What's the difference between foreshadow and portend?
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.
Portend
Definition:
(v. t.) To indicate (events, misfortunes, etc.) as in future; to foreshow; to foretoken; to bode; -- now used esp. of unpropitious signs.
(v. t.) To stretch out before.
Example Sentences:
(1) We conclude that CSR is a relatively common breathing pattern in patients who required MVS because of cardiogenic PE and does not portend a poor immediate prognosis in this population.
(2) The initial encouraging results with PSCT so far portend a major therapeutic role of this modality in the approach to hematologic and oncologic diseases.
(3) When the low-back pain is disabling and surgery becomes necessary, failure to obtain a fusion portends a poor clinical result.
(4) This portends a gloomy scenario for the poorer populations of Europe in the 1990s.
(5) However, recent changes in societal perceptions about environmental risks, corporate health care practices, and medical reimbursement patterns favoring provision by hospitals of contractual outpatient services to healthy workers all portend expanded involvement of residents in certain occupational medicine activities in the future, in response to economic pressures on both consumers and providers.
(6) Collapse, although infrequent, still portends a grave prognosis (61% of cases of collapse led to death at Charles Foix Hospital).
(7) We conclude that: (1) thalamic involvement portends a poor prognosis both in terms of histology and survival, (2) beneficial effects of RT are difficult to demonstrate and (3) therapy for pediatric diencephalic gliomas should be individualized and long-term spontaneous remissions may occur.
(8) As with "dedifferentiated" chondrosarcomas and liposarcomas, "dedifferentiation" in a chordoma usually portends an accelerated clinical course.
(9) Time will tell whether elevated levels of bioactive beta-hCG portend neoplastic potential.
(10) Read more “It’s an early warning sign and I think it just portends a massive wind of change in the future.” Studies have shown that higher rates of unemployment are linked to less volunteerism and higher crime .
(11) Stage I cutaneous malignant melanomas between 0.76 and 1.69 mm thick (Breslow measurement) in BANS (upper part of the back, posterior aspects of the arms, posterior and lateral aspects of the neck, posterior aspect of the scalp) areas have been reported to portend a relatively poor prognosis compared to non-BANS sites.
(12) Massive cecal dilatation often dominates the radiographic presentation and may portend perforation.
(13) A bilateral sixth nerve palsy portends serious disease of the central nervous system and precipitates extensive patient studies.
(14) Although previous chemical modification studies had implicated these residues as ligands, the earlier results did not portend the new finding that of all the conserved cysteines only these 2 residues are required for a second function of the Fe-protein.
(15) Computed tomography portends an even greater diagnostic sensitivity.
(16) An injury at work affects the professional athlete more than his nonathlete counterpart because it may portend the end of his playing career.
(17) The BBC will feel vulnerable on all three fronts unless and until the right person is securely in place, and history does not portend well to their being chosen with care.
(18) Accordingly, while the results, unlike those of others, do not portend a future for this form of serodiagnosis in the management of tuberculosis, they offer intriguing hints as to the basis of the variable immunogenicity and pathogenicity of strains of M. tuberculosis.
(19) Occlusion of the common and internal carotid arteries in a patient with symptomatic severe cerebral ischemia, with or without contralateral carotid disease, portends a poor prognosis.
(20) These conditions often manifest as profound shock upon hospital presentation and portend a grim prognosis.