Sentence examples for hardly potent from inspiring English sources

TCs were hardly potent enough stock (top speed was only 78 mph), but their tall tires and short wheelbase meant they'd turn in quickly and hold the road despite having semi-elliptical suspensions and wood frames.

Britain has also restructured but the pound is hardly too potent when it comes to the greenback.

And the V-6 in the Liberty is probably the coarsest engine in this group, and hardly very potent.

4 p.m. 1. BAROQUE AND BLUE-CHIP There's hardly a more potent introduction to Salzburg than the Baroque Mirabell Palace and Gardens, the setting for many of Mozart's early performances, several scenes from "The Sound of Music" and one of many Christmas markets.

There could hardly be a more potent metaphor for humanity's fall from grace than the unprecedented atrocities of the second world war; it suddenly becomes all too plausible that a society so recently gnarled by those horrors would resort to brutal violence to resolve its disputes.

You could hardly find a more potent representation of an indifferent society.

But although football, grievance and envy make a potent mixture, they hardly clinch the case for devolution, either to the North-East or to any other corner of England.It is, after all, still far from plain what the new regional governments should do.

Mr. Obama hardly created this moment, with its potent brew of Bush loathing and sweeping generational change.

There was an amplitude, a potent glow of sound, which records hardly capture, just as there was something in her own presence and her relationship with an audience which photographs capture not at all.

Iconoclastic young critics like Roberto Longhi poured scorn on the painting, and even Bernard Berenson - though hardly daring to question "a shaman so potent" as Pater - confessed to his covert dislike of this revered work: "she had simply become an incubus".

As we saw the circle of protections offered by the 14th Amendment enlarged in a beautiful and meaningful way through Obergefell, we also gained a series of potent reminders that laws are hardly the only thing that count.