Clearly, an important factor in developing a child's long-term potential for independence and success is early intervention.

He saw no long-term commercial potential in film so he turned his back on it.

But many average investors look at a new stock for its long-term potential.

This is a strategy for investors who believe that a stock has good long-term potential but expect the market to fall.

Philadelphia's management saw Bradley as a major project with huge long-term potential.

The other was an improvement in the nation's long-term economic potential.

As a result, they routinely sell off some of their long-term potential to big drug companies in return for capital or other support.

Committee members, according to the minutes, expected growth to slow "to a pace close to or somewhat above that of the economy's long-term potential."

There is the long-term potential for an internal argument over who the quarterback should be.

Still, financially speaking, China is a market that can only be justified on its long-term potential.