Adjective : a formidable opponent. ,a formidable problem. ,formidable opposition to the proposal.    From Dictionary.com. 

In a context like modern Iraq or the ancient Near East, where disputes are often settled without recourse to police or law, "formidability" is a social asset.    From Wordnik.com.  [Valerie Tarico: God's Emotions: Does God Get Angry?] Reference

The three monsters of increasingly greater formidability -- Seven-Heads.    From Wordnik.com.  [Filipino Popular Tales] Reference

As much as he despised them, Karim had no illusions about their formidability.    From Wordnik.com.  [Extreme Measures] Reference

Hillary hasn't shown any formidability since before the Obama hugfest in Unity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Report: Warner To Deliver "Bipartisan" Message At Dem Convention?] Reference

Hovan turned to him, at last understanding some part of a Ranger's formidability.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fearful Symmetry A Terran Empire novel] Reference

Though her patriotic velour jog suit was quirky, her formidability was undeniable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fatal Circle] Reference

KING: And speaking of that, did Ronald Reagan's formidability on the world stage surprise you?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 10, 2004] Reference

Obama's stasis and Hillary's formidability was part of the focus of discussion on last Saturday's McLaughlin Group.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama: Imus Should Get The Ax] Reference

Protagonist one of them, anywayPhreedom Messenger has a lot in common with Zed, at least in terms of speed and formidability.    From Wordnik.com.  [My 31 day challenge: can you help?] Reference

It increases formidability and, consequently, when I get angry, you pay more attention to my desires and less attention to your own.    From Wordnik.com.  [Valerie Tarico: God's Emotions: Does God Get Angry?] Reference

One often-heard argument is that the U.S. was more concerned about demonstrating its nuclear formidability than forcing Japan to surrender.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wherefore Nagasaki?] Reference

Fashion notes aside, all this analogizing is based on shaky history: its fans impute to the British Empire a formidability it never possessed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Magic and Mayhem] Reference

Some people might have considered it a miracle, but it was not; it was merely an early indication of Ivy's own formidability, which was allied to that of her grandfather Bink.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dragon on a Pedestal]

Their formidability lies not just in the fact that they have tons of money to buy political favor but that they constitute the very life blood of the growth based economy; they literally and figuratively fuel the engine of growth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Keith Harrington: Death by Growth: What the Climate-Bill Autopsies Missed] Reference

Donald Barthelme was born in 1931, the namesake and eldest son of Donald Barthelme Senior, a Houston architect of distinction and renown and of formidability to his children, all of whom were gifted and successful and desired to please him.    From Wordnik.com.  [How He Wrote His Songs] Reference

Yet, if the applause at the party during the debate was any indication, some of Garcia's supporters do still err on the side of McCain, which might have caused some small discomfort among the Democrats in the room, but surely is an indication of Garcia's cross-aisle formidability.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Hood: In Florida, A Congressional Candidate's Debate Watching Party Breaks Both Blue And Red] Reference

Ignatieff certainly does appear to mark a 180 in liberal formidability.    From Wordnik.com.  [CTV News RSS Feed] Reference

I want to hug him but his enormousness and formidability keeps me at a distance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adrants] Reference

But if they run, they will face an opponent whose formidability may belie her poll numbers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Buffalo News: Home] Reference

The performances of Chinese athletes during the Games confirmed the country's formidability.    From Wordnik.com.  [Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China] Reference

It also does not have intellectual formidability and spiritual admissibility under whatsoever definitions.    From Wordnik.com.  [American Chronicle] Reference

At the same time, the way he used his clout, seniority and formidability unwittingly made the case for certain reforms.    From Wordnik.com.  [post-gazette.com - News] Reference

Immediate preoccupations have interposed delays; but I suspect I may also have shied away from the formidability of the task.    From Wordnik.com.  [Israelated - English Israel blogs] Reference

As someone trained to eventually replace Batman in case of his death, this new Azrael brings an instant formidability to the table.    From Wordnik.com.  [IGN Comics] Reference

India's batting also loses some of its formidability because of the absence of left-handed duo of Yuvraj Singh and Gautam Gambhir, the first is nursing an injury in his left wrist and the second a groin.    From Wordnik.com.  [ Analysis] Reference

A Mackintosh has been taken, who reduces their formidability, by being sent to raise two clans, and with orders, if they would not rise, at least to give out they had risen, for that three clans would leave the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1] Reference

A Mackintosh has been taken, who reduces their formidability, by being sent to raise two clans, and with orders, if they would not rise, at least to give out they had risen, for that three clans would leave the Pretender, unless joined by those two.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters of Horace Walpole 01]

Imagine, if you can, a bald-faced hornet of your earthly experience grown to the size of a prize Hereford bull, and you will have some faint conception of the ferocious appearance and awesome formidability of the winged monster that bore down upon me.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Warlord of Mars] Reference

As this cocksure sense of the AR-15’s formidability was being assembled, the most successful demonstration of all was held.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gun] Reference

A Houston architect of distinction and renown and of formidability to his children, all of whom were gifted and successful and desired to please him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Powell's Books: Overview] Reference

"From time to time I have been in similar positions, and therefore I know that it requires guts to stand up despite the formidability of one's opponents.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Still out of sight, De’Unnero studied the group carefully as they neared, trying to gain a measure of this band’s formidability by the way they rode and the way they walked.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ascendance]

But formidability.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions] Reference

"This creature is formidability.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Blue Adept]