The phrase "a serious potential for" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the likelihood or capacity for something significant to occur, often in a negative context.
Example: "There is a serious potential for economic downturn if the current policies are not revised."
Alternatives: "a significant risk of" or "a considerable chance for".
The majority's approach denigrates speedy trial policies and presents a serious potential for abuse.
Among the SOFC technologies, tubular SOFC stacks with internal reforming have emerged as one of the most mature technology, with a serious potential for a future commercialization.
"Many of the same types of gestures or comments that we are taught as young girls to view as romantic are, in fact, major warning signs of a serious potential for domestic violence," Ms. Goldfarb said.
Beneath this battle of signifiers there is a serious potential for fragmentation in Spain.
Neither the inadequate communication of risks nor the negative consequences of stimulating use of products with a serious potential for harm would be resolved.
Our analysis indicates, similarly, that regulators in Canada have failed to prevent advertising of products with a serious potential for harm.
"The Israeli government effectively took the position of renouncing the process of negotiations and renouncing any serious potential for peace in the Middle East," said Nasser al-Kidwa, the Palestinian observer at the United Nations.
While watching TV and playing video games can be fun, they don't usually offer any serious potential for self-improvement.
One of the main endeavors of the "Space Weather" program is the prediction of the appearance of very large fluxes of relativistic electrons with energies larger than 1 MeV, because they represent a serious potential hazard for satellite missions.
A diplomat who should know told me it was out of the question for the French president to let the International Monetary Fund come to Greece's aid, as it has for other European countries, because its chief, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, is a serious potential rival for the French presidency in 2012.
Taken together, these results suggest that crossing once the gates are fully closed is highly influenced by the train's visibility and is indeed a serious potential threat for crossing in front of a second train.
