"potent measure" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to refer to a solution or a corrective action that is especially powerful or effective. For example, "The government is considering a potent measure to reduce violent crime in the city."
Buried in the fine print of the government appropriations bill now heading for passage is a potent measure of the gun lobby's muscle in the Republican-controlled Congress.
And the restaurant bolstered its rabbit bona fides by combining braised rabbit with fettuccine, olives and broccoli rabe in its heartiest dish, sauced with a potent measure of mustard that I found exhilarating one night but slightly overbearing another.
The CRT has also been referred to as a "potent measure of the tendency toward miserly processing" (Toplak et al., 2011, p. 1275).
Slow-steaming is the most potent measure for reducing fuel consumption with existing vessels, and it offers shipowners an attractive mix of reduced operational costs, lower external effects and lower vessel capacity on the shipping market.
Whilst the woodland was significant for many residents it was not strongly identified with Birchwood as a place: the quality of the community as symbolised by the behaviour of local individuals, community groups and institutions was regarded as a more potent measure of local identity.
Notably, although renal function, which is known to be a potent measure of prognosis in the ICU setting [ 19, 20], was an independent predictor of death in our study, the risk associated with abnormal renal function was additive to that of NT-proBNP.
Targeted temperature management has been demonstrated in major studies to be a potent neuroprotective measure in post-resuscitation care following cardiac arrest [ 11, 12].
There's reason to worry that very potent cannabis as measured by the content of THC creates higher risks of adverse reactions such as panic attacks and patterns of problem use.
The two shRNAs revealed similar inhibition of proliferation and T-cell differentiation for shAK2 #1 and shAK2 #2 (Supplementary Figure S1B, S1C), although shAK2 #2 was slightly more potent as measured in an RT-qPCR analysis and in a T-cell differentiation assay.
These results demonstrate the capabilities of our improved method as an alternative but more potent tool to measure the neuronal activities of brain slice in addition to electrophysiological method.
The novel benzofuran- and 2,3-dihydrobenzofuran-2-carboxamide derivatives exhibited potent cytotoxic activities (measured by the sulforhodamine B assay) at low micromolar concentrations against six human cancer cell lines: ACHN (renal), HCT15 (colon), MM231 (breast), NUGC-3 (gastric), NCI-H23 (lung), and PC-3 (prostate).
