Which preposition to use with potential
The captain was much more potential in providing a supper at the evening station than the orderly, who was looked upon with some suspicion when he told the story of his protégés.
The great enigma which it propounds to us, and which, like the riddle of the Sphinx, we will solve or be destroyed, is this: Has the increase in the potential of human power, through thermodynamics, been accompanied by a corresponding increase in the potential of human character?
Yet always they excel your philosophers, insomuch as they accept the transcendental as really transcendental and do not profess to instruct the Almighty in it; and chiefly, perhaps, they excel your philosophers by opposing a creativeness, potential at any rate, against a certain and foredoomed barrenness.
7. It has raised its potential for destruction far above and beyond its potential for production and construction.
When an idea is thus realized and made objective, it affirms its own truth, nor can any process of the understanding shake its foundation; nay, it is to the mind an essential, imperative truth, then emerging, as it were, from the dark potential into the light of reality.
It will be seen that these lamps require a relatively intense current with much less fall of potential than the Swan, for examplethis being due to the diameter of the filament.