It was an inauspicious beginning for Halpert, a harbinger of the challenges he would face for the next four decades.
The episode in which she and a group of friends are arrested for creating a public disturbance (and later busted for drugs) is a harbinger of more serious jail terms for some of them, as well as assorted freak-outs, car wrecks and "drug-related obliterations".
Predictive policing programs like this one, used for now only for property crimes, are a harbinger of how, for better or worse, police officers across the country are relying on the data analytics business.
That hand-written sign for arugula was a harbinger of things to come.
Later, seeing a commemorative effigy on the father's tomb, he flippantly invited it to dine with him, and the stone ghost duly arrived for dinner as a harbinger of Don Juan's death.
Behrens's work for AEG was a harbinger of a major area of graphic design in the second half of the 20th century: the creation of a corporate identity through a program using trademarks, typefaces, formats, and colour in a consistent, controlled manner.
On the Republican side, in 2008, Sarah Palin's electrifying speech, delivered to a crowd that had trouble ginning up excitement for John McCain, was a harbinger of the Palinization of the Republican Party that occurred after McCain lost, even if Palin herself didn't survive her rocket launch.
With Tiber joining at least ten other successful Lower Tertiary explorations in the area, analysts viewed the announcement as a sign for optimism, and a harbinger of renewed interest in, and production from, the offshore Gulf of Mexico.
For England it was a harbinger of doom, for Wales a symbol of spiritual defiance in the face of overwhelming odds.
