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  • I have no doubt that there are brilliant 3D movies lurking in potentia out there in the breasts of filmmakers, yearning to burst free.

    Boing Boing 2009

  • After all, terrorist plots will always exist in potentia (can you prove that no terrorist plots are hatching at this moment?)

    Boing Boing: August 6, 2006 - August 12, 2006 Archives 2006

  • After all, terrorist plots will always exist in potentia (can you prove that no terrorist plots are hatching at this moment?)

    unbillable hours: 2006

  • After all, terrorist plots will always exist in potentia (can you prove that no terrorist plots are hatching at this moment?)

    Interesting Times 2006

  • If you think you or a loved one may be a co-dependent librarian or librarian in potentia, call 1-800-LIB-LICK today!

    Librarians, Co-Dependent Profession? LICKS 2006

  • Perhaps you are a librarian, actual or in potentia.

    Librarians, Co-Dependent Profession? LICKS 2006

  • On the one hand there is potentia, which is the power that is essential to the individual (Barbone and Rice 2000, 17).

    Spinoza's Political Philosophy Steinberg, Justin 2008

  • This is termed potentia logica, which is no more but a negation of any contradiction to existence; not potentia physica, which includes a disposition unto actual existence.

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

  • "Bureaucratic processes have also been identified as a potentia hinderance to the growth and development of the corridor.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

  • No system expresses all possible qualities - there are always qualities in-potentia, submerged in nature, which are not expressed by the system.

    Bill Shireman: What I Learned from My Dead Grandfather Bill Shireman 2010

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