And yet self-defense is a potent claim under a 2005 Florida law known as "Stand Your Ground".
Just as Mr. Gore issued no concession, Mr. Bush made no overt move to claim the legally insignificant but politically potent title of president-elect.
Europe is visibly shrinking and Juncker is a symbol of that shrunken, quiet-life parochialism, the head-in-the-sand candidate, presented as the pan-European democratic choice when Marine Le Pen, Nigel Farage or Beppe Grillo each has a more potent national claim.
By James Surowiecki Of the countless reasons that congressional Republicans hate the Affordable Care Act enough to shut down the government, the most politically potent is the claim that it will do untold damage to the economy and cripple small companies.
Of the countless reasons that congressional Republicans hate the Affordable Care Act enough to shut down the government, the most politically potent is the claim that it will do untold damage to the economy and cripple small companies.
The group controls Mosul in Iraq in addition to Raqqa and a swathe of territory in between, and has proven a potent threat abroad, claiming responsibility for major attacks in Paris in November and Brussels in March.
These efforts had conclusively addressed psychostimulation and the claimed potent reinforcing properties of Khat constituents.
As historian Amy Dru Stanley summarizes, "beyond a handful of landmark rulings striking down debt peonage, flagrant involuntary servitude, and some instances of race-based violence and discrimination, the Thirteenth Amendment has never been a potent source of rights claims".
Fentanyl is extremely potent, highly addictive, and claiming lives.
A review in New York's Daily News called it "potent and creepy" and claimed that the plot "was worthy of honorary passage into The Twilight Zone".
And yet, such claims could prove potent ammunition for the pro-Europeans nevertheless, especially if endorsed by more people at the top of big companies.
