The strong wind indicates that a storm is coming.

The strong wind indicates that a storm is coming.

Thunder indicates that a storm is near.

It doesn't bode well!

This does not bode well.

That does not bode well.

The Bon festival heralds summer, though.

There is worse news elsewhere in the new plan.

All this heralds a new dawn for mankind.

No sign of that happening either.

Short summers lightly have a forward spring.

This may seem to portend an ever deepening bilateral relationship.

This genial reception augurs well for the success of our mission.

His strength today foreshadows greater uncertainty in Iran s future.

So why did the meeting happen, and what does it portend?

All this does not augur a new change of direction in Europe.

The bullets that killed Djindjic may also have slain Serbian hopes for normalcy at the very moment that we were emerging from the nightmare of Slobodan Milosevic's long misrule. With the bloody wars of the Yugoslav succession still etched deeply in everyone's minds, does Djindjic's assassination herald the end of an era of political violence or the dawn of a new one?

With the bloody wars of the Yugoslav succession still etched deeply in everyone's minds, does Djindjic's assassination herald the end of an era of political violence or the dawn of a new one?

The change of position by theTimes, unfortunately, does not herald an about face in the American electorate.

The PC seemed at first to promise a restoration of the balance in favor of the individual.

Unfortunately, in 2009, the global economy will not be a bed of roses.

But, according to the US Treasury Department, overseas investors sold a record 54.5 billion in long term US debt in April of this year, with China slashing its holdings by 5.4 billion. This dumping of US government debt by foreign investors heralds the end of an era of cheap financing for the US.

This dumping of US government debt by foreign investors heralds the end of an era of cheap financing for the US.

The financial system, still strong thanks to Convertibility and a buoyant global economy, favors recovery but a later recovery.

While something should be done, the magnitude of the problem hardly foreshadows a crisis.

Unsustainable capital outflows bode poorly for future stability, fueled by doubts about Chávez, democracy and the future of capitalism.

China s opening gambit to compel the international community to recognize the existence of a dispute has been successful, and portends further disturbance of the status quo.

Which already, I think, foreshadows the main result that I've talked about, about what a crappy job it was being in the gang.

Which already foreshadows the main result that I've talked about, about what a crappy job it was, being in the gang.

That augurs well for a more rational and constructive Sino American dialogue on global imbalances, which would certainly benefit the global economy.

The Tea Party radicalization of Netanyahu s Likud party does not augur well for the chances of a robust peace process.

As the revolutionary year of 1989 was unfolding, Francis Fukuyama, presciently yet controversially pondered whether the path chosen in Europe heralded the end of history.

The kind of reaction we have seen recently to expressions of views that are offensive to some does not bode well for the future of liberty.

In Germany and in the Baltic States, the withdrawal of foreign troops marks the end of the division of our continent and heralds a Europe free and at peace.

And widening interest rate spreads on government bonds do not bode well, either, as this will quickly lead to pressure for further spending cuts.

In some cases, that ends up wreaking havoc on local ecosystems and spelling economic trouble for local producers and indigenous food supplies.

But such uncertainty, common in times of transition, should not overshadow what the end of the Blair Bush era in Britain holds in store.

That historic gesture resulted from complex combinations of circumstances and developments and presages further arduous negotiations and determined efforts by the Israeli and Palestinian peoples and their neighbours.

Mr. CHINOY (India) welcomed the positive note struck by the Chairman, and trusted that it presaged a just and comprehensive settlement of the question of Palestine.

To finance measures that require permanent outlays with one time revenues presages a new spike of public debt a policy criticized by the European Commission and the IMF.

In the long run, this does not bode well for their global reputations, which depend on users trust in the openness and independence of their products and services.

In this sense, the US led international order could outlive America s primacy in power resources, though many others argue that the emergence of new powers portends this order s demise.

The blackout also portends the coming storm of the federally imposed fiscal control board, instituted as part of PROMESA, the Orwellian sounding law named for its acronym, Spanish for promise.

8. Notes with profound concern that the structural deficit problem confronting the Agency portends an almost certain decline in the living conditions of Palestine refugees and that it, therefore, has possible consequences for the peace process

Does the rise of left leaning governments in Latin America, particularly the election of Evo Morales as President of Bolivia, presage a shift to the hard left across the continent?