Sentence examples for Make a prophecy from inspiring English sources

By scaring away customers and suppliers, the bears can make a prophecy of doom self-­fulfilling.

To make a prophecy, you will need to think of something mysterious.

If you and your clan like challenges, then you can make a prophecy challenging, but not over the top hard.

Then he checks what the weather was like on Earth at the time – and he makes a prophecy.

Eight years later, the traveling preacher William Branham made a prophecy that the whole metropolis would tip into the Pacific Ocean for its sins.

The apparently incompetent Divination professor Sybill Trelawney makes a prophecy that appears on the surface to refer to Sirius Black, the person we believe to be the villain, but actually refers to Black's supposed victim Peter Pettigrew.

Nothing here to strain the intellect, and one can make a safe prophecy that the work will soon be in the repertory of symphony orchestras all over the country.

There is something slightly madcap in agreeing to make a hundred year prophecy about a field of study less than fifty years old, particularly a field that has undergone considerable evolution in that time.

This is all the more reason not to plaster a child with a label that they may learn to internalize and make a self-fulfilling prophecy.

With more of Israel's friends in the region being dethroned, it is becoming abundantly clear how much Israel and its Western partners have invested in safeguarding and buttressing the unelected, autocratic regimes in the Arab world, partially to make a self-fulfilling prophecy of Israel as the "villa in the midst of the jungle" -- the myth often repeated by Israel's lobby groups.

In a letter that he wrote to a friend from Tahiti in 1897, he made a shrewd prophecy: "A time will come when people will think I am a myth, or rather something the newspapers have made up".