Sentence examples for early prophecies from inspiring English sources

Amazon survived early prophecies of doom; branched out into selling music, movies, electronics and toys during the dot-com boom of the late 1990s; and made it through the dot-com bust of 2000 and 2001.

Yet, refusing to give in to early prophecies that it would come and go, the genre continues to thrive 35 years on, spilling over from music into art, fashion, TV and film.

The point that apostasy would set God against the community was made in early prophecy; the idea that violation of the social and ethical injunctions of the covenant would have the same result was first proclaimed by Amos.

If we narrow the authors' focus to East and Southeast Asia, the similarities and parallel advances they cite make abundant sense, bringing closer to fulfillment the early prophecy of the Japanese writer Okakura Tenshin: "Asia is one".

He also spoke of the earlier prophecies of New York's post-9/11 decline, which turned out to be short-sighted.

Mr. Schnebly's earlier prophecy of a winter wonderland came true: it was warm for an hour or so, with a blue sky.

Since 1917, many have been convinced that the Beast will arise in Russia; the Bolshevik Revolution confirmed for them an earlier prophecy that Russia would play a major role in the tribulation.

An earlier prophecy than Nietzsche's regarding tragedy and opera was made by the German poet Friedrich von Schiller in a letter of 1797 to Goethe: I have always trusted that out of opera, as out of the choruses of the ancient festival of Bacchus, tragedy would liberate itself and develop in a nobler form.

He has written numerous reviews and articles about faith, church history and ministry, as well as a book, "The First Theologians: A Study in Early Christian Prophecy" (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 1994).

In 1928 Rutherford discarded Russell's teaching that the natural Jews would be restored to Palestine and return to God's favor, despite having declared ten years earlier that prophecies of their restoration were already being fulfilled with the British takeover of Palestine from Turkey during World War I.

But just as lasting and undeniable as his imprint in modern environmental history is Gore's early and sustained prophecy -- there's no other word for it -- for the inevitable impact of the Internet in our everyday lives.