Sentence examples for potent reason from inspiring English sources

That gave the opposition a potent reason to mobilise protesters.

Ayer sets up the gang as the essence of self-destroying evil — nihilism as a working method and a game — and the two cops as fallible but potent reason personified.

Of course, this way of talking risks making a poet into a pedant — but the odd thing is that the pedantry, the insistence on singing good songs, is one simple but potent reason that Sinatra was such a good singer.

After the Soviet Union withdrew from Afghanistan in 1989, the onset of a guerrilla war in Kashmir gave the agency a politically more potent reason for being -- as the force to nurture a guerrilla conflict against India, through the proxy of militant Islamic groups.

This highhanded action offers yet one more potent reason to oppose the further government regulation or nationalization of just about anyone.

The most potent reason was simple: seeing the faces of gay and lesbian couples lined up around the country, children in tow, to get their marriage license.

A boss may scrutinize your job performance — your actions — but needs potent reasons to rummage around your skull.

And in an age when programmes like the X Factor and Britain's Got Talent have such a deep cultural impact, the BMJ study also provides potent reasons to discourage young people from believing that fame in itself is a desirable goal.

Social facts make a positive legal rule a reason for action because the desirability of authority as a means of securing common good, and the desirability of the "rule of law and not of men," are standing and potent reasons for acknowledging such facts as an instance of valid legislation giving presumptively sufficient reason for compliance.

Tribal leaders will use a mix of tribal law, pride and the sayings of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) as very potent reasons to avenge Gaddafi's death.

Also, the chancellor has armed himself with a potent new reason to resist demands from spending departments: if he gives way, the Bank will raise interest rates whether he likes it or not.