Sentence examples for are only potentially from inspiring English sources

As their name says, these are only potentially exempt from IHT.

Anthony Burgess Clockwork Orangee (1962) and Wanting Seed (1962) portray ghastly futures that extrapolate, respectively, philosophies of crime control and population control out of present-day tendencies that are only potentially dangerous.

In DG I.10 he argues that the original ingredients are only potentially, and not actually, present in the resulting compounds of a mixing process.

If it were truly the case, he reasoned, that one needed to posit a distinct agent intellect because phantasms are only potentially intelligible, then, by the same token, one would have to posit an "agent sense", because sensibles "are only sensed in potency" (Quodl. I, q. 12, p. 164, 234).

To the obvious question of how something continuous could be composed of finitely many indivisibles and not be gappy, Chatton responds that continua are only potentially divisible into indivisibles, not actually so divisible, so there are no actually existing indivisibles in this sense.

Character, then, can be defined as "genius settled"—the promptings of conscience in themselves are only potentially moral, until we have integrated them into the fabric of our everyday existence and begun to hold ourselves responsible for living up to them (Journal, 3/2/42).

Mathematically speaking, his argument involves the sum of the infinite geometric progression no finite partial sum of which adds up to 2. As Aristotle would later say, this progression is only potentially infinite.

The past, like the future, is only potentially infinite.

Matter by itself is incomplete; it is only potentially this or that thing.

First, the provision of public goods per se, when it satisfies the Samuelson's rule, is only potentially Pareto-improving.

To begin with, it's plainly providing a useful service that's only potentially a danger to copyright.