Sentence examples for military potency from inspiring English sources

Gilligan was the journalist who accused Alastair Campbell of "sexing-up" his dossier about Iraq's military potency, so as to provide a better excuse for going in there and taking out Saddam Hussein.

After all, if the solution is -- rhetoric aside -- assumed to be largely military, why dilute the potency of the solution?

After this historic election, the former military general will know the potency of the call for change could come back to bite him.

Amplified sound is already known among military men as a weapon of untried potency.

But ʿAbd Allāh had greatly overestimated the support his forces would receive from the Egyptian peasantry and underestimated the potency of the Anglo-Egyptian military forces, and in 1889 his troops suffered a crushing defeat in Egypt.

Yet just as it underestimated Russia's military resolve in Ukraine, Europe risks underplaying the potency of the disinformation threat.

It's reasonable to assume that they chose cities and buildings that they believed had great symbolic and actual potency: the respective headquarters of the military and financial institutions whose decisions have tremendous impact throughout the globe.

The formulation of the query had a subtle but unmistakable potency because senior officers are sworn to render their best military advice to the president — and to offer unvarnished assessments to those exercising Congressional oversight.

Barack Obama on Sunday sought to shore up the potency of American deterrence in the Middle East, warning Iran that he was still prepared to take military action against the Iranian nuclear programme, which the president described as "much closer to our core interests" than Syria's chemical weapons.

Making even incremental reductions to military benefits is typically a doomed political venture, given the public's broad support for helping troops, the political potency of veterans groups and the fact that significant savings take years to appear.

For all the potency of these films, there's a quiet acknowledgment of the futility of art in the face of military might and other forces beyond filmmakers' control.