Although potentially fact-threatening and usually avoided, imperative clauses can be viewed as an indication of the powerful status of the speaker over the hearer when actually used, especially in comparison with the modulated indicative form such as 'You should…'(Eggins and Slade 1997, 88).
On the one hand, they weren't informed of a potentially important fact about the deal, namely that the person who had helped put together the C.D.O. was betting on it to fail.
Television shows and films smuggled in on memory sticks confront North Koreans with the potentially revolutionary fact that their brethren in the South live in comfort and plenty and without the fear of a knock on the door at midnight.
Here is a chilling and potentially lethal fact of life: A person on the F.B.I.'s terrorist watch list is barred from boarding an airplane yet is quite free to buy high-power firearms and ammunition at any American gun shop.
But this potentially sordid fact — the gruesome murder of an illogically optimistic, erratically creative woman who "liked horses and men," though "that's not who she was" — is not, as it might have been in the hands of a lesser writer, the book's main point.
As pointed out by more than one superdelegate, Clinton has triumphed in many of the traditional swing states on the electoral map, a potentially persuasive fact for those trying to map out a path to November success.
There existed "potentially problematic facts and circumstances" regarding the idea of a Global Football Fund proposed by Chung Mong-joon, a Fifa executive committee member and honorary president of the Korean FA.
While certain Qatari officials could yet be punished by the ethics committee, Eckert concluded: "The potentially problematic facts and circumstances identified by the report concerning the Qatar 2022 bid were, all in all, not suited to compromise the integrity of the 2018/22 bidding process as whole".
Begin by considering potentially relevant facts about the person who is being blamed.
Using data from over 22,000 households and 62,000 agricultural plots, we offer ten potentially surprising facts about modern input use in Africa today.
I'm here to entertain you with what I hope will be witty banter, regale you with possibly amusing stories and educate you with potentially interesting facts.
