Sentence examples for mere potential from inspiring English sources

Oxlade-Chamberlain is 24 now and at that age no footballer should want to be talked about for mere potential.

Much as they bring pedigree in place of mere potential, it feels rather like a grudging handshake between two institutions who have each known better days.

To start down the list of reasons: Neither opposing candidates nor the press can unleash all-out hostile-investigative scrutiny on a mere "potential" candidate.

In fact, the dangers that are now facing Europe as a result of socialising debts are far greater than those posed by a mere potential financial crisis.

The mere potential for this kind of conversion, she added, will generally make the apartment worth more money than a straight one-bedroom that cannot be converted.

That Lenkiewicz has made it so far just four years after being mere potential - in 2004 she won the Critic's Circle award for most promising playwright - is no case of thespian positive discrimination.

Even mere uncertainty about potential changes can wreak havoc once consumers hear of shortcomings in the new services.

The current study evaluated the feasibility of engineering transgenic Arabidopsis plants to express bacterial broad-spectrum mercury transporter, MerE and its potential use in the phytoremediation of methylmercury pollution.

And the rest of us can get so worked up over the mere hint of potential change or bad news that it's all we can do to show up for work and surf the Internet all day.

This finding might indicate the mere pro-inflammatory potential of NGF as opposed to factors released by fibroblasts, which are predominantly involved in structural damage.

But as suggested in Section 1, language and cooperation on a human scale are so far from primate norms that the mere presence of potential preadaptations could not alone have precipitated them.