Microsoft is expected to be a formidable competitor in the media and commerce business.

Most experts believe the telephone companies can be formidable competitors to the cable industry.

The deal will also make it an even more formidable competitor to foreign military contractors, particularly the big European companies.

Zagat.com is its most formidable competitor on the information side.

At 34, he is now the old man of the team but still a formidable competitor.

Most foreign telephone companies are government owned and subsidized, making them formidable competitors, he said.

With the growth of television news in the 1960s, newspapers confronted their first formidable competitor.

Their chances are good with the French, the most formidable competitors.

"It is also clear that they are a formidable competitor for researchers on the market."

"This clearly does make them a more flexible and formidable competitor on the hardware side."