Ticketmaster has managed so far to fend off potential upstart competitors, including ticketing platforms like Universe and Front Gate.
As Obama sought to reassure anxious Americans, US officials were still working to contain the fallout from the Ebola cases identified in the US so far, rushing to cut off potential routes of infection for those who may have come into contact with individuals who contracted Ebola.
Such applications may be far off, Dr. Omenetto said, but the potential is vast — a fact he realized when he was first asked to poke holes in silk.
There may be no such thing as bad publicity, at least not for N.I.M.H., which can offer what no one at the A.P.A, or anywhere else, for that matter, can: a potential, if far off, solution to psychiatry's increasingly public diagnostic woes — if only the profession can be convinced to abandon the D.S.M.
As for the more advanced weapons, the threat of which is already keeping U.S. Navy guided missile destroyers far off shore, they're simply potential help for old friends threatened by the greatest power in the world.
With a potential political solution far off, 2013 has been a year of heavy violence.
Asked whether he would run for president in 2008, Mr. Giuliani laughed heartily, but did not deny it other than to say: "Two thousand eight is too far off for anyone to be a potential candidate, and it interferes with President Bush's re-election efforts.
Brin has batted off potential suitors so far, but is willing to listen to any offer.
"The government's changes will help to empower adopters by increasing support and reducing the barriers that have been putting off potential parents for far too long".
So, for example, if you're pitching something technology-based (or perhaps coffee), I'm probably worth a shot (no pun intended) but go too far off the beaten track and my potential influence will soon drop off.
Iraq's potential for foreign investment is brighter but again too far off to warrant excitement about Nabucco.
