person to be reckoned with

As writer Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson put it in a 2018 Washington Post Magazine story about the designer: “McCardell’s creations contained an alchemy that so many of us still seek: the ability to command the narrative of our own bodies, and to be seen not as mere eye candy but as a person to be reckoned with.”

He loomed large and substantial in the forefront of her thoughts, a person to be reckoned with, no longer the vague figure which had hovered indistinctly amid the confusion of her mind.

After he had helped to keep the U. S. out of the League of Nations, world governments learned that the ursine Senator from Idaho was a potent person to be reckoned with in their dealings with the U. S., that, as Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, he had an authority comparable to that of the Secretary of State himself.

A 21-year-old girl named Valerie Lauder is a person to be reckoned with in Chicago journalism.

She rose to her feet and gave me a penetrating glance, a glance which revealed for the first time something of that commanding personality which had made this slight, exquisite creature for years one of the most able and successful of secret negotiators, and a person to be reckoned with by every foreign minister.