Sentence examples for may portend difficulties from inspiring English sources

This may portend difficulties in the sustainability of spending reductions by ACOs over time.

"The fact that Chevron has agreed to 'play ball' in Venezuela, while the company's peers have universally rejected the unfavorable contract terms imposed by the Chávez government, may portend difficulty there," said the memo, code-named "Invictus".

But facing the possibility of this transition, Iraqis say hardly anything about him, leaving non-Iraqis to divine what -- beyond caution, or a difficulty grasping what an Iraq without Mr. Hussein might be like -- the forbearance may portend.

The standoff may portend even larger instability for Romania.

Is it a false smile, one that may portend harm?

More troubling, she said, is what Google's flub may portend for the future.

"It is an uneasiness which may portend a greater cultural accommodation".

Experts are trying to figure out what that surge may portend.

At the same time, the Goog-Tube deal may portend the upheaval facing traditional television.

Mr. Paulsen says these changes may portend a slowdown in the economy later this year.

Yet this represents an increase from previous years and may portend more litigation in the future.