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From this long process, in which surviving and thriving meant acquiring and adhering to the local social rules, we emerged as potent social learners.
Third, the most potent social norms harness aspects of our evolved psychology.
The most potent threat to Spain’s economic recovery stems from the labor market.
Muslim intellectuals are being encouraged to press the religious argument against fundamentalist violence in order to deprive the terrorists of their most fearsome and potent arguments.
In Siberia, vast quantities of methane, an extremely potent greenhouse gas, are locked up in what used to be called “permafrost” – regions in which it was assumed that the ground was permanently frozen.
Even more potent, however, is the challenge coming from within the West itself, where anti-establishment political forces in the US and Europe are winning support by contesting long-accepted values and forms of cooperation.
The Koran burnings are a potent symbol of that systemic threat.
And, of course, the resurgence of nationalism and extremism of all kinds around the world is a potent reminder, as if any were needed, that peace is not to be taken for granted.
But climate change has made the floods, storms, earthquakes, heat waves, cold snaps, droughts, and landslides that mankind has come to expect much more potent.
Rather than a potent arsenal with credible long-range capabilities, it would have an unreliable arsenal with potentially no miniaturized nuclear warheads.
Given this potent list of challenges, what are the prospects for Obama’s passage to India?
If these potent forces of change can be strengthened, India will emerge, like China, into one of the world's economic leaders, and an engine of global economic development.
Emigration is at historic highs, and a new rebel force has appeared in the form of an aggressive - and potent - rightwing paramilitary army.
Machiavelli's metaphor for the mystery of effective political conduct provides a potent template.
Moreover, Europe’s ability to exert pressure on China is extremely limited at best, and may be least potent where Chinese domestic matters are concerned.
In particular, “hot” capital inflows make it difficult for financially open economies like Brazil to maintain a competitive currency, depriving them of what is in effect the most potent form of industrial policy imaginable.
Without potent policies aimed at counteracting these trends, inequality will almost certainly continue to rise in the coming years.
While policymakers have intensified their focus on trade and new technologies, they have missed an even more potent driver of inequality: the endemic rent-seeking that stems from market concentration, heightened corporate power, and regulatory capture.
Europe’s digital frontrunners are beginning to organize into a potent force, with 16 small EU countries, from Denmark to Ireland and Estonia, having formed a pro-Internet group.
There is a potent immediacy to documents that have hyperlinks to footage of veterans being trodden underfoot by mounted police at a demonstration at the US presidential debates, or students being gassed in their rooms during the recent G-20 summit.
First, extreme financial distress can bring down the real economy, with a shortage of credit being the most potent channel.
Last year Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping committed to phase out hydrofluorcarbons, a potent greenhouse gas.
Family and social bonds remain potent in the face of adversity.
China's plans for the Silk Road combine economic, diplomatic, energy, and security objectives in an effort to create an expansive network of linked facilities to boost trade, aid strategic penetration, and permit an increasingly potent and active submarine force to play an expanded role.
For Iran, escaping economic sanctions – which are being eased only so long as it respects the deal – remains a potent motivation.
Data provided by diagnostic devices could be a potent weapon in containing these outbreaks.
The threat of sanctions remains potent, and the Iranian business community – not to mention the public – has felt the sting of isolation.
By standing aside as Thailand’s opposition and traditional elite seek to undermine the country’s democracy in the name of a permanent right to rule, Asia’s democracies risk driving some elements of the Thaksin camp into the arms of China, which would happily accept the role of patron to so potent a political force.
As much as German policymakers might enjoy the growing demand for their contributions to international politics, the country’s membership in the EU remains its most potent source of power and security.
Indeed, perhaps Ukraine’s Orange Revolution, with those thousands of protesters in Kiev’s Independence Square served as a potent reminder to China’s leaders of the Tiananmen Square protests 15 years ago, and – in contrast to Ukraine – their own strategy of brutal repression.
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