Today, as in 1908, tales of Russian victimisation play potently to domestic opinion.
Not to be underestimated is his autobiographic essay, My Dark Places, which is an unprecedentedly horrific first person narration about growing up in LA's seamier – and potently dangerous – environs.
Yet the gun-control cause has a potently tragic new recruit.
"I DESIRE that the terror of my name should guard our frontiers more potently than chains or fortresses, that my word should be for the natives a law more inevitable than death," wrote Alexei Yermolov, Russia's legendary general who waged total war during his conquest of the north Caucasus in the early 19th century.
The Democrats' dislike of Mr Bush can partly be explained by disagreements over high policy most potently over Iraq.
The great red granite sphinx of Amenemhet II from Tanis expresses the idea most potently.
In 1994 that series was followed by another spin-off, Ghost Rider 2099, which potently mixed cyberpunk and horror.
He offered a goal threat himself, too, never more potently than at Everton in September 1963, when he struck a first-half hat-trick, and he was a versatile performer, sometimes playing s a rearguard sweeper.
Viv Richards, a batsman who played best when the stakes were highest, probably did seem to "represent the West Indies more potently" than anyone else; still, it would be nice to read how he deployed the trademark flip through mid-wicket Lister describes, in one of these do or die situations.
Dads never get tired of them – that's why they're so potently rubbish.
Pierre isn't really a short, sharp sort of writer; his skill, most potently exercised in his Booker Prize-winning 2003 debut Vernon God Little, is for messy, pungent, rambling anecdotes told in attention-seeking language.
