Sentence examples for had been foretold from inspiring English sources

It was destruction that had been foretold.

And we were convinced that quality would conquer the off-season sag that had been foretold.

But some believed that Selassie was the saviour whose coming had been foretold in the Old Testament.

The object in question was already a legend and its return had been foretold by one of the greatest astronomers of the age.

It had been foretold that at this year's American Booksellers Association convention, in Chicago, the sober printed page would be humiliatingly outdazzled by a battery of communications gizmos, such as interactive software and CD-ROMs.

Though the death had been foretold in advertisements, which announced an impending tragedy that would change things forever, few seemed prepared for the bloody eventuality of Flower's end, her tiny head swollen from infection, the melancholy music that accompanied her never-to-be-resumed breaths.

In the gospels, John had been foretelling (Luke 3 16) the arrival of someone "more powerful" than he, and Paul the Apostle also refers to this (Acts 19 4).

The sovereign debt crisis was one that could have been foretold.

The effect on the bird populations could easily have been foretold.

New predictions from a journalist who contends that important events have been foretold in the Bible.

Most of the recent disasters of geopolitical machismo could have been foretold.