Examples of portend

• It is also not clear what these elevations in cortisol might portend for these children's futures.

• However, its moral passions and indifference to political calculations also portend conflict with partisan insurgents, who inevitably rank movement objectives below electoral imperatives.

• Segmental morphology is also more likely to portend complications and need for active intervention and therapy.

• However, setbacks of these kinds tend to cluster in the first 6 to 12 months after surgery and do not necessarily portend a bad outcome.

• Nevertheless, demographic trends portend change for the system.

• And what does it portend for the way ethics gets formulated in contemporary continental thought?

• It is important to capture in some detail the full import of this failure and the tragedy it portended.

• The transubstantiation is startling in its ambition and in the possibility for the fundamental resetting of the social hierarchy that it portends.

• Having a past shared history does not necessarily portend a common fate for us far into the future.

• And that does not portend well for the practicality of a hyperreal wager.

• In this way, tolerance is 'an index of this very capacity for mixing and of the perceived threat to a social norm that it portends' (p. 73).

• It is certainly not my belief that there is any portending difficulty in this matter, either constitutionally or voluntarily.

• This proposal as has been pointed out, portends the curtailment of education services on grounds of false economy.

• We may have very different views about what people's sympathies or political views portend.

• All that portends a continuing outgoing of these methods of civil defence.