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And furthermore, because many of those ozone-depleting substances are also very potent greenhouse gases, the Montreal Protocol has actually delayed global warming by more than a decade.
Curbing the growth of our human population is a side effect, though a potent one.
The question of ending one’s reign is particularly potent given that The Tempest is believed to be Shakespeare’s final play.
Later came roads and railroads, and they acted as potent firebreaks, interrupting further the flow of fire across this landscape.
So for the heart, we're going to have to bring stem cells in from the outside, and for this, we turn to the most potent stem cell type, the pluripotent stem cell.
They've got extra chemical bonds that constrain the shape of the molecule, and this makes them incredibly stable as well as highly potent.
In time, the doctor’s potent potion and uncanny instincts became known throughout the land.
Halicin has potent antibacterial activity against almost all antibiotic-resistant bacterial pathogens, including untreatable panresistant infections.
She also creates life-size fiberglass sculptures, often of animals, which she then completely covers in bindis, often with potent symbolism.
And cavitation is an extremely potent fluid dynamic phenomenon which occurs when you have areas of water moving at extremely different speeds.
So this is a potent force in fluid systems, and just to sort of take it one step further, I'm going to show you the mantis shrimp approaching the snail.
Embrace that responsibility, because it is the path to a healthier body, a more just and informed legal system, and a more flexible and potent emotional life.
And we want to measure this because, well, while you're eating a strawberry or drinking tea, why not select the one that's most potent for preventing cancer?
They're all common ones: Chinese jasmine, Japanese sencha, Earl Grey and a special blend that we prepared, and you can see clearly that the teas vary in their potency, from less potent to more potent.
But what's very cool is when we combine the two less potent teas together, the combination, the blend, is more potent than either one alone.
You can see they clearly hold their own, and in some cases, they're more potent than the actual drugs.
By contrast, years of marketing have taught me that if you actually want people to remember you and to appreciate what you do, the most potent things are actually very, very small.
We banned those chemicals, and we replaced them, unknowingly, with other substances that, molecule per molecule, are a hundred times more potent as heat-trapping, greenhouse gases than carbon dioxide.
Director Philip D'Antoni, the producer of "Bullet" and "The French Connection," ably creates a potent, gritty, starkly amoral no-nonsense tone, maintains a steady pace throughout and stages the action scenes with considerable rip-roaring vigor.
The spirit of Love, is one of the most potent messages in this series, and all I can say is, Bring it back.
A very potent drama of Faulkner's small town south dealing with an innocent black man's murder of local ne'er do wll.
Instead, it's a very pleasant, charming and even often thoughtful time capsule of the social and political upheavals of the groovy early 70's (the subplot involving Lynn and the revolutionaries is especially potent and provocative).
A potent mix of comedy and crime, this one takes chances where Tarantino plays it safe with the Hollywood formula.
Otherwise, you are missing some of the movies' most potent, time-specific dialogue.
Evocatively directed and slickly photographed psychological mystery thriller with an exceptional lead performance by a sombre Donald Sutherland, and potent support roles from Donald Pleasence and David Hemming.
As the deterioration of a couple and their grown niece becomes more grimly clear, the ironic imagery becomes more potent, from the old clock that is reset each night to the stone gods that gradually pile up outside the heroine's door.
This production should be bottled and sold as a cure for insomnia because it's about ten times as potent as any sleep aid on the market.
The singer dies, but not before making one last album that is to be played over the radio at, of course, midnight on Halloween (which would actually make it November 1st, a much less potent date to be sure).
Going beyond Keira, which in this movie is a real tomboy, pretty much different from the lovely action figure we're used to see, Mickey Rourke is back, with his usual slap-throwing face and his potent body.
I also find the bullfighting parallel to the story unnecessary, as it is a simply cruel thing and the symbolism is hardly potent enough to carry itself.
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