They have established themselves by more potent means, through business and entertainment.

The new committee found an immediate ally in the district societies, which saw it as a potent means of influencing the Institute's technical effort.

Fire was and still is the most potent means of driving the evil spirits away.

'And if he thought fashion was one of the more potent means whereby women can achieve self-expression.'

Such a penalty would be a potent means of restraining drug prices, which increased more than twice as fast as other consumer prices in the last decade.

Its economic might has also become a potent means for extending its influence into Eastern Europe.

"But our immediate need is less to describe Ming-shu's hate in terms of classical analogy than to find a potent means of baffling its vevom."

To be sure, the Federal Reserve's monetary policy is still the most potent means of pumping the economy with immediate impact.

The Internet has emerged not only as an effective propaganda tool of the government, but also as a potent means to organize and publicize popular discontent.

Various authoritarian states- for example those with fascist or communist governments-employed the death penalty as a potent means of political oppression.