There is, at the moment, no favorite in the running, no single, obvious inheritor to John Paul II's formidable legacy.

The issue driving Mr. Moynihan all his career has been welfare and the poor, and here he leaves a formidable legacy.

Mr. Gonzalez has established a formidable legacy.

Still, Mr. Shipley leaves a formidable legacy.

He leaves behind a formidable legacy.

It is a formidable legacy to overcome: deliberate starvation of the resources needed for a decent community life.

She faces a formidable recorded legacy here, yet she reveals neither obvious debts to other singers nor self-conscious attempts to sound original.

This was not, however, the latest crop of Ivy Leaguers preparing to defend the formidable squash legacies of Harvard and Yale.

Herizo Razafimahaleo leaves a formidable legacy behind him and is hailed as the father of political ethics in Madagascar.

Besides a formidable legacy, he left behind some schools, parishes and hospitals in crisis, and a ledger as red as a cardinal's biretta.