The city's proximity to the U.S. provided a formidable advantage that helped consolidate its position as a prime tourist destination.

Even in such a climate, Republicans retain some formidable institutional advantages to help them hold on, Mr. Cole and others say.

I guess it's too much to expect our legislators, with their formidable electoral advantages of incumbency, to ban their own mailing privileges.

Mr. Corzine still holds the kind of formidable advantages that might give any potential primary opponent second thoughts.

The Rangers built a three-goal lead last night in the first period, a formidable advantage not easily gained or lost against the meticulous Jets.

The former soldiers still had weapons and military equipment from World War I, which gave them a formidable advantage.

For all of that, the poll showed that the Republicans still have formidable advantages over the Democrats in the public's mind.

There is some basis for this, because we have a formidable advantage.

It must fight the competition of the giant malls built everywhere in Istanbul, but its beauty and fascination represent a formidable advantage for it.

As independence in 1960 approached, these decisions by the French gave southerners a formidable advantage in determining who would run the new country.