The marriage-equality effort faces potent and determined resistance, and I'm reminded of this daily by my inbox.
The sport faced potent competition, not only from other professional sports (especially gridiron football) but even more from a massive conversion of Americans from public to private, at-home diversions.
Thus, Roy faces potent antagonists in the courts of law and public opinion; their calumnies throttle her freedom of speech and also destroy the relative freedom from worldly encumbrance and anxiety that allows a writer to stay in a room of her own and write.
The Rangers (13-13-0-0) will face the potent Colorado Avalanche on Sunday night at Madison Square Garden.
Along with Elizabeth Warren, de Blasio is the most visible face and potent voice of a new political spirit.
A lack of an outside pass rush will leave the Bengals vulnerable when they finally do face a potent offense.
Even so, traditional power brokers like Mr. Gilani — and, more broadly, the patronage system — face a potent challenge from the emerging third force in politics here: the former sports star Imran Khan, whose political pull seems only to have increased after he was hospitalized Tuesday because of a fall that left him with back fractures, deep cuts and widespread sympathy.
CHEYENNE, ATLANTA (Kelly Carr and Brian Grow) - The secretive business havens of Cyprus and the Cayman Islands face a potent rival: Cheyenne, Wyoming.
Moreover the religion has assumed a kind of reverence that despite the fact that majority of the population remains moderate, any religion inspired law does not face any potent opposition.
Their ability to retrieve conceptual information is related to the executive demands of tasks (Jefferies and Lambon Ralph 2006; Noonan et al. 2009; Corbett et al. 2009b)—for example, they have difficulty selecting appropriate concepts in the face of potent distractors.
Whereas before Wenger was reliant on his forwards outfiring their opposition — a strategy that was made to look distinctly one-dimensional when facing more potent strike forces — his recently fortified back line allows him to devise a more tactically astute approach.
