It seems to me that there is this latent potential everywhere, all around us.

Water is the key to life, but in frozen form, it is a latent force.

These animals have within them the latent capacity to live much longer than they normally do.

What's another latent body of information that's out there that people are really not putting to use?

And then, as you grow up, the cortex develops, and inhibits these latent sexual urges towards your mother.

So there it sits on our shelves obsolete to us, but with immediate latent value to someone else.

You'll start talking about the latent bestiality in all humans, or some such thing, which is quite absurd, of course.

I've been talking today about latent information, all this information that exists in the system that we're not putting to use.

Examples were given of enhanced use of closed circuit television (CCTV) technology, deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) databases, and science for detection of latent fingerprints.

Since their invention in the previous century, the latent threat posed by nuclear weapons has always represented one of the paramount dangers confronting mankind's survival.

Flagrant acts of arbitrariness in the conflict zone take place in the very presence of the peacekeeping forces and in many cases with their latent consent.

First, illness is more likely to be reported in a city hospital than at a specialist institute. Second, the investment would boost latent public health in that region.

Where threats are not imminent but latent, the Charter gives full authority to the Security Council to use military force, including preventively, to preserve international peace and security.

Heatwaves and droughts on one hand, directly from the warming, but also, because a warmer atmosphere holds more water vapor with its latent energy, rainfall will become in more extreme events.

When oil prices rise, Russia expresses its latent resentments more aggressively, often employing its military. Moreover, at higher prices, the oil industry crowds out other export sectors that support open markets and a less aggressive foreign policy.

And then what happens is, there's a blow to your head, damaging the cortex, allowing these latent sexual urges to emerge, flaming to the surface, and suddenly and inexplicably you find yourself being sexually aroused by your mother.

Latent global demand for enlightened US leadership, which first appeared at the end of World War I, can survive budgetary constraints and even misguided military interventions. What it cannot survive is an abdication of interest by the US Congress.

Unlocking the world s latent talent, and thus its full capacity for growth, requires us to look beyond business cycles and quarterly reports. The future is full of potential, but only if we are smart enough and courageous enough to grasp it.

This policy ignited a latent conflict, with a military coup in 1999 putting General Robert Gueï in power. But Gueï lasted only three years, with his assassination in 2002 setting the country s conflicting sides on a path to civil war.

So currency works as a constant, if latent, reminder of identity. In using it, one has the psychological experience of participating with others in a common venture, and thus developing a sense of trust in both the endeavor and one s fellow participants.

There may also be latent concern about foreign policy in the attention being given to the quantity and quality of candidates relevant experience. A desire for change is a common refrain of the American debate, but it is far from the only one.

The key to this puzzle is tacit knowledge. To make stuff, you need to know how to make it, and this knowledge is, to a large extent, latent not available in books, but stored in the brains of those who need to use it.

Rather than lead, the Franco German couple is constantly, and publicly, at each other s throats. While today s quarrel is about who should pay for restructuring Greece, the real issue is the latent distrust between the two partners, which carries the danger of a permanent estrangement.

Encourages Member States to take preventive measures to control latent precursors that may be converted into drugs liable to abuse before those precursors are placed under the control of the United Nations Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances of 1988.

Egyptian porn before Nasser featured local beauties and voyeurism, but now focuses on fair haired and pale skinned women, sometimes with forced sex as a theme. Egyptian born Sheik Hilaly, in Sydney, may have been verbalizing a latent sense of otherness and mistaking it for insight.

Bush must be willing to accept Europeans as genuine partners and stop treating them like recalcitrant vassals. European leaders must overcome any latent Anti Americanism and be prepared to make the kind of contributions to common endeavors that would entitle them to equal partnership with the US.

Because actually radical innovation does sometimes come from the very best, but it often comes from places where you have huge need unmet, latent demand and not enough resources for traditional solutions to work traditional, high cost solutions, which depend on professionals, which is what schools and hospitals are.

For developing countries to benefit fully from industrial upgrading in China and other large emerging market economies, their governments must identify tradable industries that are consistent with their latent comparative advantage. They also must help private firms to resolve information, coordination, and externality issues in the process of industrial upgrading.

The current oil price boom represents an opportunity for reform and for greater financial and economic development it could resolve the region's long term crisis with respect to employment and low growth and provide opportunities for appropriate conservation schemes for the region's natural resources and its latent endowment of wealth.

In accordance with the terms of the contract, the insurer may inspect the subject matter of the insurance concerning its safety conditions and, within a reasonable time, propose reasonable written suggestions to the applicant or the insured to eliminate risks and latent problems undermining the safety of the subject matter of the insurance.

Relative prices are much easier to change when there is modest inflation than when nominal price reductions are required. The need for higher productivity in the troubled countries is undeniable but achieving it in the current climate of extreme austerity and deflation is unlikely, given an atmosphere of latent, or open, social conflict.

That is a surprising proposition, given that commodity bonds have an obvious latent market, rooted in real economic fundamentals. After all, steel companies have an inherent need to hedge against fluctuations in the price of iron ore, just as airlines and utilities have an inherent need to hedge against fluctuations in the price of oil.

Both were keen to make a clear distinction between, on the one hand, pre emptive or anticipatory self defence, to which a State might resort when an attack on its territory was clearly imminent, and on the other, long range preventive use of force to deal with latent, non imminent or even hypothetical threats.

Such an alternative is provided by the politics of nationalism, sectarianism, and identity a politics based on cultural values and symbolism rather than bread and butter interests. When politics is waged on these grounds, elections are won by those who are most successful at priming our latent cultural and psychological markers, not those who best represent our interests.

The US and other extra regional powers should take advantage of this fact, invoking their latent collective custody of the Spratly and the Paracel Islands in accordance with the San Francisco Treaty, and internationalize separate bilateral diplomatic processes between China and regional claimants. The treaty s parties could even hold a conference to deliberate on the matter.

Nevertheless, the rise of Euroskeptic parties, in a number of countries including Britain, France, Belgium, Poland, and the Czech Republic, has worrying implications for a summit meeting whose purpose is to take European integration a small but unmistakable step forward. In Britain, in particular, the spectacular surge of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) can only strengthen the government's long standing latent Euroskepticism.

The inclusion of women's concerns in the socioeconomic development plan is intended to close the gap between the sexes by enhancing the economic, social and political independence of women, and improving their education and health, which will increase the capacity of the country to mobilize its latent productive resources, recognizing that women account for more than half of the working population.

It is not for nothing that such facilities have been described as bomb starter kits, and that Iran s progress down that path whether deliberately designed to give it a latent weapons breakout capability or not has spooked so many others in the international community. That is why there was so much pressure to produce the deal now on the table, which dramatically limits Iran s enrichment capability.

They have disagreed about whether States have the right to use military force pre emptively, to defend themselves against imminent threats whether they have the right to use it preventively to defend themselves against latent or non imminent threats and whether they have the right or perhaps the obligation to use it protectively to rescue the citizens of other States from genocide or comparable crimes.

Having remained latent for a number of years, it is now being transformed at a high speed into a real alternative to, or a replacement for, the United Nations in the medium term, or a Trojan horse designed to split the Non Aligned Movement and the Group of 77 and China, which, as everyone knows, represent the majority of the States and peoples in the Assembly.

(b) Income disparities measured in terms of assets, such as the distribution of land, represent a serious barrier to many skilled individuals who wish to access the credit market but do not possess collateral they lead to lower stocks of human and physical capital and can influence public policy through the preferential tax treatment of asset owners. Redistributive policies and or creating new assets will activate latent domestic demand and increase supply capacities

The third example is the Secretary General's proposal to legitimize and transfer to the Council the right to decide when there are latent threats to international peace and security the task of carrying forward the preventive war aspect of the Bush doctrine, conferring legitimacy on it under the multilateral system, and opening the way to the use of force against any target that the Department of State decides to include as part of the axis of evil .