For both Wigan and Hull, Briscoe had featured at full-back, centre and on the wing, and that experience has given a huge amount to his offensive potency from full-back.

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He described his most famous appropriation of African masks, "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" (1907), as his "first exorcism painting" and believed its power stemmed from the spiritual potency of his African sources.

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Not all Warburg's advice was good, but no one doubted the potency of his financial power and political influence.

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In an era when high-flying tech companies outdo each other with worker perks, no-frills Bezos is proving the potency of another model: coddling his 164 million customers, not his 56, 000 employees.

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Former World Cup winning captain Johnson, widely criticized after the defeat by Australia and a disappointing win over Argentina, picked a physical side to combat the All Blacks but his team ultimately paid for a lack of attacking potency.

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Two years later his address book service, Plaxo, demonstrated the potency of digital propagation, something he took a step further as the 24-year-old president of Facebook, helping the social network become the most important Internet company since, well, maybe ever.

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His seeds are bred, he says, to produce plants of high potency.

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Coach Pat Quinn will surely have to re-evaluate his starting five after that 5-2 defeat, for there was no potency at all.

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Langer was trained as a chemical engineer, and his celebrated work has come at a time when huge strides in medicine--like the bumped-up potency of drugs--have coincided with advances in materials.

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