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He had no idea what the horn calls portended, what doom might

Finnegan teoriza la practica de cuerdas Carlos G.Tonda 2010

He had no idea what the horn calls portended, what doom might be about to fall.

Dragons of Spring Dawning Weis, Margaret 1985

"Here we go again," he says in the report, amid a number of charts displaying negative statistics similar to those that portended problems before the 2008 financial panic.

Goldman Takes a Dark View Susan Pulliam 2011

The Chinese had potential to break new ground but instead ended up giving the world a stupendously super-sized version of Expos past that to all appearances contravenes the very theme that portended to make this Expo special, "Better City, Better LIfe."

Bob Jacobson: Can the US Get Back the Needed Moral Authority to Host a 2020 World Expo? Bob Jacobson 2010

For a contemporary embodiment of the upheaval that this scene portended, consider Sean Combs, a hip-hop mogul and one of the most famous African Americans on the planet.

The End of White America? 2009

The Chinese had potential to break new ground but instead ended up giving the world a stupendously super-sized version of Expos past that to all appearances contravenes the very theme that portended to make this Expo special, "Better City, Better LIfe."

Bob Jacobson: Can the US Get Back the Needed Moral Authority to Host a 2020 World Expo? Bob Jacobson 2010

The Chinese had potential to break new ground but instead ended up giving the world a stupendously super-sized version of Expos past that to all appearances contravenes the very theme that portended to make this Expo special, "Better City, Better LIfe."

Bob Jacobson: Can the US Get Back the Needed Moral Authority to Host a 2020 World Expo? Bob Jacobson 2010

The Chinese had potential to break new ground but instead ended up giving the world a stupendously super-sized version of Expos past that to all appearances contravenes the very theme that portended to make this Expo special, "Better City, Better LIfe."

Bob Jacobson: Can the US Get Back the Needed Moral Authority to Host a 2020 World Expo? Bob Jacobson 2010

I think the most important thing to consider about the H-N bombings is not that they portended the potential end of the world, but that once we used them we have never used them again.

Where we won the War we started by almost losing it 2010

The Chinese had potential to break new ground but instead ended up giving the world a stupendously super-sized version of Expos past that to all appearances contravenes the very theme that portended to make this Expo special, "Better City, Better LIfe."

Bob Jacobson: Can the US Get Back the Needed Moral Authority to Host a 2020 World Expo? Bob Jacobson 2010