Sentences with phrase «at portents»

Not exact matches

If the market suffers another down day, the historical portents are not good at all.

An interesting note: «The same phenomena and portents of the sudden darkness at the sixth hour, a strong earthquake, rent stones, a temple entrance broken in two, and the rising of the dead have been reported by multiple ancient writers for the death of Julius Caesar on March 15, 44 BC.»

All that was factually given to man in this life was dissociated from the work of the Creator - God, except as signs and portents of a total transformation to come in which faith would at last be vindicated.

Timothy Murphy Signs and Portents, Read from the Margin «The family will receive friends at home this evening from 7 to 9,» Oglethorpe Echo

A great many internal and external portents (political and social upheaval, moral and religious unease) have caused us all to feel, more or less confusedly, that something tremendous is at present taking place in the world.

The tightening network of economic and psychic bonds in which we live and from which we suffer, the growing compulsion to act, to produce, to think collectively which so disquiets us — what do they become, seen in this way, except the first portents of the super-organism which, woven of the threads of individual men, is preparing (theory and fact are at one on this point) not to mechanize and submerge us, but to raise us, by way of increasing complexity, to a higher awareness of our own personality?

The Armenian genocide is a haunting early portent of the puzzling century that brought the many countries of the world closer than ever before and at the same time bloodily illustrated how difficult true coexistence is.

If the ominous portents concerning the Supreme Court hold true, the fight for religious liberty will take on added urgency at the state level.

The black and white images are quick and light, but even at the book's airy beginning, they convey a mood of portent.

An interesting note, which should not be ignored: «The same phenomena and portents of the sudden darkness at the sixth hour, a strong earthquake, rent stones, a temple entrance broken in two, and the rising of the dead have been reported by multiple ancient writers for the death of Julius Caesar on March 15, 44 BC.»

We are at the beginning of revolutionary industrial changes among which the recent achievements in synthetic chemistry and the potentialities in the peaceful use of atomic energy are mere portents.

But because of living in a small apartment and small room, portents face different types of problems because of spacious cribs, so at these situations, nothing can be alternative to the space saver cribs for babies.

He advised that each student should factor himself into being part of that future by making personal efforts at growth and development nurtured through education, which he described as the most portent tool for competition in the world...

Whereas Wan (who retains a producer credit here, and makes a cameo appearance) is the sort of director who can effortlessly turn a billowing curtain or creaking floorboard into an unbearable portent of dread, Whannell rarely makes the neck hairs quiver, let alone stand at attention.

The British awards, known as BAFTAs, are considered a portent of success at Hollywood's Feb. 28 Academy Awards.

ESSA is a portent of the pivotal role technology will play in planning at all levels — and an opportunity to inject creativity into new educational models.

The resignation of a prominent board member last year because of what seems to me, at best, to have been some sort of petty ego struggle, and at worst a portent of something fundamentally wrong with the management structure, combined with the 20 % drop in the share price last year convinced me to part with my WCG shares.

It's unclear as to whether she shows people visions of possible futures or just purely nightmare scenarios created by their own minds, especially since Thor's vision seems to be a potential portent which sends him scampering back to Asgard at the end of the film, but its her powers that results in the creation of Ultron, and Iron - Man going head - to - head with the Hulk.

When his remarkable exhibition «Home and Garden» appeared at the New Museum in mid-2015, however, the darkest ramifications of the era had not yet arisen, and his show retained a jaunty, exploratory cast that was essentially neutral about the value of its portents.

What gets lost is the science, which shows that the climate is changing at a rate not seen in the past, and has dire portents for our future.

The Power Technology website notes that «As gloomy portents go, they don't come much gloomier for «clean coal» than recent developments at the Kemper County energy facility in Mississippi», which is «widely regarded to be one of the world's biggest proofs - of - concept for clean coal» and which «has failed to deliver.»