The story of Demeter and Persephone is quite moving in its depiction of the potent grip of grief and the mortal yearnings that can be the undoing of gods.
But six months later, events across the continent have served as a potent reminder that Europe's grip on its history is far from assured.
The latest monthly snapshot of the jobs market reinforced how the economy remains gripped by a potent combination of troubles — plunging housing prices, tight credit and shrinking paychecks — with all three in a downward spiral.
Her latest novel, The Falls, a gripping family saga, is a potent allegory of our times.
The postponement or cancellation of the president's address is also a potent symbol of the partisanship that has gripped Washington.
30 min: Mutu takes a grip of the game and fires a potent shot just a foot wide of the top-left hand corner.
To get a grip on reality, neuroscientist Xia Zhang of the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada, and colleagues added a potent synthetic cannabinoid called HU210 to petri dishes containing neuronal stem cells.
A potent, reproachful absence.
Surprise is a potent force.
