So you sort of knew from the portents that President Obama's big Oval Office speech was not going to be a terrific game-changer.
In the meantime, perhaps those with the Knowledge can read from these portents the fate of the euro, the future fashion choices of the Duchess of Cornwall or the winners of the 2012 Olympics.
Since the craft arrived at 67P/Churyumov Gerasimenko in August 2014, the $1bn European Space Agency (ESA) mission has revealed what comets look like (sometimes duck-shaped), what they're made of and that - far from being portents of doom - comets helped seed life on Earth.
He never recovered from this portent, and in February of 1265, possibly as a result of a seizure, he died.
Biggs's spirited and thoughtful triennial does also offer many enjoyable distractions from these airborne portents, however.
LOS ANGELES TIMES -- The symptoms of West Nile virus are like portents from a vintage Hitchcock film: There is the whine of mosquitoes.
But Ashtead added 5.4p to 121.4p after a couple of good portents from the US, where the equipment hire company has around 80% of its business.
Kieslowski's skeptical, open-ended vision suggests that the answers can be intuited only from riddles, signs, portents and sudden, odd strokes of fate.
Not, mind you, that there haven't been such scary recent portents from the continent as mighty Virtus Bologna, sort of the Manchester United of Italian basketball, going belly up, in substantial part because of plummeting TV revenues.
There are plenty of portents from the 1980s as to what we might expect in the 2010s, such as political and economic intentions not delivered as intended while deprivation and discord increased.
