The International Energy Agency, an intergovernmental energy advisor, has projected an almost in conventional oil production by 2020 and the potential for a serious gap between supply and demand by 2015.

VOA: standard.2009.10.20

It's also seen as a potential game changer for the struggling newspaper and magazine publishing industry, because of its built-in electronic reader.

VOA: standard.2010.05.28

Researchers in Melbourne hope to isolate the most effective compounds for use in a potential vaccine.

VOA: standard.2010.01.20

"If you granted amnesty to 11 million undocumented workers you are flooding the market with the potential of those folks competing for jobs with Americans.

VOA: standard.2010.04.12

As for Gaza,Hamzawy argues Egypt has a right to stop the potential influx of violence.

VOA: standard.2009.11.03

And the other breakthrough we've made is we've actually discovered some molecules which are on the way to being potential drugs for the disease as well."

VOA: standard.2010.04.05

Retired Indian army Major General Dipankar Banerjee, dismisses worries of a potential coup and Indian re-intervention, but says Fonseka may desire to use the latter possibility for political currency.

VOA: standard.2009.11.14

Not only will we do a better job of treating patients, but,we will be helping to prevent the potential spread of resistance to artemisinins, our most important class of medicines for treating malaria."

VOA: standard.2010.03.09

She told U.N.delegates and women activists here that the harrowing testimony she heard only underscored for her the point that societies cannot reach their full potential if half the population, women and girls, are oppressed and subjugated.

VOA: standard.2009.09.25

American lives are on the line." Opposition Republicans see an opening in the administration's flawed handling of the failed attack, and appear eager to highlight the incident as a potential campaign issue for the November midterm congressional elections.

VOA: standard.2010.01.06

"This has a great potential for being a very wide net that catches the wrong people and in fact does not take the targeted approach that is required to address the problem of these small terrorist networks."

VOA: standard.2009.09.10

It is a big win for Aziz as Boulkheir and Daddah both had publicly pledged to support the other in a potential run-off against him, if no candidate won more than Aziz ran a populist campaign, calling himself the "Candidate of the Poor,"

VOA: standard.2009.07.19

Defense analyst Michael O'Hanlon is with the Brookings Institution in Washington: "You had friends and enemies everywhere on the battlefield, and so that,for the most part, meant that if you got into trouble as a westerner you had potential help not too far away."

VOA: standard.2010.04.06

In his speech, the president indicated he may be willing to cede some ground in the ongoing political battle over abortion, calling for a "sensible conscience clause" to be included in any potential new freedom of choice legislation, so that doctors and nurses who oppose abortions cannot be forced to perform them.

VOA: standard.2009.05.17

"We discussed climate change extensively and all of us agreed that it was imperative for us to redouble our efforts in the weeks between now and the Copenhagen meeting to assure that we create a framework for progress in dealing with what is a potential ecologic disaster,"

VOA: standard.2009.11.03