Sentence examples for certain potency from inspiring English sources

Nonetheless, a certain potency resides in their runic quality.

A Kabbalist also denies that there's a big hand in the sky, but has a very different interpretation of the text: now "hand" refers to certain of the attributes of God, certain potencies in the universe, and a certain network of symbols.

Offensiveness has a certain worrying potency.

And the story, while none too fresh — especially if you've already seen "We Own the Night" — has a certain rough potency.

Yet Republicans seem as certain of the potency of their position against raising any taxes now, especially given other poll findings that many voters have lost confidence in Mr. Obama's handling of the economy.

Most of the new compounds exhibited certain efficient inhibition potency for proliferation of a panel of five human cancer cells with IC50 values at the low micromolar level, and some of them possessed good broad-spectrum inhibition activities, compared to Gefitinib.

A drawback of this strategy could be that these compounds require viable mitochondria with a certain membrane potential for uptake, which could limit their accumulation and accordingly antioxidant potency, especially in dysfunctional ROS-producing mitochondria.

But at times his playing lacked a certain emotional depth and potency: hardly surprising, given his youth.

This kind of mechanism would assure consumers that the products bearing this stamp of approval had met certain standards of purity, potency and quality.

The three rings on her wedding finger — two diamond-encrusted wedding bands sandwiching an engagement ring bearing a diamond as big as a Chiclet — did speak, however, of a certain kind of spousal potency.

The results imply that the synergistic effects of amitraz are a promising approach in increasing the potency of certain insecticides in controlling the dengue vector Ae. aegypti mosquito.