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"Boris cannot underestimate the intellectual challenge and the formidability of Nicola Sturgeon to argue the case of a proud nation that has shown a capacity to turn its back on the established UK parties in the past decade or so."

In the authors' earlier study with frontline combatants in Iraq, they found that both avowedly religious Islamic State fighters and avowedly secular PKK fighters (the only force that held fast against the Islamic State onslaught in summer 2014) did not see physical formidability as important.

The team, led by Dr Aaron Sell, from Griffith University in Queensland, wrote in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B: "The results show that most male bodily attractiveness stems from cues of formidability and physical strength, and that strength increases attractiveness in a linear fashion.

She has plunged ahead through changes in the entertainment industry and the rises and falls of more boldfaced names, quietly stealing scenes in American film classics like East of Eden, Five Easy Pieces and Fried Green Tomatoes and subtly dominating stage productions of "The Grapes of Wrath" and "The Trip to Bountiful." And she has continued hurtling forward even in the more veteran phase of her career, bringing, at 86, her brand of what might be described as genteel formidability to a dazzling number of parts.

The willingness of Salafi-jihadis to die for their cause--a willingness not always shared by other insurgents--adds to their formidability. (132) Salafi-jihadi groups run military training camps, improving basic soldier skills, and widen coordination on the battlefield.

Furthermore, this racial bias persisted even among a target sample from whom upper-body strength was controlled (suggesting that racial differences in formidability judgments are a product of bias rather than accuracy).

Despite acknowledging the newcomer's formidability, Cohen doesn't feel that the hotel market in general will suffer any grave consequences due to Airbnb's presence.

Nevertheless, military men, including Iranian ones, understand that armor, despite its high cost and formidability, are an 'expendable' resource.

In its superficial value, it is understandable that ruling political parties are clothed with a veneer of formidability. And the LP is exactly that.

The Czech critics too commended the consistency of the thematic work, orchestration, the formidability of the structure.

Wagner-Martin hints to the formidability and fate of the endeavor when she writes, "For all the professed interest today in women's lives ...

He said: "The ability to discern upper-body strength is principally because men are looking for cues of 'formidability' in other males.

(51) It is worth recalling that in the post-Enlightenment version of Job familiar to Pushkin, scholarly and artistic attention to the poem had drifted from the exemplary fortitude of the hero to the divine qualities conveyed in God's speech; emphasis was placed as much on the formidability or perceived limitations of the Creator as on the virtues of his creature (Pardes, "Job's Leviathan," 239).