Sentence examples for ominous numbers from inspiring English sources

Davos 2012 opens against the backdrop of some pretty ominous numbers.

Travel industry officials had less ominous numbers, with AAA estimating that overall long-distance travel would decline by only 6percentt over a year ago.

It is an occasion calling for hope and perseverance, but most New Yorkers cannot get past the ominous numbers: 91 scheduled protests, at least 175 motorcades, 245 dignitaries requiring Secret Service and police protection, and 3 days of President Clinton stopping traffic in Manhattan.

For most of the trip, we rarely saw a bird, we caught no fish, and the only living things apart from us were the Portuguese man-of-wars, evil-looking jelly fish that drifted by in ominous numbers on calm days.

Despite the ominous numbers, Geoffrey West has some good news.

The midfield trio of Owen Farrell, Brad Barritt and Manu Tuilagi were particularly prominent and asked some serious questions of the Welsh defence after an opening 15 minutes notable for an ominous number of Welsh phases in English territory.

Your open screen will show an ominous number of notifications, which you decide it is probably best not to acknowledge.

You especially didn't want to ponder too deeply the import of the ominous opening number: Verdi's "Forza del Destino" Overture, which, as James M. Keller's program notes point out, "perfectly foreshadows the snowballing tragedy that lies ahead in its opera".

Though associated with the chaos of the immediate years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, reports of nuclear smuggling in the former Eastern bloc continue to this day, and are no less ominous for the number of false alarms that are raised from time to time.

There had been no conga line of commercial planes awaiting their turn for takeoff, no jets loitering overhead somewhere, waiting for clearance to land, no ominous massing of numbered blips on the bright green radar screen, no delays of any kind.

To practitioners in the field, such numbers are ominous, and they portend lean times for new graduates.