portended

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Examples of portended

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

  • The reality is the situation as it exists and as it is portended in certain towns, cities and areas.

  • Unless there is a more robust, credible and fully explained regulatory impact assessment, the concern must be that eventual costs will substantially outstrip those currently portended.

  • The glassy sea, humid atmosphere, and falling barometer portended the approaching engagement between ship and her relentlessly violent foes, sea and wind.

  • Court astrologers, however, were also correct that the event portended disaster.

  • These compositions aroused the interest of the specialists who found them excellent writing which portended a brilliant future for the composer.

  • The dream had greatly disturbed him, and he now confessed to the thought that it had portended the death of one of us.

  • In retrospect, the joke is considered witty and yet eerily prescient because it portended some of the future turmoil that the artist would endure.

  • A comet appeared, provoking panic in the population, who feared it portended great disasters.

  • The fact is that the mere act of intercourse by itself is not enough to show what is portended.

  • Prodigies were transgressions in the natural, predictable order of the cosmos signs of divine anger that portended conflict and misfortune.

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