Sentence examples for in the potency from inspiring English sources

Like Coward, Davies revels in the potency of cheap music.

Mr. Ingram, a Catholic, believes in the potency of prayer.

Flynn emphasises that a rise in the potency of genes isn't matched by a corresponding decline in the potency of environment: "The potency of one is added to the potency of the other".

One feels it was centred on his family life as much as in the potency that made him decide to be a sculptor, not an engineer.

Security services across the west were alarmed throughout 2014 by the growth in the potency of Isis, and its ability to attract western youngsters to its cause.

And in the potency department it is hard to beat a warrior's shield from Papua New Guinea emblazoned with an image of that comic-book avenger the Phantom.

She once said: "Noël Coward talked about the potency of 'cheap music.' Well, I'm a great believer in the potency of 'cheap literature'".

There's an odd comfort to this notion; it testifies to the enduring power of language, a faith in the potency of mere syllables to shock and outrage.

Red Net, a government-run Web portal in Hunan Province, called for a reduction in the potency of fireworks.

He argued that such an East-West stoppage would have ended the development of new arms and, more important, reduced confidence in the potency of the existing arsenal.

Hindery's bullishness about YES is derived from a supreme belief in the potency of the Yankee brand, and his comparison of YES to MSG, where, he said, production had grown "a little tired".