Four decades after war had left Japan in ruins, the country boasted the world's most formidable industrial machine.

"There was never a debate over whether this would be a formidable single-processor machine."

They are only vaguely aware of the formidable machine working below the slate floor of the monumental mess hall.

Introduced in 1976, the EMT 950 is a formidable machine indeed.

Opponents of the new plant say they face a formidable political machine: parish officials whose business interests stand to gain from new industry.

But both candidates are trying to make the most of the formidable political machines behind the parties with which they are, unofficially, affiliated.

Some moments after, eight strong men, with masked faces, appeared noiselessly, and drew us down into their formidable machine.

The larger clubs became cogs in the formidable political machine that ran city government from the mid-1800's onward.

"Seems to me the great flaw in your formidable, pyramidal military machine is that it depends too much on the trained monkey working the controls."

They are patriots, trying to help Palestinians defend themselves from the onslaught, this formidable military machine that has been unleashed.