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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.

Presage


Definition:

  • (v. t.) Something which foreshows or portends a future event; a prognostic; an omen; an augury.
  • (v. t.) Power to look the future, or the exercise of that power; foreknowledge; presentiment.
  • (v. t.) To have a presentiment of; to feel beforehand; to foreknow.
  • (v. t.) To foretell; to predict; to foreshow; to indicate.
  • (v. i.) To form or utter a prediction; -- sometimes used with of.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Accumulation of mesenchyme basally presages the formation of the nasal septum.
  • (2) At the weekend Clegg presaged some of the proposals in the Liberal Democrat package saying he wanted reform of the laws on public interest defence.
  • (3) Like all good Shakespearean tragedies, the Trump presidency is presaging its own collapse at the height of its glory.
  • (4) Reagan, after whom buildings, streets and even airports are widely named, would thus become America's Marcus Aurelius, the philosoper emperor of Rome whose death in AD 180 presaged its long, slow decline.
  • (5) The results suggest that manifesting once traditional sex-role characteristics for both adolescent boys and girls presages early onset and heavier adult cigarette smoking.
  • (6) Meanwhile, the sax parped sleazily and the monotone chug of the guitar presaged punk.
  • (7) Fairbairn expressed alarm after the prime minister’s conference speech appeared to presage a hardline approach to Brexit and the home secretary, Amber Rudd, appeared to criticise firms employing a large proportion of foreign workers.
  • (8) drug abuse in Argentina, these results presage a significant increase in the delta agent's prevalence in the immediate future.
  • (9) The two cases are interpreted as presaging a divergence in the paths being taken by the various Scandinavian welfare states.
  • (10) The intervention, tacitly backed by the US, presaged severe, ongoing human rights abuses.
  • (11) They presage a bad prognosis and a rapid demise; the patients survive an average of four months.
  • (12) Both men will now be hoping that the relatively small fall in GDP of 0.2% does not presage a further fall in the first quarter of this year, which would denote the official return of recession and represent a blow in itself to economic confidence.
  • (13) Impaired glucose tolerance often presages the development of non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus.
  • (14) The election results were awful, but not so apocalyptic as to presage extinction.
  • (15) Osborne's statements in Manchester caused anger, said the source, but more for exaggerating the impact of green policies on energy bills than any presaging of policy reversals.
  • (16) STAI following THC presaged a poor analgesic response in this group.
  • (17) A study of the various characteristic features of the heart defect before operation, and of the operative findings, has allowed us to determine a certain number of factors which presage good immediate and long-term results.
  • (18) Recent studies have emphasized that none of the accepted intraoral landmarks used in the conventional mandibular block technique is completely reliable, nor can they presage those instances in which the lingula presents an obstruction to the needle pathway.
  • (19) It has been suggested that a low percentage of epithelial podocyte effacement (EPE) and a high degree of epithelial cell vacuolization (ECV) in nonsclerotic glomeruli presage FSGS, and that extensive epithelial cell vacuolization in biopsies clearly showing FSGS predicts a poor clinical outcome.
  • (20) The hypothesis that blockade of excitatory amino acid receptors will prevent neuronal death presages a new era in acute stroke treatment.

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