Taken together, all these facts foretell a jittery European excursion.
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If only it were that easy to foretell economic contraction.
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One black swan does not foretell a flock of black swans.
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These foretell a future where books are artifacts, preserved and archaic.
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Last, but not least, purple sprinkles foretell magic, wonder, and enchantment.
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They foretell behaviors and conditions that could be stigmatizing or harmful.
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Certain planetary placements warn of misfortune while others foretell of good luck.
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Their experiences may foretell what's to come for these Central American arrivals.
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A tumble in shipping doesn't always foretell a recession for everyone else.
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A tumble in trucking doesn't always foretell a recession for everyone else.
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I'm no market guru, so I can't foretell whether these will persist.
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Primary results fail to foretell those in the general election quite regularly.
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"There is no reason to believe that blood moons foretell doom," said Massey.
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Especially that part about the prophecies that foretell the end of the world.
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However, a tumble in shipping doesn't always foretell a recession for everyone else.
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A tumble in trucking doesn&apost always foretell a recession for everyone else.
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Could push-ups foretell the future and the state of a person's heart?
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However, she noted that the indicators she uses to foretell recessions have improved lately.
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In fact, certain archaeologists argue that the Lascaux Cave Paintings foretell such a burrito.
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The deals likely foretell future investments by Northwestern, an insurer and financial services provider.
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Still the longterm, Earth-shattering war that these shelters foretell has yet to arrive.
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He's also a gastronome with special powers allowing him to foretell future food trends.
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It could also foretell his appeal in the populous Northeastern states in later contests.
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Both have been handled poorly by the Obama Administration and may foretell of future troubles.
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Where new moons foretell of your potential to change, eclipses often signal momentous shifts beyond yourself.
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But it is not the kind of radical disruption that fintech's more ardent evangelists often foretell.
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The mission could foretell a future of spacecraft bringing more CubeSats with them in the future.
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Like consumer confidence, if business sentiment is low, it can also foretell a slowdown to come.
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That could foretell some bleak numbers for 5G sales, as early units routinely run around $1,200.
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The smaller maximum ice footprint this year doesn't necessarily foretell a record low this summer, researchers say.
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Some say it explains what will happen to the Stark children, and may even foretell who dies.
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Meanwhile, real things are happening—cabinet appointments that foretell massive shifts in American public policy, for instance.
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I'll indulge in one look backwards to 2017, which may foretell a future of sorts for some.
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Andujar, 56, already known more for his bat than his glove, could foretell what this all meant.
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That has led to speculation the tragedy could foretell major changes for New Zealand's thrillseeker tourism economy.
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That has led to speculation the tragedy could foretell major changes for New Zealand'sthrill seeker tourism economy.
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That has led to speculation the tragedy could foretell major changes for New Zealand's thrillseeker tourism economy.
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But down Januaries in 2009, 2010 and 2014 did not produce negative years, though they did foretell corrections.
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Today's AirPods Pro announcement is more than minor, but it could foretell other stuff like the above AirTags.
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But Brown searched for any clues that might foretell where the woeful Sixers (13-72) would be picking.
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This gradual shift in stance represents the Monetary Policy Committee's efforts to foretell and communicate a forthcoming hike.
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It's not often that you can foretell success or failure clearly at the beginning of a negotiation process.
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What do you think the election results could foretell about the French political party called the National Front?
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In 2013, however, there was nothing to foretell the dominance of Mercedes that would begin the following season.
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The film begins with Peter (Michael Peña), an engineer who suffers nightmares that seem to foretell an apocalypse.
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Lucky for the couple, there are a few other numbers that foretell of other, happier themes in their marriage.
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It could foretell whether the two powers are destined to enter a new era of Cold War-like confrontation.
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But the situation on Thursday night could foretell challenges around the globe as officials scramble to manage the outbreak.
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People have used clouds this way for millennia, developing rules and rhymes about what they foretell about future weather.
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A theoretical physics paper recently came out in the journal Physical Review D that really did foretell the universe's end.
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Also on "Squawk Box," UBS portfolio manager Alan Rechtschaffen said the low-interest environment could foretell a positive stock market.
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That said, I am intrigued by two books that, if true, foretell a challenging road ahead for the United States.
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Eliason, a former assistant U.S. attorney, also said reports that the probe is criminal do not necessarily foretell criminal charges.
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And Mehrotra told Business Insider that the current struggles in trucking and manufacturing might not foretell a 2008-level collapse.
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It would in many ways foretell a strategy that worked well for him decades later when he ran for president.
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In late 2014, the market was alive with chatter about the dreaded Hindenburg Omen which was supposed to foretell a collapse.
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I was tired of the anxiety of waiting, tired of merely trying to foretell what fate had in store for me.
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You can foretell everything from the calibration of the craftsmanship to the heft of the cast, and "The Post" inarguably delivers.
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Mattis might be intent on keeping a tight grip on his current job, but Trump's remarks still foretell an eventual departure.
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KOMO's experience under Sinclair could foretell the kinds of challenges the company would face with its news staffs in bigger cities.
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" The analyst said a roughly 20% increase in spot grain prices "foretell an H2 cost headwind to offset recent energy & freight tailwinds.
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Did the lingerie set he bought, which was two sizes too small, foretell of him ditching me for a size zero model?
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Researchers say that engaging in illicit behavior as a teenager may point to the success of entrepreneurs, and also foretell their undoing.
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Our correspondent traveled across the United Kingdom to understand what the region's political realignment may foretell about the future of the country.
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What is eerie about the preoccupations and fury of Thalasinos is how, in retrospect, they foretell the terrible end of his life.
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But people close to the former secretary of state stress the speech doesn't foretell a more forceful jump back into the political fray.
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Here's what to look at: Sometimes, poor readings by such yardsticks foretell potentially terminal corporate illness — the erosion of the corporate life cycle.
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Rather, it's that the moon was in Taurus when you were married, which could foretell a romantic, even sentimental undercurrent in your union.
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Although you can't foretell the future, what would cause The Times to abandon its printed form, especially outside the New York City area?
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"The attitude taken by Albert II yesterday does not foretell the opening of a dialogue between his daughter and him," Mr. Uyttendaele said.
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Uncertainty about inflation and the aggressiveness of monetary policy has already triggered volatility in financial markets and may foretell of what's to come.
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They allow you to 'project' the future, which is probably more valid than some blogger using their zeitgeist-prediction skills to foretell the future.
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It is too early to foretell what might happen, of course; the arc of history does not bend toward peace on the Korean Peninsula.
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Australia just had a bad flu season, which may foretell a bad one is on its way to the U.S., public health experts said.
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Still, the lack of high turnout in 27 compared to a similarly long primary in 2008 did foretell problems for Democrats in the fall.
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"What the Stars Foretell for the New Princess" was so popular—and such a terrific distraction—that the paper made it a regular feature.
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Pompeo acknowledged he disagreed with Bolton on many points but downplayed talk his resignation could foretell a softening of the administration's policy toward Iran.
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The results of balloting in California, Oklahoma and Nebraska as well as the election of Donald Trump seem to foretell a comeback of capital punishment.
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It requires little imagination to foretell the fate of the current occupants of those neighborhoods, or "fringes": where artists pioneer, original residents seem to disappear.
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Low energy prices are good for many industries and consumers, but investors have become anxious that they foretell a big slowdown in the global economy.
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Kirk agreed that this kind of anecdotal evidence could foretell a bigger benefit in the future if and when ridesharing becomes an even more popular practice.
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Mr. Hernandez seemed to foretell his fate in the interview last week, though he may not have known just how many agencies were tracking his movements.
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From the back of bubble-gum cards, it was hard to foretell that outfielders Aaron Hicks and Aaron Judge would be hitting like another Aaron — Hank.
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Julia has an unusual ability to view tragedies from other people's eyes and foretell disasters, but she's powerless to prevent herself and Theo from being seized.
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What's more: Movies of this size are almost impossible to foretell, and they do it so marketing teams can adjust, not to give a definitive prediction.
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However, another moment occurred during "The Spoils Of War" that may foretell even bigger consequences, and it was between Daenerys (Emilia Clarke) and Jon Snow (Kit Harington).
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With President Donald Trump's approval ratings tumbling, according to most surveys, a few special elections could foretell what type of fate he'll face during next year's midterms.
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Even if wage growth began to outpace inflation and productivity, Mr. Powell said it still might not foretell faster inflation, pointing to the example of the 1990s.
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Steyer's performance could also foretell issues for Bloomberg, the former New York mayor who has spent nearly half a billion dollars on television, digital and radio advertising.
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Like why we have them (won't spoil this, but it seems pretty fantastical), why teenagers leave more prints than adults, and what predilections for awful diseases they foretell.
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But with a crowded field and with traditional polling in tatters, that calculation calls for a hefty dose of humility about anyone's ability to foretell what voters want.
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But the drop suggests that Facebook usage has reached a saturation point in its first and most lucrative market, and could foretell similar usage drops around the world.
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If the Labour Party's election night goes as disastrously as early exit polls foretell, the Democratic Party may see a cautionary tale for the US 2020 presidential race.
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Last week's electoral results are a reminder that the death penalty continues to have powerful populist and symbolic appeal, but it does not foretell a comeback for capital punishment.
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They think these Rossby waves could be used to foretell coming sunspots and increasing solar activity levels, which could lead to an uptick in space weather here on Earth.
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Much of its mysteries were teased in eye-popping concept art, a kaleidoscope of psychedelic fantasy landscapes that foretell a sequel taking a hard turn for the super-weird.
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And this year, several polls failed to foretell that a majority of British voters, including unlikely voters, would support "Brexit" and force Great Britain's exit from the European Union.
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For those willing to undergo IVF, and with the money to pay for it, it may also be possible to SNP-profile an embryo and thus foretell its future.
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" Hedging on Georgia race: "Historically, special elections don't generally foretell the outcome of races multiple years down the road... This is a district the President won by one point.
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For the machine learning approach, this presents a seeming paradox: The biggest earthquakes, the ones that seismologists would most like to be able to foretell, are also the rarest.
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Two years ago, when oil cost more than $20083 per barrel, who could foretell how low its price would fall and how much that would punish markets around the globe?
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With the major stock indexes at record highs, Wall Street is increasingly concerned about the loss of a powerful buying source that may foretell the end of the bull run.
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In Angola, political parties are allowed to observe the elections by posting party members at every polling station and by assimilating results, the parties attempt to foretell the election outcome.
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If you pick the wrong upgrades, you can trap yourself without any way to progress except leaving the game running for days: hardly the runaway exponential growth the Singularitarians foretell.
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Since that may foretell a serious outbreak on its way in the United States, public health experts now are urging Americans to get their flu shots as soon as possible.
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Mr. Trump also said that Wall Street "got away with murder" and that he would not let companies off the hook, which may foretell a tough stance on business crimes.
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The days, hours and minutes leading up to him killing Robert Godwin, and posting the video of the execution on Facebook, foretell an act of violence that was far from random.
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Thus, when there's a large trade in VIX options or futures, it expresses either the fear or confidence of a sophisticated investment manager and can foretell future movements in the markets.
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Jefferies is often viewed as a barometer of Wall Street, as its fiscal quarters end a month before its rivals', so its earnings reports tend to foretell trends for the industry.
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And they can foretell how their copy will end up: folded to the crossword puzzle, decorated with various stains, missing a recipe or a travel tip, ready to return unto pulp.
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The success of the mission relies heavily on a "golden ear" (Francois Civil) whose job is to listen closely to sonar to determine the specific pings that might foretell their doom.
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In the past, Mr. Kim has visited Mount Baekdu before making major decisions, giving rise to speculation that this latest trek could foretell a shift in policy toward the United States.
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If you're the kind of person who wants to know the other side of the story, here's a way to interpret some interview clues that could foretell a dismal future job experience.
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Imbolc is a time for weather divination— whether or not the serpents and badgers came out of their dens would foretell whether or not there would be an early spring (sound familiar)?
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Along the way, says Porter Anderson, editor of Publishing Perspectives, an online trade journal, it has also tried to solve an age-old problem in the publishing business: how to foretell hits.
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Rights groups also said that the crackdown on women's rights campaigns, long seen as one of the activist spheres more tolerated by Saudi authorities, could foretell the end of Saudi civil society.
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It could foretell whether these two giants — one an established but anxious superpower, the other an ambitious, impatient rising power — are destined to enter a new era of Cold War-like confrontation.
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"We cannot foretell market conditions in the period 2021 to 2027, however, we are keen to put in place a more robust and smoothened cash flow in our debt sustainability strategy," Mwanakatwe said.
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Why it matters: Because it powers the vast majority of the world's high-end smartphones, whatever features Qualcomm puts into its Snapdragon chips foretell what the next crop of flagship devices will provide.
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He hoped salesmen would read "the section of our book that will certainly be the most controversial with historians"—the part that claimed to foretell the tastes of an emerging generation of consumers.
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Georgia's Sixth Congressional District, however, is different: an affluent, educated cluster of suburbs that barely went for Mr. Trump in November and could foretell the hazards in other suburban battleground contests in 2018.
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Emergency managers are concerned that the spate of July deaths could foretell a dangerous summer fire season; in 2017, 12 California firefighters died on the job, seven of them between June and December.
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With Kavanaugh's confirmation to the Supreme Court marking its first anniversary, however, feminists and activists wonder about the limits of believing women, and what those limits might foretell for the next chapter of #MeToo.
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Thursday afternoon's meeting will likely foretell a difficult two days for Trump, who is coming off a near euphoric visit to Poland, where the President was showered with praise from the conservative Polish government.
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It's great that he's a king without ego or desire, but I question how useful his ability to foretell the future is when he so clearly doesn't act on it, except in the broadest cases.
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In fact, although everyone would like to know where the current gyrations will take us, the unpleasant truth is that there is simply no reliable way to foretell the short-term path of the market.
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Then again, along with excellent court vision, Ntilikina is 6-5 with long limbs that foretell an ability for the Knicks to finally address a ruinous lack of defensive pressure at the point of attack.
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The first autumn rains in Ahvaz, the provincial capital of Khuzestan in southwest Iran, foretell imminent dust storms—endless days of dust choking the city streets, leaving a film of yellow on cars and houses.
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The first autumn rains in Ahvaz, the provincial capital of Khuzestan in southwest Iran, foretell imminent dust storms—endless days of dust choking the city streets, leaving a film of yellow on cars and houses.
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But those views did not nearly foretell the painful pace and degree of decline of recent weeks, and were presented in the context of a bull market trend that still deserved the benefit of the doubt.
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It is impossible to predict where these trend lines lead, not because they are in doubt but because they foretell such extreme changes in the European order that their consequences vary too widely to pin down.
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"Clashes of that sort have forever been with us – and will forever continue," he said, adding that earlier generations were unable to foretell how society would evolve and adapt—and raise the standard of living for everyone.
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Deidre Duncan, a partner at Hunton & Williams who represents a number of pipeline companies, said the ruling could foretell "significant" changes to regulators' permitting duties, forcing regulators to look more broadly at proposed projects before approving them.
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Now and then, we hear people on TV predicting apocalypse, but, where Tarkovsky, in " The Sacrifice " (1986), hinted at nuclear catastrophe, Zvyagintsev seems to foretell a less fiery climax: a gradual eating away of our human skills.
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Maybe that's because there are few ways to avoid instilling the event with forced significance: The first time for anything often feels like a big deal, as if it will foretell success in all encounters that follow.
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The results could foretell stronger-than-expected public opposition to Trump's plans to boost energy development by slashing environmental regulations, an agenda shared by some of his top Cabinet picks slated for Senate confirmation hearings later this week.
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The Cuban vice minister of the economy and planning ministry reportedly said in February 53 that 84 percent of the country's food was imported—not terribly encouraging, if we are looking at Cuba to foretell our agricultural future.
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Anyone "pretending to forecast or foretell the future of another by cards, palmreading or any other scheme, practice or device" can be found guilty of a misdemeanor and fined up to $500, or even serve time in jail.
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With North America's smart home market expected to grow from $12 billion to $753 billion in yearly revenues between 2017 and 2022, according to market research firm Berg Insight, this experiment could foretell the future of home design.
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The latest: Australia's flu season — which can provide an indication, but does not necessarily foretell the severity of the U.S. season — started early and is considered to be one of the worst influenza seasons the country has seen.
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Similarly, Yoruba followers of Ifa consult a priest known as a babalawo, who uses an opele chain and palm nuts in a process known as divination, in which they attempt to foretell future events or discover hidden truths supernaturally.
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The decision could foretell trouble for other Chinese deals under review by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, a multiagency group that examines takeovers of American companies by foreign buyers and makes recommendations to the president.
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"I can't foretell the future but I don't believe that the act of leaving the European Union would make our economic position worse, I think it would make it better," he said in an interview with the same newspaper.
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For a band like this, lyrics are crucial, and Vile Creature's are delivered in a menacing hodgepodge; guest vocalist Lauren Minnes' sweet, pure lines skitter and sway atop KW's and Vic's strangled howls and decayed growls that foretell darkness and reckoning.
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The images foretell an equally smoldering, emotionally (and physically bare) music video coming our way in the near future that's sure to instantly put everyone in a sultry mood, or at least inspire them to strip down to their underpinnings.
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Gillian Metzger, a professor at Columbia Law School, has written that the case is "troubling" because it could foretell how the court under Chief Justice John Roberts, with a fortified conservative majority, may wage a constitutional attack on the administrative state.
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"These results foretell good development this year and back up our geographical diversification, the expansion and consolidation of our businesses, flexibility in our operations and the constant search for operational excellence," Cementos Argos President Juan Esteban Calle said in a statement.
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The results of Tuesday's election may foretell what lies ahead for Republicans as they approach the 2020 election — which includes not only a presidential election, but races for 35 US Senate seats and all members of the House of Representatives.
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Then a demented priest tries to dig him up, and our protagonist, who works in a family-run power plant (odd enough in itself), Tasers him and also Tasers others, including a little kid who attracts crows and can foretell death.
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The service will be exclusively targeted at Fitbit users at launch, but Park says the plan is to move toward a more platform-agnostic model going forward, a move that could foretell a further move away from a hardware-revenue model.
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More practically speaking, the day's weather is thought to foretell conditions for the rest of the summer, similar to the way Groundhog Day predicts the arrival of spring in the U.S. Above, a hiker on Herzogstand Mountain in southern Germany.
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The tiny footprint of the program could foretell difficulties in other, related prevention programs targeting conditions like mold abatement or job training — an area of intense policy interest, as health care focuses on social ills, like substandard housing, that sap health.
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For instance, the authors spend considerable time on the dangers of Trump's Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity, which was formed to prove that Trump actually won the popular vote and seemed to foretell new, widespread efforts to disenfranchise voters of color.
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By using executive power in the opposite manner to which it was used by his predecessors, both Democrat and Republican, President Trump is changing the course of history by setting us on a new path, one whose costs are impossible to foretell.
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The dossier's portrait of a cooperative campaign also has been bolstered by developments it did not specifically foretell: Legal cases and authoritative reporting have exposed Trump's son Donald Jr. and another aide as receptive to Russian overtures to supply dirt on Clinton.
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As presented in its world premiere in the first batch of one-acts, "Pinter One" was hysterically funny but shockingly real — a spot-on depiction by a playwright who seemed to foretell the rise of a geographically challenged loose cannon of a president.
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That the area continues to split between Republicans on the local level but Democrats on the national could foretell of the potential of a heretofore untapped voting bloc, and a shift to come as political parties work harder to attract these voters and galvanize participation.
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God, history, fate, desire and loss are all woven through "Mystery of Love", as they are through so many Sufjan Stevens songs and so it is the perfect soundtrack to this film and to this moment, a song to celebrate beauty and to foretell loss.
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From the surprise nominations that foretell an upset, to the last minute surges that see the most unlikely of films, um, crash into a Best Picture win, Nomineering tells the story from the beginning of the year all the way until the ceremony itself.
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The other reading, however, is that the Democratic establishment's preference for Clinton wasn't inevitable — it emerged from strategic choices that both Sanders and Clinton made; choices that helped and hurt them in different ways, and that foretell the kind of president each would be.
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" Mr. Spencer, who held a much-discussed conference in Washington in November, produced a video last year in which he claimed that "an understanding" between Mr. Trump and Mr. Putin might bring together Slavic and American Caucasians and eventually "foretell a unified white world.
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This has important real-world implications: Most Floridians could continue with their daily routines as Dorian churned offshore, whereas Hurricane Floyd in 1999, which followed a similar track as Dorian, triggered widespread and chaotic evacuations because no one could foretell where it would go.
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We know this because growth in the Economic Cycle Research Institute's leading indexes of global manufacturing — designed to foretell directional changes in both the global industrial production growth cycle and the global manufacturing PMI — started heading lower in mid-2017, well before the trade war started.
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For Stock Markets, January Is a Cloudy Crystal Ball | The Stock Trader's Almanac first posited that January markets could foretell the direction of the trading year, but statistics experts say causation is impossible to prove — or disprove, James B. Stewart writes in the Common Sense column.
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Such equipoise is almost as rare in cinema as it is, God knows, in politics, and right now, though we can't foretell whether time will be cruel or kind to Gerwig's "Little Women," it may just be the best film yet made by an American woman.
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In a 27-page letter to top lawmakers on the Senate Appropriations panel obtained by CNN laying out the White House views of the appropriations bills drafted to that point, the administration reiterated its priorities, but didn't draw the kinds of bright red lines that would foretell a future implosion. Sen.
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But on Christmas Day of 1999, when he was 37, came the first in a series of misfortunes that would tie him intimately to Château d'Aunoy and foretell its reimagining: A hurricane tore through the city and the surrounding countryside, ravaging the Bois de Boulogne and the park of Versailles.
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With the appearance of teeth, a child can begin to eat solid food, and the acquisition of this "adult" skill is believed to be a propitious time to foretell what the future holds, said Yulia Antonyan, a professor in the department of cultural studies at Yerevan State University in Armenia's capital.
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While the scale of the economic disaster is still unknown and hard to foretell — early predictions of unemployment filings were off by about a million, for example — quelling one wave at this stage won't necessarily prevent more from rippling out, as Vox's Ezra Klein has written, citing Moody's Analytics chief economist Mark Zandi.
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The early reactions, gathered by Reuters in more than a dozen interviews, may foretell a broader shift in the U.S. climate science community, which had enjoyed solid political and financial support under President Barack Obama but could be isolated under a new administration skeptical of climate change and committed to expanding oil drilling and coal mining.
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These changes, along with the impending British withdrawal from the European Union and the election of Donald J. Trump as president of the United States, foretell a "dramatic shift" in the half-century of Western unity against Russia, said James Goldgeier, a political scientist and the dean of American University's School of International Service in Washington.
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Did Lewis Carroll's Jabberwock foretell our president Come whiffling through the tulgey wood, and burbling… But if I had to choose one poem to give to him, I'd give him Angelou: You may shoot me with your words, You may cut me with your eyes,You may kill me with your hatefulness,But still, like air, I'll rise.
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They have imagined how such DNA insights would detect cancer early enough to be cured, foretell who would have a heart attack, identity who might be at risk for PTSD, inform us of the exact right foods and exercises for our body chemistry, improve our chances of having healthy babies, boost crop yields, find long-lost relatives, and solve long-forgotten crimes.
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And while the singing and dancing (Limón's serviceable choreography doesn't exactly foretell his prominent future as a modern dance pioneer) are both excellent, as is the playing of the ample band under the energetic conductor Sonny Paladino, I couldn't shake the feeling that there was something a bit tone-deaf in resurrecting these lost musicals at this particular juncture, although this may be merely a matter of unfortunate timing.
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White's writing, with his depiction of a returning rainstorm or the slow wanderings of his tortoise, is great literature at a perfect pace, every creature dressed and portrayed in quick-witted adjectives; and he enthralls us with his knowledge of crickets, who are a "thirsty race," who "open communications from one room to another" and who can sometimes foretell the death of a near relation or the approach of an absent lover.
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