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There is a widespread testimony that this ominous fact is due to inherent biological defects in the crowded life of cities.

There are also ominous signs of what economist John Kenneth Galbraith called the "bezzle" beginning to appear above the surface.

I was happy to hear from her, though her tone was a little ominous.

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I even got an ominous, anonymous voice mail from someone with a strong drawl cautioning, 'Be careful with what you say. '

As if Tuesday's sell-off on the stock market weren't enough to be worried about, now comes some more ominous news.

On his way, he'll cross 36 lands, each packed with clever puzzles, conniving foes, ominous obstacles.

Yet as ominous as the drumbeat out of Europe is, there is some reason to believe the dancing will go on for a bit.

An ominous portrait emerged from his calm prose of a generation that hates to pay for entertainment and communications.

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But if they are at the bottom of the scale, the outlook for the planet is likely to be much more ominous.

Throughout much of the 20th century, the Soviet Union cast an ominous shadow over the world. It was the U. S. 's dark twin.

And as the New York Times has noted, some economists and traders have begun to refer to London by an ominous moniker: Reykjavik-on-Thames.

The largest and most ominous challenge facing the company, though, comes from its own Silicon Valley backyard.

Across the street a more ominous sign of the mortgage foreclosure crisis is taped to the wrought iron gate of a stucco house on Cortino Way.

Furthermore, I fear that, should China suffer an economic reversal, it might have especially ominous implications for Japan.

Some Prison Break fans are alarmed by this development, worrying that the hiatus might have a more ominous meaning behind it.

Our room was large and warm, with a Bechstein grand and a theatrical gilt mirror that hung at an ominous 45-degree angle over the bed.

One ominous sign is the withdrawal of independent monitors who would be able to observe and protect voters at the polls.

More ominous still, the cards are part of a larger project to blanket Chinese cities with state-of-the-art surveillance technologies.

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It is ominous that you think the answer is to clone yourself: there is a high chance that two of you will be worse than one.

Caught up in their game, Miranda and Ferdinand also symbolize something ominous about Prospero's power.

There was a Sabbath lull in the air, which, in a settlement unused to Sabbath influences, looked ominous.

That was ominous : the Maoists are believed, in the absence of any reliable opinion poll, to be widely detested.

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AFTER a year in office, Israel's right-wing-cum-religious coalition is feeling an ominous tremor of internal discord.

"As long as he was on the run he represented a very ominous danger to the Libyan people, " Saad told CNN.

I saw him smile to himself--grin rather--and lapse into ominous musing whenever Mrs Linton had occasion to be absent from the apartment.

There has long been a sense that slowing down is an ominous sign of aging, and not just in people.

But, for every bit of encouraging news of one sort, recent weeks have also brought ominous news of another.

Even more ominous was the list emerging from "Ten Books to Read before You Die, " a feature that appeared on America Online not long ago.

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The dark line of the forest is suddenly more ominous.

Being afraid of being blown back and taking action prior to putting yourself in such an ominous position is the best prevention.

Brezhnev, he says, exuded "a sense of ominous danger emerging out of China" .

But a postoperative patient is facing uncertainty and disruption of his normal life. The pain is more ominous.

Of that ominous afternoon on the esplanade (a final warning? ), there remains no memory other than this.

The targeting of young women in particular is highlighted as one of the "most ominous potential developments of the epidemic's growth" .

I said to the old monk with smile that I am afraid the crow's cry may be ominous for us.

Yet even that ominous sign wasn't enough to turn the group bearish.

In an ominous sign for the president, new protests have already been reported in Deraa and Latakia.

As Sargeras' ominous shadow drew ever closer to the surface, Malfurion and his allies rushed to attack.

It seems ominous to us now as a precursor to movements that would more effectively exploit such anger and such dreams.

So far, there are more questions than answers, but General Younes's death is an ominous precedent.

Ominous items of news of varied credibility now began to come in .

Indeed, the ominous "chicken-or-the-egg" question can only be answered by carefully controlled clinical intervention trials.

Yet a more ominous pall hangs over the industry, and the firms they have bought, than the prospect of investors losing some of their money.

It may turn out to be the most ominous struggle of them all.

Other analysts said the lack of buying interest from long-term investors such as central banks was particularly ominous.

The Lithuanians see all this as an ominous threat to their own security.

Ever since Viktor Orban's Fidesz party won two-thirds of the parliamentary seats in April's general election, the signals have been ominous.

Gives people a sense of ominous silence, I even think that a writer would not be jumping into the quagmire of the unfinished bar.

The more immediate worry is in emerging markets where the leap in Chinese prices is an ominous sign.

Recent warnings from miners Rio Tinto and Alpha Natural Resources of a reversal of orders and tepid US petrol demand are ominous.

SeaSea-sawing between partly good and faintly ominous, the news for the next four weeks was never distinct.

We face a fuel crisis, a food crisis, a severe financial crisis, and a climate that has begun to change in ominous ways.

"The bottom line is that looking slightly older than one's actual age is not necessarily an ominous health sign, " Hwang said.

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The timing might have seemed ominous.

There were ominous signs of lawlessness Saturday in places where the police had abandoned their posts.

There was an ominous silence when I asked whether my contract was going to be renewed.

Their music is an ominous reflection of the twentieth century's last European fratricidal war of ideologies.

Or was there, as it rather seemed, a circle of ominous shadow moving along with his deformity, whichever way he turned himself?

Demographic and epidemiological transitions now combine with nutritional and behavioural transitions to create ominous new trends.

More significantly, the ominous warnings feed on a popular misconception of how the mind works.

Drug resistance costs vast amounts of money, and affects vast numbers of lives. The trends are clear and ominous.

But Pakistan Army Spokesman Athar Abbas tells VOA that the troop movements are not what he called an "ominous buildup. "

Now it was ominous. It meant, he knew, that nothing could be changed.

The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff implied China had a more ominous aim.

Well, Andrea, the AP is reporting the ominous music is being caused by an intrepid young journalist. . .

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Some smaller changes are arguably more ominous, like a recent drop in the southern seas' ability to absorb carbon.

And yet credit continues to tighten, while the signals from banks are ominous.

There was the ominous aphorism, repeated again and again, that no man can profit but by the loss of others.

The change of heart is an ominous portent for the decades-long process of increasing European economic integration.

This would be ominous for humanity, and is what makes the silence eerie.

If Congress cannot agree on a spending authorisation by midnight on Friday then an ominous-sounding US government shutdown will follow.

He crept toward her with a light in his eye that was ominous.

Sister Mary Joseph nodule is a metastatic lesion of the umbilicus, which is an uncommon phenomenon that carries an ominous prognosis.

There had been sudden ominous showers in the night, with rain like handfuls of gravel flung on the roof.

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An ominous wind is blowing. Is it finally here? Has time come for an old tree like me to fall down?

Comparison with Japan, whose aging profile is more advanced than those of western economies, packs a more ominous warning.

She decorated with spring flower lying on the carpet, and the background is red and the logo, breathing in a ominous atmosphere.

Several other martyrs that were buried by their families because of the long-standing, the burial place of ominous .

Another current of gloom, slower-moving than the debt crisis but just as ominous, is also in full flow.

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When an ominous plan is discovered, American Soldiers demonstrate courage and strength like no other in this ground-breaking graphic novel.

But if art offers an ominous foretelling of the experiment, the scientists running it are confident that real life will be different.

That is ominous for a country where power has not been transferred peacefully since independence.

Trends are ominous and strongly influenced by the globalization of unhealthy lifestyles.

But provincial growth targets become more ominous for Beijing when placed next to local leaders' plans for investment spending.

That makes it all the more ominous that banks are expecting to restrict credit still further.

Although that seemed ominous for bipartisan co-operation, Republican senators were on course to vote for the deal.

An immense chimney, relic of a disused mill, reared up, shadowy and ominous.

Professor Hacker discussed the ominous trend lines in an interview.

But we would also note further ominous forward looking developments that suggest the current risk rebound will likely fail soon.

Although these possible manifestations sound ominous , don't panic because there will be still other types of news that could come up.

Extinction looms like a certain ominous robotic fin.

The emergence of Chinese export competition as a key stumbling block is ominous for the future of the trade round.

I am deeply concerned that ominous clouds have begun to gather over the two superpowers.

After a verse poking fun at a recent alcohol-fueled car accident Rossington had, Van Zant starts pouring on the ominous.

Observers are not surprised that business is flourishing despite the ominous political situation.

Even so there remained an ominous gap to the westward which for the time being could not be bridged.

Neither Labour nor the Conservatives have emitted any particularly ominous signals along those lines.

The guide had replied, "To make our FBI headquarters seem less secret, less closed in, less ominous and forbidding. "

They said their captors also lined them up against a wall one night to the ominous sound of weapons cocking behind their heads.

But he particularly recalled her words of caution, which in retrospect seemed especially ominous.

He put his ear close to the ring, turned a gear-wheel a notch and heard the faint, ominous click.

The collapse of the Doha round of trade negotiations at the WTO in 2008 sets an ominous precedent for the coming year.

No man moved, awaiting the next ominous question.

Like other ancient civilisations , China has traditionally seen eclipses as ominous.

To consumers used to enjoying a free ride, this sounds ominous.

The movie's ominous slogan: "Find out the truth. "

That must start with the economy, which despite a good recent run still exhibits ominous weaknesses.

Recent developments in the Israeli Knesset portend a more ominous future.

Retired military veteran Bill Watkins sees something ominous in the PLA producing a game with American targets.

The allegations, raised this week by a British tabloid, are unproven, but ominous.

It's an ominous development for New Jersey, home totens of thousands of pharmaceutical workers.

Every austral spring, an ominous "hole" appears in stratospheric ozone over Antarctica.

And anyway, governments won't focus on remote possibilities, however ominous in expected-cost terms.

In a nation with the tragic history of autocracy of Russia, it is a sad and ominous development.

In the meantime China's growth will blast onward, a roaring fire that throws off green sparks but burns with ominous heat.

One ominous sign, however, is that the Mexican cases are said to be mainly young adults, a hallmark of pandemic flu.

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Even from a distance, the device appeared ominous - two black tubes on a metal handle.

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This is a real danger today. The "Buy American" provisions in President Barack Obama's fiscal boost are an ominous sign.

Another is the reported fall in the number of bonds in short supply after Mr Clouse's ominous speech. Coincidence?

In an ominous sign, Nokia said on Thursday that its smartphone sales fell 32 percent in the quarter.

To hackers the recent contraction in civil liberties seems especially ominous.

Mr. Gerth: The implications of Chinese consumerism are wide-ranging, interconnected, and include both the positive and the ominous.

He feels a little ominous. He calls her time and again and is told that the mobile has been turned off.

And that's what the movie is about: atmosphere, ominous portents, the erosion of Teddy's confidence and even his identity.

In hill country from Iowa to the Scottish Highlands, sky-gazers have reported some strange, ominous-looking clouds of late.

You're hiking through the Rockies one day when you hear a low, ominous rumble. Landslide!

If the Celtics can still improve, that would be ominous news for the Sixers (5-9).

This is, to say the least, an ominous sign.

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The "Buy American" provisions in President Barack Obama's fiscal boost are an ominous sign.

Reimu: W-Wait a second. I just had an ominous premonition. . .

At the height of the financial crisis 18 months ago, the political fallout looked ominous.

The pace and severity of financial crises have taken an ominous turn for the worse.

Or maybe something more ominous is affecting the aristocratic psyche.

In one ominous sign, borrowers are already falling behind on the modified loans at a high rate.

The fifth problem, though, is probably most ominous: the plunge in rental yields.

For anyone who has studied monetary theory, those numbers sound ominous.

If this were a movie, ominous music would begin here.

The lack of pace of cap-and-trade in the Senate is an ominous sign.

Even more ominous is the emergence of extensively drug-resistant TB, or XDR-TB, which has now been reported in 55 countries.

A message from one's boss with the ominous subject line: "your Monday column" was something I needed to keep.

It is equally suited to bringing back the joy of '80s dance parties or expressing the ominous foreboding of inevitable nuclear disaster.

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Matters look even more ominous in the poorer nations of Central and Eastern Europe.

Other sourcers of Asian toys, clothes and basic household products tell similarly ominous tales.

The old unpainted shack also had a big canoe on the roof and an ominous name, the Whitewater Tavern.

You're hiking through the Rockies one day when you hear a low, ominous rumble.

However ominous, such data are hardly an engraved invitation to sell.

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He should start by cajoling Congress into an agreement to tackle America's ominous fiscal arithmetic.

But in an ominous sign for them, the new Congress is already shifting its emphasis.

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If you are just joining us, we are continuing our coverage of the ominous music that is sending panic across the nation.

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Additional neurologic complaints, such as seizure, confusion, weakness, or sensory changes, may occur late and are ominous.

Faced with ominous long-term problems, for instance in electricity supply, the government has frozen.

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And, as that ominous latter remark from Mr. Guan suggests, who knows, Dagong's finger may already be hovering over the 'junk' button.

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4 children. 6 grandchildren. All under one roof. Their future, he believes, looks ominous.

In every state, the 55-to-64 age group has a higher rate of obesity than people over 65, an ominous sign for Medicare.

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After Ms Mulyani resigned, Mr Bakrie took an ominous role in Mr Yudhoyono's government.

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This is an ominous trend. It is historically unprecedented, and it is certain to continue.

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That is an ominous sign in the unforgiving Middle East.

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This is ominous news for the more than 50, 000 property developers in China who have made a killing in the last decade.

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That is the good news: the outlook for the longer term is more ominous.

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Delayed or missed diagnosis usually brings ominous outcomes, not only to the patient but also the cohabitants.

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This is an ominous sign because there are no fair trials of government critics in China.

I have an ominous pain in the chest .

Man United, on the other hand, were looking ominous.

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Or is it an ominous omen?

Wu Sun-fu's face darkened at these ominous words, and an overpowering sense of foreboding clutched at his heart like a steel claw

Shortly after its return, Hong Kong was struck by the Asian financial crisis and some ominous turns of events in the global economy.

Oceanographers reported late last year the ominous news that one element of that family of currents has slowed 30% since 1992.

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I'm even less aware of the connotations and messages they offer to a Chinese viewer. I'm left with ominous conjectures;

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