Sentence examples for proved potent from inspiring English sources

Nevertheless, the aesthetics promoted by Simons and Slimane have proved potent.

It proved potent — to the tune of more than 100,000 dead.

Insecticides have proved potent in controlling mosquito populations in affected areas.

Annabelle, spun off from The Conjuring, proved potent in the US at the weekend and arrives here on Friday.

But the industry's argument to legislators — that law-abiding citizens should not have to pay for a doctor's visit for a mere stuffy nose — has proved potent.

A mix of comedy and pain also proved potent for the original play "August: Osage County," while two other new plays, "The Lieutenant of Inishmore" and "The Little Dog Laughed," were sharp satires of political terrorism and Hollywood.

The combination proves potent.

The chocolate digit turns out to belong to an orang-utan, with bloody consequences.These attacks are proving potent.

The latest playbook — like the one that paid off in the wave of tobacco litigation — could prove potent, as the food companies' own lawyers have warned.

And yet, such claims could prove potent ammunition for the pro-Europeans nevertheless, especially if endorsed by more people at the top of big companies.

President Clinton signed the bill without a ceremony in part, aides said, because he did not want to give his wife's opponent a prominent stage on an issue that could prove potent with women.