What's the difference between foreshadow and harbinger?
Foreshadow
Definition:
(v. t.) To shadow or typi/y beforehand; to prefigure.
Example Sentences:
(1) He did foreshadow that all Australia bilateral trade agreements have covered “movement of natural persons, particularly things such as mutual recognition, easier recognition of skill sets and whatever, so again those issues have been under consideration”.
(2) They had become an allegory for unhappy love, a foreshadow of Romeo and Juliet set in the Hindu Kush .
(3) Much of the social services (Wales) bill, which is out for consultation for 12 weeks, foreshadows what ministers at Westminster have indicated will be in the white paper and is in line with recommendations by the Law Commission.
(4) George H. Mead's conception of though as internal dialogue between the "I" and "me" aspects of the self and his notion of the "generalized other" were foreshadowed by some of the Scottish moralists, particularly Adam Smith.
(5) Wednesday 16th July 2014 Photograph: Mike Bowers The two gentleman pictured above foreshadowed new national security laws that will give Asio more powers to snoop on computers and more powers to coordinate with other agencies during investigations.
(6) After Joyce discussed assistance in a recent drought tour, the treasurer, Joe Hockey, foreshadowed the “end of the age of entitlements”.
(7) But I think you can read this opinion as foreshadowing of what that’s going to be,” said Carl Tobias, a constitutional law professor at the University of Richmond school of law.
(8) They set a window limited to 60 days for military action – during which Obama could order the limited, tailored strikes he has foreshadowed – while allowing for a single 30-day extension subject to conditions.
(9) Human rights lawyers are foreshadowing a legal challenge against the dramatic move, but the attorney general, Mark Dreyfus, said he was certain it was entirely in accordance with Australia’s domestic and international law obligations.
(10) The proposed and foreshadowed increases in commercial tourism and aircraft landings threaten the ecological integrity of places of outstanding universal value,” their submission said.
(11) Although expensive now, developments of technology and know-how should foreshadow routine usage.
(12) The institute's curiously muted response to the abolition of the Audit Commission foreshadowed a period during which council employment has been disproportionately cut, and such growth as there has been in the professional finance function has been in the private sector, where traditionally the other associations and institutes hold sway.
(13) The society accused him of “intellectual dishonesty”, and its members attacked him online, an unpleasant, but also, perhaps, a bleakly satisfying experience: the incident foreshadowed the themes of Franzen’s new novel.
(14) If the strangeness of Shanghai is meant to foreshadow Auschwitz, Vietnam and the contextless chaos of modern media, Jim's medical studies in postwar England tell us a lot about Ballard's values as a prose-writer.
(15) Earlier this month, John Brennan, the director of the CIA, foreshadowed closer military coordination with the Iranians, laundered through the Iraqi government.
(16) Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill's The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen For a story conceived in 1985, Fashion Beast both foreshadows later Moore works and seems eerily as if it were written with foreknowledge of what would transpire in the world in the intervening years.
(17) The PMB foreshadowing the highly curved cell plates in meristemoids I of the mesoperigenous process, as well as in meristemoids I and II of the mesogenous one, are apposed only on one anticlinal wall and therefore do not encircle the nucleus or traverse the cell.
(18) Also in December, Greg Barker foreshadowed today's announcement , saying: "I'm not a fan of large-scale solar farms.
(19) The White House spokesman, Jay Carney, earlier foreshadowed a fresh round of sanctions against the Russian hierarchy.
(20) This once rare disease became an epidemic among male homosexuals and foreshadowed the AIDS epidemic.
Harbinger
Definition:
(n.) One who provides lodgings; especially, the officer of the English royal household who formerly preceded the court when traveling, to provide and prepare lodgings.
(n.) A forerunner; a precursor; a messenger.
(v. t.) To usher in; to be a harbinger of.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, sepsis-associated CNS dysfunction appears to be as important a harbinger of excess mortality as renal or pulmonary dysfunction in septic patients.
(2) A strong hi-tech presence was a harbinger of better health; a dependence on older manufacturing industries was associated with poorer health.
(3) "May the supreme court’s move be a harbinger of other, more responsible, decisions to come."
(4) It's not obvious what this harbinger of doom is supposed to be.
(5) Acquired isolated oculomotor palsies in some cases are not necessarily a harbinger of serious disease.
(6) Lastly, the occurrence of coagulase-negative staphylococcal peritonitis is a harbinger of future episodes of peritonitis caused by a variety of organisms.
(7) In the former illness, reduced blink rate signifies a worsening of the illness and a significant increase in blink rate in patients treated with dopamine agonist may be a harbinger of agonist-induced dyskinesia.
(8) We feel this is a harbinger of what could come, for what it indicates in terms of what the future holds."
(9) Allende's election three years before at the head of a socialist-communist coalition had a significance far beyond Chile itself, being widely seen as the harbinger of similar projects in countries such as France and Italy, as well as the beginning of a "second Cuba" in Latin America itself.
(10) Isis sees itself as a harbinger of the end of times.
(11) EL: The first psychiatrist I saw subscribed very much to the same view as my friend and the GP – that my voice (and bear in mind, it's still only a single voice at this time) was a sinister harbinger of something much more serious.
(12) It presents to the anesthesiologist the immediate problem of airway management but it also must be recognized by the physician as a harbinger of malignant hyperthermia.
(13) "Apple's new Siri Assistant, unique to the new 4S, is a powerful harbinger of the future use of mobile devices – not just the power of voice but, more importantly, the ability to contextualise a statement or request.
(14) Proteinuria is the clinical hallmark of diabetic nephropathy and the harbinger of progressive renal disease.
(15) In the depressed elderly, characteristic EEG changes occur that may help distinguish major depression from pseudodementia; however, it should be considered that pseudodementia may be a harbinger of primary dementia.
(16) Mesangial cell proliferation, which is a harbinger of glomerulosclerosis, occurs in both immune and nonimmune glomerulopathies.
(17) BP BP was the harbinger of privatisations when James Callaghan's Labour government parcelled off a chunk of the oil giant in the 1970s.
(18) Hezbollah's lead role in the battle for Qusair is widely seen as a harbinger of a broader role for the Lebanese Shia militia in Syria, having instilled momentum into a regime military that had struggled to gain ground in many parts of the country since last summer.
(19) Significant spontaneous gross hematuria, gastrointestinal bleeding or epistaxis appear to represent harbingers of intracranial hemorrhage and constitute indications for emergency splenectomy.
(20) "Perhaps the way the job is defined needs to change, and this is the harbinger of bigger changes to come."