Politicians are asking whether it is wise to risk the country's wildlife for the potential material riches of oil.
I ask about his latest misadventure, in which he revealed he had been invited to write potential material for Madonna's new album.
But the politically big announcements – big both in their potential material impact and in their symbolic significance as vote winners – were on housing and on fuel bills.
Suddenly Yarovaya is no longer the love-object Pieretta, but an organ-grinder's monkey, a weird, servile, scratchy little creature, potential material for bad dreams.
While such a transgression might have any number of unseen psychological or emotional tolls on African Americans, the potential material gains from passing for white have been historically obvious.
Robert Thompson, director of Syracuse University's Center for the Study of Popular Television, said that the growth of the cable and home video markets has helped, making "anything that ever played on TV potential material for repackaging".
(He didn't like Joan Crawford, who was already a major star in the twenties; he singled out young Bette Davis, just beginning her career in the early thirties, as "potential material").
The discussion concluded that stranded carbon assets present a potential material risk to the global economy and compared this to the risk of inflated real estate assets that precipitated the 2008 financial crisis.
Given its current cash account, HubSpot's proposed $100 million IPO is potential material recapitalization of its business.
"You realize that everything you say to me right now is potential material for a blog post".
Our theoretical results suggest multicomponent TiO2/ZnO nanocomposite as a potential material for gas sensing application.
