These multiple roles have been criticized by investor advocates and board members as posing a potential conflict of interest.
Throughout the country, wooden steeples are decaying and leaning, posing a potential safety threat and straining the finances of sometimes tiny congregations.
Maxygen is developing improved versions of proteins that are already being sold as drugs by other companies, posing a potential threat to other biotechnology companies.
The local police, who routinely check hotel guest lists against their computer files, had found Mr. Boulez's name among those posing a potential threat.
During the 2009 Eurovision, several Azeris who voted for the Armenian contestant were called in for questioning for posing a "potential security threat" and being "unpatriotic".
A further concern, in Belgium and elsewhere, is that young volunteers will return to Europe radicalized by their experiences, posing a potential terrorist threat to their own countries.
Shariah, the legal code of Islam based on the Koran, forbids debt, posing a potential problem for contract enforcement in the case of default.
These investments were already losing value at the time of the I.P.O., they argued, posing a potential risk to the firm's performance fees.
In the language of science: "Antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) are emerging contaminants posing a potential worldwide human health risk," the researchers wrote in an abstract.
A biotechnology company hopes to begin clinical trials next year on what it says will be a cheaper and more convenient way to provide the anemia drug erythropoietin, posing a potential challenge to Amgen and Johnson & Johnson.
Grayling, a prominent voice in the campaign to leave the EU, also said that terrorists would pose as refugees to enter the bloc, posing a potential threat to Britain's national security.
