David Brooks defines limerence as a potentially positive, unifying, transformative encounter with the divine, or oneness of mankind.

The Act also includes an emphasis on promoting potentially transformative research, a phrase which has been included in the most recent incarnation of the Intellectual Merit review criterion.

Benkler's 2006 book The Wealth of Networks examines the ways in which information technology permits extensive forms of collaboration that have potentially transformative consequences for economy and society.

He examined the inter-relations between non-permanent production goods and " latent " or potentially economic permanent resources – building on the choice theoretical insight that, " processes that take more time will evidently not be adopted unless they yield a greater return than those that take less time.

Such accusations follow the breaking of some social norm, such as the failure to return a borrowed item, and any person part of the normal social exchange could potentially fall under suspicion.

* Facilitating acquisitions ( potentially in return for shares of stock )

Priapism () is a potentially painful medical condition, in which the erect penis or clitoris does not return to its flaccid state, despite the absence of both physical and psychological stimulation, within four hours.

In Book Four, he shoots Menelaus and wounds him with an arrow, sabotaging a truce that could potentially have led to the peaceful return of Helen of Troy.

This title was created in the Peerage of Ireland to enable him to potentially return to the House of Commons, as Irish peers did not have an automatic right to sit in the House of Lords.

* Dolly Shepherd, 1887 – 1983, the notable aviatrix, made her return to parachuting from balloons in a display at Ashby, after recovering from a potentially fatal accident

Regular endoscopy may also be useful to monitor changes in the tissue of the esophagus, since reflux may damage the esophagus over time, potentially causing the return of dysphagia, or a premalignant condition known as Barrett's esophagus.

Some of the most complex ( and potentially most lucrative ) forms of embezzlement involve Ponzi-like financial schemes where high returns to early investors are paid out of funds received from later investors duped into believing they are themselves receiving entry into a high return investment scheme.

Thus Johnston uses, " potentially hundreds of pitches per octave ," in way that is, " radical without being avant-garde ," and not for the creation of, " as-yet-unheard dissonances ," but in order to, " return ... to a kind of musical beauty ," he perceives as diminished in Western music since the adoption of equal-temperament ( Gann 1995, 1 ).

Even to this day, a Member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom is sent to Buckingham Palace as a ceremonial hostage during the State Opening of Parliament, in order to ensure the safe return of the sovereign from a potentially hostile parliament.

Having found on return a potentially dangerous lawsuit brought against him ( concerning ' illegal ' concerts in Siberia the year before ), Vysotsky wrote a defiant letter to Minister of Culture Pyotr Demichev where he stated his right to perform officially.

As mentioned earlier, many drugs should not be stopped abruptly without the advice and supervision of a physician, especially if the medication induces dependence or if the condition they are being used to treat is potentially dangerous and likely to return once medication is stopped, such as diabetes, asthma, heart conditions and many psychological or neurological conditions, like epilepsy, hypertension, schizophrenia and psychosis.

On his appointment as Viceroy of India in 1898 he was created Baron Curzon of Kedleston, in the County of Derby, in the Peerage of Ireland, to enable him to potentially return to the House of Commons ( as Irish peers did not have an automatic right to sit in the House of Lords ).

In light of financial difficulties for the franchise, it is believed Fleury's $ 3 million contract bonus, which he would have potentially received if he stayed and met several performance goals, was a factor in the decision to return him to Cape Breton.

The freeze was described by a British defence minister as ' unfortunate and misguided ', as it inhibited validation of the ‘ safety, reliability and effectiveness ’ of fail-safe mechanisms on upgraded warheads for the British Trident II D5 missiles, and potentially the development of a new deterrent for the 21st century, leading Major to consider a return to Pacific testing, and the Ministry of Defence to turn to computer simulation.

Though he preferred to return to the Angels, Salmon was aware that he was considered unlikely to make the team's roster, but he saw the opportunity to play with the team during the exhibition season as a chance to potentially audition for other teams.

Some designs of return climbers must carry up enough fuel to return it to earth, a potentially costly venture.

These bonuses are a form of marketing that may incur a cost ( potentially justifiable in order to attract a new player who may return and deposit many more times ), since the casino is essentially giving away money, in return for a commitment from the player to wager a certain minimum amount, usually a multiple of the deposit and / or bonus credited to the player's account.

* requiring non-profits to submit with their annual return copies of all fundraising materials as a way of potentially facilitating early legal actions-such as for misleading promotion, libel, trade libel or ' tortious interference '

Row-six provides measured return on investment for Individual Projects and, potentially, for the entire investment portfolio.

Another potentially good design feature of the Sd. Kfz. 251 was the large track area, with the characteristic " slack track " design with no return rollers for the upper run of track, and overlapping and interleaved main road wheels common to virtually all German halftracks of the period.

Upon return from Mexico Motherwell spent time developing his creative principle based on automatism: " what I realized was that Americans potentially could paint like angels but that there was no creative principle around, so that everybody who liked modern art was copying it.

Following a 12-year inquiry, Saville's report was made public on 15 June 2010, and contained findings of fault that could re-open the controversy, and potentially lead to criminal investigations for some soldiers involved in the killings.

Apart from testing and analyzing food products during the whole production process to ensure safety and compliance with regulatory standards, trading standards officers ( in the UK ) protect the public from any illegal use or potentially dangerous mis-use of food additives by performing random testing of food products.

Bell also used the humorous possibilities of the Cones Hotline, a means for the public to inform the authorities of potentially unnecessary traffic cones, which was part of the Citizen's Charter project established by John Major.

Quantum cryptography could potentially fulfill some of the functions of public key cryptography.

The Parentalia drew to a close on February 21 with the more somber Feralia, a public festival of sacrifices and offerings to the Manes, the potentially malevolent spirits of the dead who required propitiation.

A distinction is sometimes drawn between public and private cartels, though there is no evidence that public cartels are less harmful to the general good, and being government backed, they are much more effective and, hence, potentially harmful.

Since the 1970s, public awareness, environmental sciences, ecology, and technology have advanced to include modern focus points like ozone depletion, global climate change, acid rain, and the potentially harmful genetically modified organisms ( GMOs ).

While good government tends to be a pure public good for the mass of voters, there may be many advocacy groups that have strong incentives for lobbying the government to implement specific policies that would benefit them, potentially at the expense of the general public.

Anyone who derives utility from potentially irrational policies ( such as protectionism ) can receive private benefits while imposing the costs of such beliefs on the general public.

Overall, Wilson is seen to have managed a number of difficult political issues with considerable tactical skill, including such potentially divisive issues for his party as the role of public ownership, British membership of the European Community, and the Vietnam War, in which he officially resisted US pressure to involve Britain and send British troops.

In computer networks, pseudonyms possess varying degrees of anonymity, ranging from highly linkable public pseudonyms ( the link between the pseudonym and a human being is publicly known or easy to discover ), potentially linkable non-public pseudonyms ( the link is known to system operators but is not publicly disclosed ), and unlinkable pseudonyms ( the link is not known to system operators and cannot be determined ).

The site is frequently suggested by a member of the viewing public who knows of an unsolved archaeological mystery, or who owns property that has not been excavated and is potentially interesting.

This ability to quickly raise potentially large amounts of capital from the marketplace is a key reason many companies seek to go public.

Sometimes, VoIP systems may route emergency calls to a non-emergency phone line at the intended department ; in the United States, at least one major police department has strongly objected to this practice as potentially endangering the public.

Following public criticism that the development and deployment of this technology could potentially lead to a mass surveillance system, the IAO was defunded by Congress in 2003.

The Supreme Court rejected that claim and affirmed the District Court's denial of SLAPP relief, holding “ The District Court properly denied a motion to dismiss where the underlying claim involved an alleged breach of a settlement agreement that potentially limited the moving party ’ s rights to public participation .” The Supreme Court explained:

Even if a farmer chooses not to use sludge on their GAP certified farm, a neighbor may top dress sludge on a plat adjacent and potentially contaminate the farmers crop, sickening and / or poisoning the general public.

Taschen has helped bring this art into broader public view, by publishing these potentially controversial volumes alongside its more mainstream books of comics reprints, art photography, painting, design, fashion, advertising history, film, and architecture.

Such technologies are regularly used in sales, diplomacy, politics, religion, military training, public health, and management, and may potentially be used in any area of human-human or human-computer interaction.

For example, Gravelle and Rees: The defining characteristic of a public good is that consumption of it by one individual does not actually or potentially reduce the amount available to be consumed by another individual.

It is intentional that financial accounting uses standards that allow the public to compare firms ' performance, cost accounting functions internally to an organization and potentially with much greater flexibility.

Several days after Kristol's hiring, Times public editor Clark Hoyt called his hiring " a mistake ", due to Kristol's assertion in 2006 that the Times should potentially be prosecuted for having revealed information about the Terrorist Finance Tracking Program.

In this case the public perception is more of a spectacular failure, than a spectacular success, resulting in potentially an unfair tainting of the lean manufacturing philosophies.