Sentence examples for ominous harbinger from inspiring English sources
He calls this a potentially ominous harbinger as China enters an era of rapid social change.
It was an ominous harbinger for the Rangers, who failed to make the playoffs for the third consecutive season.
The liberal democracy we enjoy is to them merely an ominous harbinger of what they seek to prevent at home.
With free media a critical component of representative government, the S.C.A.F.'s escalating assault on the free press is an ominous harbinger.
Republicans have lost three consecutive special elections for House seats in rock-ribbed Republican districts, a particularly ominous harbinger of electoral catastrophe.
The rights were going to cost many billions of dollars, and NBC had lost more than $200 million on the 2010 Vancouver Games, an ominous harbinger.
A longstanding dispute festers in the north over how to share power in Kirkuk between Arabs, Kurds and Turkmen, an ominous harbinger for power struggles that may ensue in a post-America Iraq.
American combat deaths are on the rise, an ominous harbinger of what lies ahead if an agreement is reached to keep troops here after the withdrawal deadline at the end of the year.
Whether it's Israel maybe pre-emptively striking Iran, Afghanistan spiralling into sectarian violence, Libya becoming home base for Al-Qaeda or Syria continuing to be the site of a government-led genocide, there's no shortage of potential dirty wars and ominous harbingers in the Middle East and Central Asia.
For many in the region, however, Bin Laden's demise is seen as a harbinger of more ominous developments to come: a vacuum created by the pullout of Western forces, the intensification of long-established regional rivalries, and a subsequent rise in instability inside Afghanistan itself.
Jeff Ware, who plays the wise-fool character, Tankhum, a man driven to madness by the murder of his son, couldn't be loonier; a little gravitas would make him more ominous and frightening, like the harbinger of grief he means to be.
