0 to be a sign that something bad is likely to happen in the future:
It was a deeply superstitious country, where earthquakes were commonly believed to portend the end of dynasties.
1 to be a sign that something is likely to happen in the future:
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.
