Sentence examples for a potent reason from inspiring English sources

That gave the opposition a potent reason to mobilise protesters.

Fogg thinks that these kinds of small intimacies will be a surprising potent reason for people to join the platform.

It is hard to think of a more potent reason to redouble our efforts than the thought of more than 1.5 million children every year who will not live to see their fifth birthday.

After the Soviet Union withdrew from Afghanistan in 1989, the onset of a guerrilla war in Kashmir gave the agency a politically more potent reason for being -- as the force to nurture a guerrilla conflict against India, through the proxy of militant Islamic groups.

Ayer sets up the gang as the essence of self-destroying evil nihilism as a working method and a game and the two cops as fallible but potent reason personified.

Ayer sets up the gang as the essence of self-destroying evil — nihilism as a working method and a game — and the two cops as fallible but potent reason personified.

Also, the chancellor has armed himself with a potent new reason to resist demands from spending departments: if he gives way, the Bank will raise interest rates whether he likes it or not.

Of course, this way of talking risks making a poet into a pedant — but the odd thing is that the pedantry, the insistence on singing good songs, is one simple but potent reason that Sinatra was such a good singer.

This highhanded action offers yet one more potent reason to oppose the further government regulation or nationalization of just about anyone.

The most potent reason was simple: seeing the faces of gay and lesbian couples lined up around the country, children in tow, to get their marriage license.

Another potent reason is likely to be the attitudes of both health care professionals (negative attitudes and unwillingness to request autopsies) and that of the general public towards autopsies (due to cultural and religious beliefs) (5).