Despite stiff competition from a succession of crises during his 17-year tenure as president, Blatter admitted that the charges of "rampant, systemic and deep-rooted corruption" presaged by dawn raids in Zurich and revealed by US authorities on Wednesday were "shocking and unprecedented" in their scale.
The Kristallnacht pogroms presaged attempts to remove Jews from German life completely.
To their credit smaller parties such as the Women's Coalition have led the way here by arguing for tactical voting in this, the most important general election since 1974 when a hard-line unionist victory presaged the death of the Sunningdale powersharing government.
These misty, near-abstract paintings presaged not only the work of the Impressionists but also the Abstract Expressionists who would shake things up half a century after Whistler died in 1903.
He might have lurched to the left, embracing the sort of populism that seemed presaged by his post-Massachusetts declaration that he was "ready for a fight" with the banks, but that would have alienated the centre.
won Democratic-held seats, GOPers rightly predicted that their victories presaged a torrent of unrest with President Bill Clinton and the Democratic majorities in both the House and Senate.
John Kennedy and his successor, Lyndon Johnson, were Democrats and civil-rights advocates, willing to use federal muscle where other presidents were not.The civil-rights movement presaged a partisan sea-change in American politics.
Yet an inquiry into the financial system, which his government commissioned, presaged deregulatory reforms introduced under Bob Hawke's Labor government from 1983, setting Australia up for a long run of prosperity.Social reforms (some of which Mr Whitlam had initiated before he lost power) were less restrained.
ReprintsA CiU plan for reform of the region's constitution, presaged a year ago and leaked in final form this week, "recognises" the Spanish state as a fact, but affirms the "right to self-determination".
MAYBE, or so Iranians hoped, Muhammad Khatami's election presaged a greater degree of intellectual freedom: the recently-elected president-to-be has pledged to respect human rights and defend civil liberties.
The growth of an Olympics industry worth billions of dollars, presaged by the Los Angeles games, has provided new headaches for the current president, Juan Antonio Samaranch of Spain: not only over bribes but, perhaps more important, the growing use of drugs.
