The phrase 'contain a potential' is not grammatically correct.
In order to use it, you would have to rephrase it to something like 'contain potential' or 'hold potential'. For example, "This project contains potential for success if managed properly."
These changeable characters contain a potential for emotional shifts beyond the page.
After watching three regional neighbours - Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone - battle an eight-monthepidemic, Nigerian officials are scrambling to contain a potential fourth frontline.
The plots of Shakespeare's last plays (Pericles, Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale, The Tempest) all contain a potential tragedy but one that is resolved by nontragic means.
Each plant produces an average of about 800 seeds, which means that a dense mass of the plants can contain a potential 30,000 seeds per square metre.
It was among the first stellar systems thought to contain a potential planet, although this has not been confirmed and is now considered unlikely.
He wouldn't be at the center of the Bush administration's struggle to contain a potential financial meltdown the likes of which the world hasn't seen since the Great Depression.
Every circle contained a potential target, along with a subset of Afghanistan proper, its wild dogs, hobbled goats, ruined castles, and winter stars.
A verbal sculpture, if you like, containing a potential energy which releases its kinetic force only at the moment of the reader's engagement".
But if the allied search comes up empty, that will suggest that the inspections were successful in containing a potential weapons threat.
"I like my own company – that's how most other people like it, too!" It is a characteristic Cockerill punchline: entertaining, opinionated and containing a potential grain of truth.
