Why this 2,073-foot Chinese building could be an omen of economic doom
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Or will the need to cut a thousand jobs to address the budget deficit be an omen of further deterioration?
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But losing is one thing, getting trounced is another — and if Democrats can select a strong candidate and come within striking distance, it might be an omen of victories to come.
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Its fate could also be an omen of whether a national climate policy built off the Green New Deal could get off the ground, so it's worth paying attention to what's happening in Springfield.
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In the past, kestrels were killed because they were thought to take chickens and because they were considered to be an omen of death.
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Anne Neville died on 16 March 1485, probably of tuberculosis, at Westminster.Licence 2013, p. 176. The day she died, there was an eclipse, which some took to be an omen of her husband's fall from heavenly grace. She was buried in Westminster Abbey in an unmarked grave to the right of the High Altar, next to the door to the Confessor's Chapel.
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The novel centers upon the Ogata family of Kamakura, and its events are witnessed from the perspective of its aging patriarch, Shingo, a businessman close to retirement who works in Tokyo. Shingo is experiencing temporary lapses of memory, recalling strange and disturbing dreams upon waking, and hearing sounds, including the titular noise which awakens him from his sleep, "like wind, far away, but with a depth like a rumbling of the earth." Shingo takes the sound to be an omen of his impending death. Shingo observes and questions his relations with his family members, his wife Yasuko, his philandering son Shuichi, his daughter-in-law Kikuko, and his married daughter Fusako, who has left her husband and returned to her family home with her two young daughters.
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Certain types of births could lead to violence, abandonment and murder based on families superstition that a child born through such a birth could be an omen of bad luck, a user of witchcraft or demonic, among other beliefs. These types of births include multiple births where more than one child is born at the same time; the birth order and the sex of the child such as a boy born after multiple girl children or vice versa; premature births; quick births where the child comes out of the birthing canal very fast; and the infant having an unusual birth position during the labor period. Such newborns can be ostracized from society and maltreated by their family and other community members.
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Black cat with long hair In most Western cultures, black cats have typically been looked upon as a symbol of evil omens, specifically being suspected of being the familiars of witches, or actually shape-shifting witches themselves. Most of Europe considers the black cat a symbol of bad luck, particularly if one walks across the path in front of a person, which is believed to be an omen of misfortune and death. In Germany, some believe that black cats crossing a person's path from right to left, is a bad omen, but from left to right, the cat is granting favorable times. The black cat in folklore has been able to change into human shape to act as a spy or courier for witches or demons.
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