Sentence examples for potential brush from inspiring English sources

Regional conflicts were potential brush fires that could ignite a nuclear East-West confrontation, and Hammarskjold became an accepted go-between; his first success was to negotiate the release of the American airmen who had come down in the People's Republic of China during the Korean War and been imprisoned as spies.

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Asked whether or not in an ideal world they'd rather be doing something else that directly correlated to their unique skills, or ever wondered about wasted potential, most brushed off the idea.

They don't jump, but rather sit on tall grass or plants, waiting for potential hosts to brush against them.

He has only unleashed the full tar-laden potential of his brush since the untimely death of Hadid, who would often poke fun at his propensity to drift off into the realms of arcane theorising and mock his political earnestness.

A singer and baby are investigating the percussive potential of a brush head, while another musician multi-tasks with a tiny bell in one hand and a violin in the other.

There is, therefore, the potential for laryngeal brushing to be developed further in the context of less-invasive detection of early laryngeal epithelial lesions, although this will ultimately be dependent upon the availability of flexible nasoendoscopic equipment and refinement of techniques to allow the use of a fine brush as an outpatient procedure.

He thinks the rescue of Bear Stearns emboldened the ailing Lehman Brothers to brush off potential saviors like Warren E. Buffett, who were ready to invest in it.

According to one worried email exchange seen by the Guardian, senior Labour advisers then discussed the need to keep it quiet and how to brush off potential inquiries by journalists, which did not materialise.

Fifty healthy volunteers were studied to assess the potential applications of oral brush sampling using liquid-based cytology.

SGLT-mediated glucose transport is an active process, moving glucose against a concentration gradient, utilizing energy derived from the sodium electrochemical potential gradient across the brush border membrane and maintained by the transport of intracellular sodium into the blood via sodium:potassium adenosine triphosphatase (ATPase) pumps at the basolateral membrane 26.