Sentence examples for potent factors from inspiring English sources

'They bring freedom.' Such wars were as historically necessary as they were difficult to contain: 'The warfare that has extended the boundaries of civilization at the expense of barbarism and savagery has been for centuries one of the most potent factors in the progress of humanity.' This quotation comes from Paul Kramer's "The Water Cure" in next week's issue of The New Yorker.

Such wars were as historically necessary as they were difficult to contain: "The warfare that has extended the boundaries of civilization at the expense of barbarism and savagery has been for centuries one of the most potent factors in the progress of humanity.

These potent factors have helped brew a highly competitive environment that has thrust M&A into overdrive.

Viscosity and dielectric constant of the additives were potent factors to increase the conductivity of the hybrid film.

Sprint exercise and hypoxic stimulus during exercise are potent factors affecting hormonal and metabolic responses.

Epigenetics and microbiota are emerging as potent factors modulating disease risk and putatively affecting disease manifestation, which are also being explored as therapeutic targets.

Perhaps the most potent factor, though, is the warm spotlight of positive publicity.

Mr. Kaine's early endorsement of Mr. Obama was a potent factor in his remarkable 28-point landslide on Tuesday.

Felicia Blake, though, had another theory: that the presence of a new police substation, which opened in April, was the most potent factor.

Labour's unpopularity is the most potent factor in the national mood rather than any tangible surge of enthusiasm for the Conservatives.

"Tobacco use is such an enormously potent factor that it contaminates the findings," said Professor Tom Sanders, head of the nutritional sciences research division at King's College London.