefs on behalf of Google on Monday, arguing the high court could severely harm technological innovation if it sides with Oracle in the landmark copyright case.
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A desk-thumping variation of that defense is already being offered by Hanno Berger, once the most formidable tax auditor in Germany, who later switched sides and became a cum-ex mastermind as well as an ally of Mr. Shields and Mr. Mora.
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" Almost 20 years later, in 20053, when she performed her first Aida with Opera Pacific, Martin Bernheimer of The Los Angeles Times wrote, "Tall, lithe and eminently sympathetic, she must be one of the most attractive — and most formidable — Aidas in history.
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We have insisted that although we are the product of evolution just like any other animal, our evolutionary journey was special — that we inherited decently large brains from our ape ancestors and transformed them into the most formidable thinking machines on the planet.
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Munich has hosted one of the most formidable of these efforts: A trilogy of novels by Virginie Despentes that paints a riotous portrait of contemporary French life has been adapted into "The Life of Vernon Subutex" at the Kammerspiele, the city's most envelope-pushing theater.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - American snowboarding phenomenon Julia Marino is not worried that her team mates will be among her most formidable rivals when she battles for gold in Pyeongchang this month as she also knows they will provide her with the most enthusiastic support.
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"I was speaking to the man who had just run for the presidency and who had just won the presidency, and who might have done so with the aid of the government of Russia, our most formidable adversary on the world stage," McCabe said.
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Princess Azula, Ty Lee, and Mai are three of the most formidable villains from the Fire Nation, the "girl gang" that infiltrates and captures Ba Sing Se. "We thought that there weren't enough powerful awesome female characters in cartoons at that time," Ehasz told me.
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With just a few key images, she conveys how the most formidable empire on the planet could be so discomfited by an unpolished, seemingly ragtag army of Boers: "At most, British soldiers spent two months of the year actually training to fight," she writes.
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But despite Mr. Biden's success during the last two weeks of primaries, he will need to make gains with some key Sanders constituencies — not only younger liberals but also Latinos across several age brackets — to build the most formidable coalition possible in the fall.
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Sara Gideon, the speaker of the Maine House of Representatives, said on Monday that she would challenge Senator Susan Collins, making her the most formidable opponent yet for a United States Senate seat that Democrats have identified as a target in the 2020 election.
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Who he is: Mr. Skipper, who took over ESPN five years ago, assumed control of the sports network back when it was one of the most formidable media properties on the planet, able to command high carriage fees from pay-TV providers given its popularity.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads When the Broad Museum opened in downtown Los Angeles almost two years ago, its goal was to give public access to one of the most formidable collections of modern and contemporary art in Los Angeles, if not the country.
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News analysis: "Despite Mr. Biden's success during the last two weeks of primaries, he will need to make gains with some key Sanders constituencies — not only younger liberals but also Latinos across several age brackets — to build the most formidable coalition possible," our reporters write.
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It was the tale's latest shocking twist, but also a logical culmination for a season that saw the major female characters overcome all sorts of tribulations — as well as real-world complaints about the show's sexual violence — to emerge as the game's most formidable players.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who in her famous 2018 viral ad said her primary against one of the party's most formidable fundraisers was "about people versus money: we've got people, they've got money," put Bloomberg at the center of a recent fundraising appeal for Sanders.
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As a billionaire, Schultz doesn't understand why many Americans don't see him as the everyman or the prodigal son, who worked himself up from the housing projects in Brooklyn, New York, to found one of the nation's most formidable and recognizable companies, Starbucks Coffee.
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The most formidable documentary contender of them all, though, may be "Knock Down the House," a galvanizing study of four female candidates for Congress that had the good fortune to select as one of its protagonists Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the political star of the moment.
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Though the bout itself was underwhelming in comparison to its build-up, the reasoning behind the selection is that before the actual fight took place, Pacquiao was one of the most formidable forces in the welterweight division, and Mayweather bested that force with ease.
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Trump has singled out Biden as the most formidable threat to the blue-collar voters who propelled him to the White House in 2016 -- and polls (both public and internal) have shown Trump lagging behind the former vice president in states that were central to his victory.
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Masked, black-clad groups ran amok across central Paris on Saturday, torching cars and buildings, looting shops, smashing windows and fighting police in the worst unrest the capital has seen since 1968, posing the most formidable challenge Emmanuel Macron has faced in his 18-month-old presidency.
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THE EUROPEANSThree Lives and the Making of a Cosmopolitan CultureBy Orlando Figes Imagine a society where, within the space of a single generation, human innovation all but collapses the most formidable geographic distances, allowing individuals and information to travel the globe with unprecedented swiftness and ease.
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OAKLAND — Kamala Harris officially launched her presidential campaign Sunday in Oakland in front of a crowd of some 20,000 people — an exuberant display at a scale designed to cement the California senator's status as one of the most formidable Democrats to enter the presidential race so far.
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Tina Turner — 1985 All Turner needed was a spotlight for her powerhouse performance of "What's Love Got to Do With It." Pink — 2010 Look no further than Pink's aerial performance of "Glitter In The Air" to see why she has some of pop's most formidable staying power.
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Even if James reaches the Finals for the seventh straight season, he'll likely face his most formidable opponent in the Warriors—and that's saying something, given that he has played against two of the NBA's greatest champions, in the 2014 San Antonio Spurs and 2015 Golden State.
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While Credence and YMCA blared out from a nearby sound system, the guests diligently lined up in long lines, tasting glasses in hand, wristbands attached, indicating that they were among the lucky few who had secured access to one of the world's most formidable beer festivals.
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Biden's approach, meanwhile, reflects a belief that that his best path to the Democratic nomination is to prove that he is the most formidable contender to take on Trump, and that he is unafraid to engage the President head-on from the first moment of his campaign.
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But if Arizona's governor fills the seat by appointing Representative Martha McSally, an all but declared candidate, it could deprive Republicans of perhaps their most formidable candidate against Ms. Ward and further imperil their prospects for retaining the seat held by Mr. Flake, who is retiring.
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Jason Reynolds has proved it as well with his best-selling new Track series, a riveting look at the inner lives of members of a track team, some boys and some girls, who face their most formidable challenges during the hours when they are not competing.
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His campaign waded into the Republican primary, targeting the most formidable G.O.P. opponents one by one until the only one left standing was Sharron Angle: a Tea Party favorite who once crusaded against water fluoridation and claimed multiple American cities were under the rule of Shariah law.
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If you're a Republican, imagine how you would feel if a President Hillary Clinton withheld congressionally appropriated military aid to a country under assault by the Russians with the request that they formally announce an investigation into her most formidable Republican rival in advance of an election.
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The journalist Clive Thompson, in his 2013 book, "Smarter Than You Think: How Technology Is Changing Our Minds for the Better," suggests that for some tasks the most formidable tool is neither a human brain nor a computer but both working in tandem—a "centaur" strategy.
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And those five Democrats represent a distinctive top tier with the most formidable followings, each counting a base of at least 20203,000 online donors, according to a New York Times analysis of six years of federal election filings from ActBlue, the Democratic Party's dominant donation-processing platform.
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Hunter's two most formidable Democratic challengers -- former Navy SEAL Josh Butner and Ammar Campa-Najjar, who was a Department of Labor aide in the Obama administration -- believe Hunter's legal entanglements, the growth of the Latino population here and the influx of younger military families have changed the calculus.
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As Trump faces the most formidable, high-stakes negotiation of his presidency, the fierce battle in the U.S. Congress over his plan to replace Obamacare is a test of whether Republicans will trust him with their political futures at the risk of alienating deep-pocketed conservative advocacy groups.
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The "Worldwide Leader in Sports," as ESPN brands itself, laid off scores of journalists and on-air talent on Wednesday, showing that even the most formidable media kingdom was vulnerable to the transformation upending the sports broadcasting industry as more and more people turn away from cable television.
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He was helped both by Mr. Hollande's decision not to stand for a second term and by a corruption scandal that engulfed Mr. Macron's most formidable opponent, François Fillon, a former prime minister, whose hiring of his wife and children to work for him led to an embezzlement investigation.
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Many observers believe that a more mainstream Republican like Ms. Handel would be the most formidable runoff opponent to Mr. Ossoff, offering a safe harbor for Republicans who are put off by Mr. Trump's style or wary that his evolving policy positions will stray too far from Republican orthodoxy.
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Google is garnering support from some of its toughest critics amid an upcoming Supreme Court battle with Oracle, pitting some of the tech industry's most formidable heavyweights against the U.S. government in a fight with billions of dollars and the future of the software industry on the line.
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While it would be premature to write the A21.1's obituary, there is little doubt that the double-decker plane — once touted as the future of aviation — has been an enormous disappointment and a financial disaster for Airbus, the most formidable competitor to Boeing in the passenger airplane market.
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Though his motivations still feel somewhat nebulous — he seems to dance between vengeance, the power trip, and a genuine desire to protect his people — Negan's shifting attitudes toward violence and his pragmatic approach to problem-solving have turned him into the most formidable and relatable villain the show has ever had.
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Here we have a direct witness who is willing to testify and who states in the unpublished manuscript of his forthcoming book that the President told him directly that he wanted to continue withholding congressionally appropriated military aid to Ukraine until they announced an investigation into his most formidable political rival.
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Paris-based Huang Yongping, one of China's most formidable conceptual artists, put it quite bluntly when speaking about navigating different cultural realities throughout his career between China and France: "Leveraging the East in the West, and leveraging the West in the East"— seeing right through the robust consumerism of an often uncontested otherness.
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One of the most formidable weapons in Weinstein's arsenal — one he seems to have deliberately displayed to a woman he was allegedly already trying to prey upon — appears to be his ability to weaponize the gossip press, by ensuring the publication of stories that agree with his preferred way of seeing the world.
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Eventually, authorities told the people attempting to intercept Kessler that he had somehow been escorted out of the area unscathed and unnoticed, and the most formidable anti-racists on the scene moved on before 6 PM. Pointing out that things went better than they did last year in Charlottesville seems like a pretty low bar.
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Hong Kong (CNN)The date for their meeting is still not set, but when President Donald Trump finally meets North Korea's Kim Jong Un, the specter of China will also be in the room, a potent signal to the American President that the young reclusive leader has support for his cause from the region's most formidable presence.
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For a time, the Warriors were a kind of NBA unicorn—winning three NBA finals in five consecutive appearances, racking up a historic 73 regular-season wins in 2015–16 (the previous record, 72 wins, was held by the 1996 Michael Jordan–led Chicago Bulls), establishing one of the most formidable dynasties in the modern NBA.
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And the more closely that the House of Representatives' impeachment inquiry focuses on Trump's own corruption and abuses of presidential power – as seen in his July 85033 phone call with Ukraine's president – the more Trump will concentrate his ire against Joe Biden, whom he seems to see as his most formidable rival in the 2020 presidential election.
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John HickenlooperJohn HickenlooperThe 5 most vulnerable senators in 2020 Key moments in the 85003 Democratic presidential race so far Colorado governor pardons woman who sought sanctuary in churches to avoid deportation MORE's (D) entrance into the Senate race following his unsuccessful bid for the Democratic presidential nomination, Gardner got his most formidable potential general election challenger yet.
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It is, most likely, a combination of factors, not the least among them that Disney -- through a shrewd series of acquisitions -- has put together the most formidable stable of properties in the industry, including Marvel, Pixar and Lucasfilm, which will put a cherry on top of the year with "Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker" finishing the latest trilogy in December.
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In West Virginia, a half-dozen Republicans want to challenge Senator Joe Manchin III, but three have emerged as the most formidable in a drawn-out battle, state Attorney General Patrick Morrisey, Representative Evan Jenkins and the former mining executive Don Blankenship, who went to prison for the deadly Upper Big Branch coal mining disaster in 2010 but emerged unrepentant.
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The most formidable kinds of runaway leaders that tend most strongly toward natural monopoly – Facebook and Google are excellent examples – are those that benefit from network effects and learning effects working in tandem, as their mutual reinforcement means these companies run away from the pack much faster and are generally impossible to catch, provided they also benefit from perpetual learning curves.
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Perhaps the most formidable obstacle to Macro's success is a body of received wisdom about why the world on our screens looks so different from the real world it ostensibly mirrors — ideas about how films starring black actors don't do as well in crucial overseas markets, or that Hollywood has no bias against women, or that Asian men can't be leading men.
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Another complication raised by this scenario is Wall can't be traded until July 22th (the one-year anniversary of him signing the supermax extension), but if the timing of each transaction is CBA friendly, the Lakers should be able to roll out a LeBron, George, Wall, Brandon Ingram, Kyle Kuzma lineup that, by season's end, may be the NBA's most formidable five-man unit.
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Here's a quick look at his volume and accuracy from the mid-range since his first postseason with the Miami Heat: In other words, when you fuse his transformation into an angry rhinoceros on drives to the rim with 25-foot range and peerless court vision, this improved in-between game makes 33-year-old LeBron the most formidable and self-sufficient offensive weapon basketball has ever seen.
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However, we're reminded that the most formidable Tyrell of all — Margaery's grandmother, the Lady Olenna — departed the capital a few episodes back, and is now plotting with the Sand Snakes of Dorne and Varys out there to get revenge... The other high-profile victims of Cersei's wildfire bomb were, of course, Jonathan Pryce's High Sparrow and the rest of the Faith Militant, who have dominated the politics of King's Landing for the past two seasons.
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The Hill interviewed more than a half-dozen current or former advisers to Trump, and about half viewed Warren as the most formidable nominee in a head-to-head match-up against Trump, while the other half described former Vice President Joe BidenJoe BidenWhistleblower complaint declassified on eve of high-stakes testimony Ocasio-Cortez on impeachment: 'I think the ground has shifted' Democrats ask Pentagon to probe delayed Ukraine aid MORE as the tougher general election foe.
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Two years ago, when Joe Vogel agreed to write a new edition of his influential book about Michael Jackson — to be released this summer for the 10th anniversary of the singer's death — he thought it would be demanding but gratifying work, a fresh opportunity to train his arrow on the most formidable legacy in all of modern pop, to address new questions about the artist's collaboration with the producer Quincy Jones and to celebrate the enduring resonance of Jackson's abundant song catalog.
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Elizabeth WarrenElizabeth Ann WarrenTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Eight Democratic presidential hopefuls to appear in CNN climate town hall In shift, top CEOs say shareholder value not top goal MORE (D-Mass.) are presently the most formidable candidates in a field that is still waiting on big names such as former Vice President Joe BidenJoe BidenEight Democratic presidential hopefuls to appear in CNN climate town hall Hill Reporter Rafael Bernal: Biden tries to salvage Latino Support Biden, Buttigieg bypassing Democratic delegate meeting: report MORE and Sen.
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From the sleeve: To Horowitz, culture is how a company makes decisions, and he explains how to make your culture purposeful by examining four intriguing models of leadership and culture-building well outside the usual business case studies: Haiti's Toussaint Louverture, who was the leader of the only successful slave revolt in history; the Samurai, who ruled Japan for seven hundred years and shaped modern Japanese culture; Genghis Khan, who built the world's largest empire; and Shaka Senghor, an American ex-con who created the most formidable prison gang in the yard and ultimately transformed prison culture.
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Elizabeth WarrenElizabeth Ann Warren2020 Democrats push for gun control action at forum On The Money: Trump blames impeachment inquiry for stock market drop | Trump to hit EU with new tariffs after WTO ruling | Warren outlines tax on federal lobbying Hillicon Valley: Clapper praises whistleblower complaint | Senators urge social media giants to take action against 'deepfakes' | Tim Cook asks Supreme Court to protect DACA | Harris pushes Twitter to suspend Trump MORE (D-Mass.) as the most formidable Democratic challenger to the president in 2023, describing her as a "movement" candidate with the ability to appeal to voters on the left and in the center, The Hill's Jonathan Easley reports.
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