The phrase "abiding potential" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a lasting or enduring capacity for growth or development in a particular context.
Example: "The project has an abiding potential to transform the community for generations to come."
Alternatives: "lasting potential" or "enduring potential".
Kaplan, we learned, was born in Sheepshead Bay, and he confessed to being a gambling addict from the age of thirteen, although he persisted in showing law-abiding potential for a while longer, attending Brooklyn Tech, and then joining the Navy, where he studied Russian radio codes in Japan.
After explaining that law-abiding potential citizens were being excluded from Texas while disreputable squatters continued to stream illegally in, the delegates asked for the repeal of the prohibition on immigration from the United States.
There is the looming prospect that the company will go public, along with the abiding concern about potential government regulation or litigation stemming from privacy issues.
In both states the politicians and police forces are reluctant to enforce their gun bans and gun-registration schemes that are now making tens of thousands otherwise law-abiding residents into potential criminals.
Furthermore, history teaches that the accumulation of personal information about law-abiding citizens carries tremendous potential for abuse – including harassment of minorities, political enemies, and social activists.
In a way, the sudden flowering of free (or free-ish) speech can be seen as a partial vindication of the Bush-Clinton-Bush policy of "engagement" with China — a policy that can be described, quite simply, as an abiding faith in the civilizing potential of private enterprise.
But critics of the legislation say the current definitions are so sweeping that it risks stifling mainstream artistic expression as well as turning thousands of law abiding comic book fans into potential sex offenders.
"He had an abiding faith in Long Island and its potential," said Peter Klein, his son.
It shifts the story from the NSA's domestic spying program and its potential effects on law-abiding citizens to Edward Snowden himself.
"Making potential criminals of law-abiding Californians who have done nothing wrong and have committed no act against the health, welfare, or safety of their fellow citizens is the insane idea of the Humane Society of the United States.
Ayotte justified her vote by parroting the NRA, saying the measure would 'place unnecessary burdens on law-abiding gun owners and allow for potential overreach by the federal government into private gun sales.'".
