But the technology had come to be seen as a scientific oddity with scant practical potential when Dr. Baker was exposed to it in 1959 as a Fulbright fellow working under G.H.J. Broers, a Dutch scientist, at the Laboratory for Electrochemistry at the University of Amsterdam.
Dr. Moll saw scant commercial potential for long-distance surgery, but he became convinced that the technology, being developed by SRI International, a nonprofit contract research firm in Palo Alto, Calif., could be adapted to make routine surgery much less invasive in the hands of civilian surgeons.
How about the same method to deliver vaccines, sparing the costs of refrigeration and needles?There's scant commercial potential here, but there's a need.
He also scants the potential richness and depth of Livingstone's story: the way his muted opposition to the colonialism made possible by his very exploring turns him into something of a tragic figure.
The No on 8 campaign described its opponents' arguments as scare tactics but it was unable to convince voters, running vague TV ads which made scant use of potential resources, particularly those within the local celebrity community.
As far as Miliband is personally concerned, Klass's diatribe is just one more unfortunate incident in a long line of unfortunate incidents, each of them eroding an already scant supply of potential-prime-minister gravitas.
They would be laughable, except a major party has nominated him for president, and his name will appear on the nation's ballots, giving potential, however scant at the moment, to the possibility of his election.
Under questioning from Judge Gregory M. Sleet, the potential jurors displayed scant familiarity with the stakes.
As regulators weigh the benefits of drilling 40,000 gas wells across New York State, the Department of Environmental Conservation's scant analysis of fracking's potential costs overstates job benefits and omits state Transportation Department estimates of road maintenance costs exceeding $375 million.
Evidence on the potential impact is scant, though a large body of economic research suggests that individuals are not currently making optimal retirement-saving decisions.
