Sentences with phrase «not harbingers»

The petunias are likely an isolated case — not harbingers of more stealthy GE flower discoveries to come, Regelbrugge says, but as genetic engineering becomes more common in the industry, seed companies may begin to track GE varieties more carefully.
That starts with recognising that the strength of Canada's resource sector is a reflection of success, not a harbinger of failure.
Isn't that the equivalent of the burial of the one talanton, and isn't it the harbinger of the burial of the church?
If that happening isn't a harbinger of doom, you don't know what the word means.
Let's hope that hold - your - breath moment is not a harbinger.
«I hope that, going forward, this lack of outreach is not a harbinger of the amount of community input the people of my borough will have in this process.»
«I hope that, going forward, this lack of outreach is not a harbinger of the amount of community input the people of my borough will have in this process,» Diaz Jr. said in a statement.
The other more or less futile hope is that science will tell us that the horror story in the Arctic and Greenland is not a harbinger of worse to come.

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That doesn't necessarily harbinger the worst for the company.
But if climate change isn't stabilized soon, the authors wrote,» [t] he large - scale loss of functionally diverse corals is a harbinger of further radical shifts in the condition and dynamics of all ecosystems, reinforcing the need for risk assessment of ecosystem collapse.»
«Business leaders can not be bystanders,» he says, adding that he's concerned that the Occupy Wall Street movement is a harbinger of social unrest.
«I don't view that as a harbinger of anything, frankly.
If the market is in full, growling - beast Kodiak mode but the economy has not worsened, there are harbingers of downturn that you should be aware of.
They need to understand that lower oil prices aren't a temporary market glitch, but rather a harbinger of what's to come.
«Whether they're a harbinger of a sea change or a coincidence, I'm not sure.
I'm not trying to be a harbinger of doom, but I don't think enough people are talking about it.
The poor consumer spending in Q1 could be a harbinger of more economic weakness, not only because the consumer is almost 70 % of the U.S. economy, but because average real personal consumption expenditures grew at a faster rate than real GDP over the last three years, 2.9 % to 2.2 %.
In my opinion, doubt is not necessarily the harbinger of Christian defeat.
We must understand that when a man considers violence the only resort left him, when he sees it, not as a remedy and the harbinger of a new day, but as at least an indictment of the old, unjust order, when he thinks of violence as a way of affirming his outraged human dignity (his pride!)
Many are convinced that this is not a coincidence, but that these eclipse clusters will turn out to be very significant harbingers of things to come.
I do not wish to be among the harbingers of doom who speak and write frequently in these days as if there were nothing good to be said.
Not only was the Winchester repeating rifle a cheap and efficient way to subdue the Indian, but its interchangeable parts were the harbinger of new ways to produce and move goods of all kinds.
These people really are harbingers of a better future in a way that aggressive atheists are not.
In their later years when Buttrick and Tillich went to Harvard, they found a different situation, one which troubled them — not simply because Harvard was different but because the times were changing and Harvard was only the harbinger of the change.
Because if that's not the case, and this is a harbinger of the tragedy to come, we're going to have some real issues.
Arsenal's 3 - 0 victory over Manchester City in last season's Community Shield didn't serve as a harbinger of success, as the Gunners were far from challenging from the title.
As we mentioned, kids not only love to collect toys, but they are harbingers of messes and stains.
Thus, harbingers of illness, do not stem from vigilance but manifest instead in dismissing the biological needs of the infant by interpreting them as manipulative or unwarranted.
The idea that the sunny weather they enjoy may be a harbinger of runaway climate change, that their beloved happy meal hamburgers are responsible for the release of dangerous methane gases and the unjust monopolization of vital water sources, and that the plastic refuse from their picnics might end up endangering the dolphins they idolize from afar — well, it's a lot to lay on a child who's still not old enough to see the latest Star Wars.
The idea that the sunny weather they enjoy may be a harbinger of runaway climate change, that their beloved happy meal hamburgers are responsible for the release of dangerous methane gases and the unjust monopolization of vital water sources, and that the plastic refuse from their picnics might end up endangering the dolphins they idolize from afar — well, it's a lot to lay on a child who's still not old enough to see the latest
And, this is the third cycle out of the last four in which Democrats lost ground — 2010 and 2014 now look like harbingers, not flukes.
In a broader sense, GDPR is a harbinger of the future, a future where voter data will not be so easily bought and sold, and one where grassroots infrastructures will need to be properly resourced in order to support large political organizations.
AG Eric Schneiderman said his office has reached a $ 40 million settlement with Harbert Management Corporation and several of its top executives over allegations that they had not paid state taxes for some of the most profitable years that Philip Falcone was managing Harbinger, which was owned by Harbert.
For Democrats, Marchione's decision to not seek re-election to her Senate seat, a district that encompasses a largely conservative area around the Capital District, could be a harbinger of a wave of retirements for Republicans.
Still, Reed doesn't think the special election is necessarily a harbinger for the GOP this fall, including in his district where seven Democrats are currently vying to unseat him this fall.
In general, democracies may not be the harbingers of progressive public spending, at least at first (war ironically appears a better predictor of increased taxes and spending), but they engage far less in arbitrary expropriation than do autocracies.
«A special election is not necessarily a harbinger of what will happen in the subsequent general election,» he said.
But the Obamagirl's real importance was as a harbinger of a new kind of politics: one in which the people's voices aren't just heard at the polls.
I am not a soothsayer, neither am I a harbinger of gloom and doom... but once again I say to you... this time with a nation full of witnesses... that your Achilles heel will destroy you!
«I am not a soothsayer, neither am I a harbinger of gloom and doom... but once again I say to you... this time with a nation full of witnesses... that your Achilles heel will destroy you!Respectfully Martin, cut the crap!
«This is a harbinger of what's to come,» says Doudna, who also did not take part in the work.
«I'm not convinced that they're a harbinger of disaster,» Miller says.
So he finds that the region's chronic water shortages may be the harbingers of cooperation, not conflict.
«It is essential that we designate the harbingers of abrupt and significant changes or, perhaps more importantly, the triggers and thresholds that could commit the planet to these changes well before their tell - tale signs appear,» says economist and IPCC author Gary Yohe of Wesleyan University in Middletown, Conn. «We can not accept the adaptive design completely without having confidence in our abilities to determine exactly what to monitor.»
Relationships that could have thrived often end up dissolving — not because the pair is mismatched or there was never any hope — but because those little warning signs weren't heeded as harbingers of the death of intimacy.
The findings suggest that poor hearing is a «harbinger of impending dementia,» says George Gates, MD, a hearing expert at the University of Washington in Seattle, who was not involved in the new study but whose own research has demonstrated a link between the two conditions.
Then there was a moment where they realized that Elvis Presley was basically the harbinger of a new genre of music — rock n» roll.
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Like it or not, Gigi Hadid has become a harbinger of fashion trends.
Interracial interactions not dating alone is a harbinger of peace as it creates a greater understanding of ethnic diversity, racial characteristics and cultures that exist on this planet.
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