| Even for those who did not accept these apocalyptic scenarios, emancipation portended a chaotic and terrifying new world. |
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| Malaria, typhoid and other water-borne diseases are portended as mercury soars in summer. |
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| Asian markets had come under heavy selling on Monday as investors portended a calamitous fall in the U.S. markets when they reopened after a four-day suspension. |
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| That could be a sign of distress, much as haywire interbank rates portended the West's financial crisis. |
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| Yet only a dozen or so free schools were approved in the summer in 2010 in line with ministers' predictions, but fewer than the hype portended. |
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| But, the rapid growth of productive capacity in many places during the period portended a point when capital would face a problem of overaccumulation. |
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| Erasmus claimed that Morris was visibly shaken by this episode which portended difficulty in gaining acceptance of the Government's treaty terms. |
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| In the almost sixty-year history of NATO, there have been few milestones that portended major changes in the direction of the Alliance. |
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| For a time there was no word spoken, no explanation of what all this portended. |
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| The conservative predicament was embodied a year and a half ago by John McCain, whose campaign floundered on the issue of the economy as the implosion of Lehman Brothers portended a banking crisis. |
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| He dug deeper and found that HSBC's problems were concentrated in the subprime market and portended much worse to come. Others were coming to similar conclusions. |
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| For some days a fistula lacrymalis had come into my left eye, which discharged an humour, when pressed, that portended danger. |
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| Just as Persephone reaching for the flower heralded her doom, the youth Narcissus gazing at his own reflection portended his own death. |
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| Feminists of the era did not take kindly to Ericsson and his Marlboro Man veneer. To them, the lab cowboy and his sperminator portended a dystopia of mass-produced boys. |
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