Potent in a sentence as an adjective

So you're not going to get radiation sickness from Pu, it's just a very potent carcinogen.

Making it difficult to profit from crime has been a very potent force in reducing crime in general.

Put the two together and it's an extremely potent combination, as long as they can pull off the collaboration effectively.

He had access to all kinds of chemicals and substances at the as part of his PHD and he had been taking little bits for months and months and making a potent cocktail of poison.

If you have the skill and focus to hold a mindful, meditative state for one hour, much less 6, you will have a very potent experience-- probably much more meaningful than most drug trips.

This is a potent message for municipalities that are sitting pretty on financial or other perks they've extracted from AT&T or other telecoms.

Less potent inhibitors are used at lower doses in Alzheimer's disease as it is hoped that they will improve cognitive function and perhaps even slow disease progression.

And I said something like "You old fellas just do not appreciate how potent science is today, we'll have a cure in 5 years max"...The fact that 30 years later we cured ONE person has really deflated my hubris.

Just as in the case of phones becoming potent computational devices, the answer is - because we can and because it brings benefits that aren't easily solvable by any alternative.

Their therapeutic potential really should be investigated by mainstream psychiatry, but I don't think most people need them in order to have powerful, beautiful spiritual experiences.

"Overboard" is a municipal website that has potent imagery of fully armored police officers pointing semi-automatic weapons at ten mugshots of wretched looking "Most Wanted" minorities.

Concerning the broader claims on which the jury hung, it still faces a potent objection from Google that it cannot assert copyright violations based on the 37 API packages owing to defects in how the Java program was registered with the copyright office.

One aspect to the "instantly hook a user" theory that I have not seen mentioned here is the following:Taking a potent drug like heroine or ******* for the first time is described by some users as "pushing open a door to a very enjoyable place you did not know existed".

The salient quote from Greenwald's article on this:They completely abused their own terrorism law for reasons having nothing whatsoever to do with terrorism: a potent reminder of how often governments lie when they claim that they need powers to stop "the terrorists", and how dangerous it is to vest unchecked power with political officials in its name.

Potent definitions

adjective

having great influence

See also: powerful

adjective

having or wielding force or authority; "providing the ground soldier with increasingly potent weapons"

See also: strong

adjective

having a strong physiological or chemical effect; "a potent toxin"; "potent liquor"; "a potent cup of tea", "a stiff drink"

See also: strong stiff

adjective

(of a male) capable of copulation

See also: virile