1.   For in the Soviet Union nuclear energy is a potent symbol of high technology and modernity.

2.   And their bastardised Phil Oakey fringes are, the entire media agrees, the most potent symbol of the End phenomena.

3.   The last and perhaps the most potent symbol of the division between East and West Germany is due to be demolished.

4.   And Friday he became a potent symbol of the value of pursuing and completing an education even after the accomplishment of great personal and professional success.

5.   At the beginning of the century, it had to compete with the train, a potent symbol of strength, speed, solitude and freedom.

6.   Brawley was elevated and abstracted into the poster child of race politics, a potent symbol of the discord of the era.

7.   Across Latin America and in the United States, the Virgin of Guadalupe remains a potent symbol.

8.   Airports are potent symbols of civic pride, and Hong Kong and Kuala Lumpur spared no expense to create glittering gateways.

9.   But as comptroller of the United States, he needs all the potent symbols he can find.

10.   But an international dialing code is perhaps an even more potent modern symbol of self-determination.