What a talent scout looks for

Usage examples of potential.

The means of destruction accumulated on a scale that well-nigh kept pace with the increase in the potential wealth of mankind.

These groups point at the increasing number of Vulcans affiliated with Starfleetand at the fact that they are sometimes required by their oaths to handle weapons or perhaps to act violently in the line of dutyand they claim that this is the beginning of the corruption of the species and a potential return to the old warlike ways that almost doomed the planet.

The ventilation system had been shut down within an hour of the incident to avoid potential spread of anthrax, and the staff was told to expect the offices to be warmer than usual.

The Senate and House leadership met early Wednesday morning and received reports that environmental cultures from several locations had tested positive for anthrax, suggesting an even higher potential for contamination than previously thought.

However, we had not updated our understanding of anthrax or other potential biological agents in years, primarily because of a lack of data.

However, those potential side effects are greatly outweighed by the serious risk anthrax poses.

This, naturally, is only a private case of the archival potential of the Net.

Boy ascribed a low coefficient of irritant potential to Miss Stern, regarding her as a typical young American intellectual woman seeking a cause to justify her existence, until marriage, career, or artsy hobbies defused her.

Brian for treatment just the day before and that he assessed his suicide potential at that time and it was negligible.

My task is to gather knowledge of the world that surrounds the Associative, of good places to mine the minerals and the metals necessary to our health, and to keep watch out for and provide warning of potential dangers.

One of those weapons, which had a wide application potential, was the laser - light amplification through stimulated energy radiation - the device the army found in the Roswell spacecraft and would later develop as a weapon in cooperation with Hughes Aircraft.

Atlantic since they correctly saw that it was in the sugar islands of the Caribbean and the potential markets of the Anglophone colonies that the greatest fortunes were being made.

But the first two appointees, Henry Kissinger and former Democratic senator George Mitchell, resigned within days, citing potential conflicts of interest.

By astute and systematic observation, supplemented by occasional bribery, the team would compile a financial and operating study, probing weaknesses and estimating potential, untapped strengths.

She branched off at once, away from the Basset Hill museum and its potential director.