person to be reckoned with
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A 21-year-old girl named Valerie Lauder is a person to be reckoned with in Chicago journalism.
From Time Magazine Archive
It seemed to her that he was at least a person to be reckoned with, either in friendship or enmity.
From The Pawns Count by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)
It is hard to invest Mother Beggarlegs with importance, but the date helps me—the date I mean, of this chapter about Elgin; she was a person to be reckoned with on the twenty-fourth of May.
From The Imperialist by Duncan, Sara Jeannette
It means that I am a person to be reckoned with.
From Victory An Island Tale by Conrad, Joseph
From all that is known of him during these years, it is clear that he made himself a person to be reckoned with by those at the centre of authority in the country.
From Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 3 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History by Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis)
