Bodyguards act as a shield for the potential target, keeping lookout for potential attackers ( sometimes in advance, for example on a parade route ), and putting themselves in harm's way — both by simple presence, showing that physical force is available to protect the target, and by shielding the target during any attack.

The potential energy is useful, for example, in understanding the concavity of the water surface in a rotating bucket.

For example, in a trick-taking game it may be easier to have all one's cards of the same suit together, whereas in a rummy game one might sort them by rank or by potential combinations.

This is crucial in assessing the sensitivity and potential accuracy difficulties of numerous computational problems, for example polynomial root finding or computing eigenvalues.

For example, if a person dies at the age of 65 from a disease, and would probably have lived until age 80 without that disease, then that disease has caused a loss of 15 years of potential life.

* Morse code uses six digital states — dot, dash, intra-character gap ( between each dot or dash ), short gap ( between each letter ), medium gap ( between words ), and long gap ( between sentences )— to send messages via a variety of potential carriers such as electricity or light, for example using an electrical telegraph or a flashing light.

If there is a change in the potential energy of a system ; for example μ < sub > 1 </ sub >> μ < sub > 2 </ sub > ( μ is Chemical potential ) an energy flow will occur from S < sub > 1 </ sub > to S < sub > 2 </ sub >, because nature always prefers low energy and maximum entropy.

In a competitive labour market for example the quantity of labour employed and the price of labour ( the wage rate ) depends on the demand for labour ( from employers for production ) and supply of labour ( from potential workers ).

This wavelength, for example, is equal to 0. 0037 nm for electrons accelerated across a 100, 000-volt potential.

If the electrode has a positive potential with respect to the SHE, then that means it is a strongly reducing electrode which forces the SHE to be the anode ( an example is Cu in aqueous CuSO < sub > 4 </ sub > with a standard electrode potential of 0. 337 V ).

For example, the standard electrode potential for a copper electrode is:

Some motors are powered by potential energy, for example some funiculars, gravity plane and ropeway conveyors have used potential energy of water or rocks, and some clocks have a weight that falls under gravity.

A simple example of potential energy is the work needed to lift an object in a gravity field, up to a support.

For example, all types of potential energy are converted into kinetic energy when the objects are given freedom to move to different position ( as for example, when an object falls off a support ).

Most free verse, for example, self-evidently continues to observe a convention of the poetic line in some sense, at least in written representations, though retaining a potential degree of linkage, however nebulous, with more traditional forms.

This inevitably reduced the potential duration of campaigns, as a large portion of any Greek army would need to return to their own professions ( especially in the case of farmers, for example ).

For example, potential foreign investors and their executive staff cannot maintain own bank accounts in Indonesia, unless they are tax-paying local residents ( paying tax in Indonesia for their worldwide income ).

Ivory-billed Woodpecker sighting analysis is considered by some to be a good example of cryptozoology's potential application in modern zoology.

At a regional level, groups of states can create political and legal bodies with sometimes complicated patchworks of overlapping provisions detailing the jurisdictional relationships between the member states and providing for some degree of harmonization between their national legislative and judicial functions, for example, the European Union and African Union both have the potential to become federated states although the political barriers to such unification in the face of entrenched nationalism will be very difficult to overcome.

For example, the delay in asserting the claim may have caused a great increase in the potential damages to be awarded, or assets that could earlier have been used to satisfy the claim may have been distributed in the meantime, or the property in question may already have been sold, or evidence or testimony may no longer be available to defend against the claim.

In The Prince, Machiavelli uses Borgia as an example to elucidate the dangers of acquiring a principality by virtue of another.

However, some scientists consider these fears about the dangers of METI as panic and irrational superstition ; see, for example, Alexander L. Zaitsev's papers.

He cites the example of the Cretans, who compromised and reconciled their differences and came together in alliance when faced with external dangers.

For example, they wanted to neutralize the dangers from Lithuania itself and to secure the fertile territories of Galicia – Volhynia.

Pius X's papacy featured vigorous condemnation of what he termed ' modernists ' and ' relativists ' whom he regarded as dangers to the Catholic faith ( see for example his Oath Against Modernism ).

In 1911, the composer Charles Villiers Stanford cited Meyerbeer's music as an example of the dangers he believed lay in improvising at the piano without a clear plan, ( although there is in fact no evidence to suggest Meyerbeer worked in this way ), writing: ' Man of genius though he was, as any man who wrote the fourth act of the Huguenots must have been, Meyerbeer is a sign-post of this danger of trusting to the pianoforte as a medium of inspiration.

* Morgan Spurlock — American filmmaker ; exposed through example the dangers of McDonalds in his documentary Super Size Me

The Great Irish Famine ( 1845 – 1849 ) is a well-known example of the dangers of monoculture.

The reliance of California on state income tax, rather than property tax, due to property taxes being limited by Proposition 13, has been cited as an example of the dangers of an income tax-reliant tax system and a cause of the 2008 – 10 California budget crisis.

An example is " The Butcher Shop " by Joachim Beuckelaer ( 1568 ), with its realistic depiction of raw meats dominating the foreground, while a background scene conveys the dangers of drunkenness and lechery.

This prevents children and others who are careless or unaware of the dangers of opening the equipment from doing so and hurting themselves ( from electrical shocks, burns or cuts, for example ) or damaging the equipment.

The press reported that Betts ' death was an example of the dangers of illegal drugs in general, and MDMA in particular.

Pre-war writings, such as The Psychological Diagnosis of Abe Sada ( 1937 ) depict Abe as an example of the dangers of unbridled female sexuality and as a threat to the patriarchal system.

In this essay, Jünger draws many parallels between drug experience and physical exploration, referring to the dangers of it as reefs for example.

By his ready willingness to face these dangers he set an example of self-sacrifice which will ever be remembered.

Gabriel tells him, " If redemption is what you seek, then that is what I will give you " before shooting him in the head with his bolt pistol, using him as an example to his men about the dangers of Chaos.

For example, a common theme is that a man cannot affect how long he lives no matter what dangers he puts himself in, as the duration of life is pre-determined.

The Duchess of Mazarine is used as an example of " the dangers of an ill Education and unequal Marriage ".

For example, anti-drug agencies previously used posters with images of drug paraphernalia as an attempt to show the dangers of drug use.

NASA programs previously used pencils ( for example a 1965 order of mechanical pencils ) but because of the substantial dangers that broken-off pencil tips and graphite dust pose in zero gravity to electronics and the flammable nature of the wood present in pencils a better solution was needed.

Another example is " The Untimely Death of Brad ", which is about the dangers posed by the Internet and tabloid culture.

baron Delamer of Dunham Massey, a person of unblemished honour, impartial justice, strict integrity, an illustrious example of steady and unalterable adherence to the liberties and properties of his country in the worst of times, rejecting all offers to allure, and despising all dangers to deter him therefrom, for which he was thrice committed close prisoner to the Tower of London, and at length tried for his life upon a false accusation of high treason, from which he was unanimously acquitted by his peers,

In " Terra Prime ", a cloned child of Charles Tucker III and T ' Pol was used by a xenophobic political group as an example of the " dangers " of inter-species breeding.

Some of them were quite terrifying and remained ingrained in the child's psyche well into adulthood, others were quite humorous and used comedy to show the dangers or ridicule the folly of those who ignore them ( Joe and Petunia are a good example of a comic PIF ).