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Layla understood that her boyfriend was potentially dangerous.
Our words are potentially ambiguous.
Tom could see that a potentially dangerous situation could arise.
An ectopic pregnancy is dangerous and potentially fatal for the mother.
European scientists have discovered a potentially habitable planet orbiting Proxima Centauri, the closest star to our solar system.
Every man is potentially a corpse.
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We can't refer to him as Santa because then, potentially, people might start fearing that Santa Claus is actually dead.
You're a detective holding a potentially lethal weapon in a specimen bag, investigating a suspicious death.
Potentially greater.
Because potentially you're a great doctor.
This is a potentially violent case.
Senator, the control of time. is potentially the most valuable treasure that man will ever find.
Every German citizen today is potentially one of our informers.
In order to subvert attempts by fellow subjects to establish potentially intrusive telepathic rapport, she completely separated her telepathic, non-verbal self from her oral verbal self.
And he's potentially dangerous.
Many elements of the Delos Resort are potentially dangerous.
The boxes are rare, potentially dangerous, and we seem to have found a second one.
The Kzinti now possess a weapon potentially deadly to the entire galaxy.
Could it pick up potentially homicidal characteristics?
The very quality that gets you in trouble makes you potentially invaluable.
Every meeting with Sherlock Holmes is potentially dangerous.
Don't forget, she's still vicious and potentially dangerous.
The State will prove that the defendant, the American, Nathaniel Benton, is a paid saboteur and potentially a mass murderer.
Potentially, they're of equal value.
I do so enjoy our little visits, Mr. Bond. However potentially painful they may be.
But today we face a subtler and potentially much more dangerous enemy.
All drugs are potentially dangerous.
And potentially very intelligent.
However, the suspected presence of an alien spacecraft must be investigated, in case of potentially fissionable material.
We now possess. potentially. the most formidable force in the world for large-scale agricultural endeavors.
The scorpion's sexual problems are much more complicated and potentially dangerous.
Physical inspection and adjustment is essential, if potentially uncomfortable.
I'm a potentially great actress.
I think we're dealing with a potentially positive learning experience that can.
Arcimboldo is one of the first animators, producing still images, clearly, but they are already, potentially, about to move off from representing a face, if you like, into becoming dances of objects, in the Svankmajer manner.
Due to the potentially dangerous hazards involved.
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Greater accountability and stronger governance for such companies could potentially change lives, economies, and political systems around the world.
These countries need to recognize that if the US and the UK do implement even modest reforms, a lot of capital will flow elsewhere, potentially overwhelming regulatory systems that seemed to work well until now.
Since shareholder democracy does not provide effective control over entrenched, runaway, self-indulgent management, finance has a potentially powerful role to play in ensuring that corporate managers work in the interest of shareholders.
A US-backed Israeli-Syrian peace could transform the strategic environment, potentially drawing other Middle East spoilers into a system of regional cooperation and security.
If policymakers are not careful, two problems, in particular, can reinforce each other, potentially pushing the economy over the precipice.
Sustained moderate inflation would help to bring down the real value of real estate more quickly, and potentially make it easier for German wages to rise faster than those in peripheral countries.
There are other potentially harmful pleasures in the environment that are less known, but not less destructive than those that are.
Draghi reversed the euro's slide into oblivion by promising potentially unlimited purchases of member governments' bonds.
A driver must constantly be aware of them - and of the potentially deadly perils they can conceal.
Encouraging widespread capital ownership could potentially give rise to good policies.
If not, Greece will have less control over its adjustment and potentially experience far greater trauma, perhaps eventually outright default.
Both outcomes are potentially risky and costly, but the US public, in particular, should be made aware that it was Iran that rejected a reasonable alternative to war before one began.
We need our central bankers to make complex decisions and to be able to balance potentially conflicting objectives.
My visits deepened my view that there is a potentially destabilizing contradiction between China's short- and medium-term economic performance.
This is why so many threads of discussion turn from potentially interesting citizen speculation to hate speech and paranoia.
The most important and potentially sustaining feature of a new democracy lies in its effort to commit itself to observing international human-rights standards.
But that rule is rightly recognized as being potentially dysfunctional.
Mood stabilizers are the treatment of choice, and, depending on the medication, they can produce potentially significant health complications affecting renal, endocrine, hepatic, immunologic, or metabolic function.
It may well be true that Obama would rather exercise caution - even when bold action is called for - than act impulsively and potentially cause more damage.
This, in turn, would support fragile balance-of-payments positions throughout the region, potentially assisting with pervasive debt-repayment problems.
Official resources currently are sufficient to bail out Greece, Ireland, and Portugal, but not to prevent a self-fulfilling run on the short-term sovereign and financial liabilities of Spain and other potentially distressed eurozone members.
Now we think of them as claims on increasingly scarce resources in a rapidly growing world, with prices potentially skyrocketing any day.
While some of the plethora of anniversaries that China's leaders must confront are potentially very destabilizing, several have, and will, work in their favor.
Had the United States and its allies pursued an approach centered on punitive sanctions, as with Cuba and Burma, the result would have been a less prosperous, less open, and potentially destabilizing China.
Externally, major trading partners and holders of advanced-country assets can support rebalancing by agreeing to avoid sudden and potentially destabilizing shifts in the composition of their balance sheets.
The name comes from the number of parts per million of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere that, according to Jim Hansen, perhaps the world's leading climate scientist, we should not exceed if we are to avoid potentially catastrophic climate change.
But cotton potentially offers the best payback, because it has cash value on the international market and can be stored for long periods of time.
The most logical and potentially fruitful area of collaboration is climate change.
Their future is further clouded by the fact that the United States and the European Union will phase out their apparel quotas next year, potentially reducing quota-hopping investment in South Africa and the broader region.