portent

He feared this portent and tried to banish it from his mind, mollify it erase it-but it kept returning.

His departure is widely seen as a portent of a more active industrial policy by the government of the country's president, Dilma Rousseff.

Gnome children are born with gem like eyes. Many believe this to be a great portent, but divinations are silent.

The Standard & Poor's downgrade of United States debt over the summer is a portent of what could lie ahead.

An apparition of a living person that appears as a portent just before that person's death.

For many years a dangerous change has been taking place in your stratosphere that has a deadly portent for all earthly life.

That is probably the nearest thing to a real water war being fought today, and may perhaps be a portent of others to come.

And there will be more of this. In a terrible, terrible way this is a portent of things to come and a warning.

"So these changes are only a minor portent of what is likely to come, especially if we continue on our carbon-profligate pathway. "

Historically, January often augurs how the rest of the year will go, although this is hardly a perfect portent.

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

Many saw this break with tradition as portent of a bad reign[citation needed].

Body has no falling flop of portent.

The sublime may be dangerous, but it is not inauspicious or a portent of good or evil.

Thus, the full moon is not dangerous in itself but is instead a portent of the darkness to come.

Behind the black portent of the new atomic age lies a hope which, seized upon with faith, can work our salvation.

Even if a slowdown is happening, however, it is less a portent of a double dip than confirmation that the recovery will be a long slog.

From portent to eruption, financial crisis is a process from quantitative change to qualitative change.

Third and we believe that this is equal in portent to the actual discovery, there is the storehouse itself.

Tencent's Riot Games acquisition announced in February is a portent of more to come.

There came a Saturday morning ugly with the portent of storm .

But did your reverence hear of the portent that was seen last night?

But January's rise in the claimant count is a worrying portent.

I see it as a portent of things to come.

The portent wound in corridors of shells.

I have become like a portent to many, but you are my strong refuge.

An evil omen; a portent.

His last outing at the club, just weeks before the sex scandal broke last year, was almost a portent of things to come.

One encouraging portent is that more people are using the railway network.

Miami gives off the same vibrations, the same portent of disaster, but with a difference(James Atlas)

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Burning was the sunset like a portent of doom

Then wIll I show sIgn after sIgn and portent after portent In the land of Egypt

Portent and characteristic of a conflict

A Brief Talk on Portent and Diagnosis of Common Vibration Trouble for Fan

Attention to Trouble Portent of Vehicular Circuitry

A portent of tomorrow's world