We should withhold bilateral visits by ministers while the foreshadowed executions continue or for the rest of the year," McCarthy wrote for the Australian Strategic Policy Institute.
Set on Waterloo station, in his hands it became far more than an observation piece, with a poignant story of a little boy lost and with elements of drama and realism that foreshadowed his subsequent work.
The journey in winter to Vienna and on to Turkey was in due course written up by his wife, an account that foreshadowed later travel writing.
In his own writings, especially his essays, his style was quirky, democratic and off the cuff in a way that foreshadowed Dickens or Browning.
There were theorists prior to Austin who arguably offered views similar to legal positivism or who at least foreshadowed legal positivism in some way.
The opposition leader has given notice that he will move his private member's bill on Monday, seconded by his deputy Tanya Plibersek, who had herself foreshadowed a private member's bill in 2014.
In his recent book, Windsor's Way, he foreshadowed a possible return to politics.
This, after all, is the director who put Isabelle Huppert through the wringer in The Piano Teacher, foreshadowed the rise of Nazism in The White Ribbon and douses the lights altogether with Amour.
I've tuned in now to the senate debate we foreshadowed earlier today on the Democratic Labor Party Senator John Madigan's bill to remove Medicare funding for gender selection abortions.
Before we are frightened into accepting the sort of legislation Abbott foreshadowed, it is worth recalling the sober warning of Benjamin Franklin, who said: Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.
