| Sadra warns against the idea that potentiality is prior to actuality in an absolute sense. |
| Such an argument resists many of the typical counter-arguments directed at potentiality as an ethical consideration in the abortion debate. |
| Two world wars, a depression, and a cold war that threatened global annihilation ushered in a darker vision of human potentiality. |
| Since the reverse is not true, an actuality is prior in definition to its correlative potentiality. |
| There has been much controversy about the political meaning and potentiality of music video not to mention rock music and youth culture. |
| In spite of its destroying side, the superego offers a positive potentiality. |
