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The Movement for Democratic Change now must decide whether to participate in a runoff despite the ominous environment.
While the local real estate/rental markets remain on fire, given an increasingly restrained funding environment, devaluations for once-hot startups, notable recent layoffs at high-profile tech companies and a challenging IPO market, many observers portend an ominous environment ripe for a bust similar to the early 2000s.
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In his photographs, Isak has created an ominous surreal environment , reminiscent of the German Romanticism movement; Landscape paintings that held the tension between the daily world and the supernatural.
Set in the high plains of northwestern Argentina during the dog days of summer, the movie portrays an ominous semi-tropical environment of grayish mountain peaks shrouded by ragged clouds.
The episode showed how little margin for error remained even for France, which is already suffering from a drop in industrial production and has watched the gap between its bonds' rates and those of Germany widen to record levels, an ominous development in this environment.
"[L]et us see them going about their ordinary business, undisturbed by forebodings … and into this calm environment let the ominous thing put out its head, unobtrusively at first, and then more insistently, until it holds the stage".
But in an interview on MTV News, asked whether "there's an increasing unilateralist bent in the United States government," Mr. Blix replied that on many other issues the United States must be multilateral: "To me the question of the environment is more ominous than that of peace and war.
His characters, who tend to reside and vegetate in the undramatic flatlands of eastern England, scrape away at the borders of stained-glass windows, fondle the carvings on the end of cathedral stalls, or purchase old engravings; and there, in the course of their daily tasks and hobbies, the trouble starts — "Into this calm environment let the ominous thing put out its head," he wrote.
Without major change, a crisis in weed management systems is likely, triggering possibly ominous economic, public health, and environment consequences.
Birds were the primary objects of study for Stallcup, but he always viewed them in a larger context: changes in avian populations, food sources and habitats implied larger - and generally, ominous -- impacts for the general environment and ultimately, human civilization.
"The most obvious, and ominous , example is destruction of the environment , a virtually automatic consequence of the institutional structure of capitalism," explains Chomsky.
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The phrase "ominous environment" functions as a descriptive noun phrase , where 'ominous' modifies 'environment'. It contributes to setting a tone or mood, suggesting a feeling of unease or threat. Ludwig AI confirms its grammatical correctness and usage in various contexts.
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