Sentences with phrase «potentially powerful means»

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First, as the title of a key chapter puts it, the American example shows that religion can «Make Use of Democratic Instincts» in a manner mutually beneficial to itself and democracy; second, sustainable democracy needs religion, which means we can expect democratic peoples to remain attached to its continuance or at least potentially receptive to its revival (cf. II, 2.17, # s 17 - 20); third, democratic times, because they are enlightened times, tend to be ones of increasing doubts about religion; fourth, the relevant religion for America and Europe, Christianity, will be tugged against and perhaps eroded by powerful and ongoing democratic currents toward liberationist and materialist mores; and fifth, religion's authority in democratic society will always rest upon common opinion.

«Power» means it can «do» something, («doing» means it starts to «do» something, does it, and then stops doing it, (unless you are really saying it was «potentially powerful», but doing nothing), Wise means it thinks something, (starts thinking it, thinks it, stops thinking it).

Meaning: To have become associated with something powerful and potentially dangerous; To have a very difficult problem to solve.

Since the Xbox 360 is capable of producing 0.25 terraFLOPS, this means that Unreal Engine 4 could potentially require a console ten times more powerful than existing hardware (not taking optimisation into account).

In either case, specific user information was merely a means to an end, a building block in a far more ambitious construction: a behavioral model powerful enough to manipulate people's activity and, potentially, sway elections.