Sentence examples for ominous possibility from inspiring English sources

While these investigators focused on possible natural causes, others looked at the more ominous possibility: that Mr. Stevens was the victim of an organized anthrax attack.

There is another ominous possibility for Holder's voting-rights crusade.

Here Kolbert discusses the plant and the slight but ominous possibility of radiological sabotage.

A more ominous possibility is that the money was siphoned out of the company — i.e. embezzled.

Analysts say that they expect the new suitors to escalate the effort, an ominous possibility for broadcasters who sell advertising.

A more ominous possibility is a major decline in stock prices, as occurred in Japan during the 1990s, Mr. Davis said.

The isolation of this part of Cork, and particularly Roaringwater Bay, would seem to suit them both, but Bondurant suggests more ominous possibilities.

More ominous is the possibility that the Justice Department will demand guilty pleas from banks.

An envelope that might (or might not) be filled with ominous powder, the possibility that someone might slip across a border with a jar of viruses, the impossibility of guarding every subway entrance and roof ventilator against a terrorist with a spray can: "In these times," said Dr. Frank Bia, an expert on infectious diseases and microbiology at Yale, "the unthinkable has become thinkable".

The government will suspend nonessential operations if the Legislature fails to enact a balanced budget by midnight Monday, and all week the Democratic legislators have raised the possibility with ominous warnings.

Though he made a passing, almost ominous reference to the possibility of state takeover ("No emergency manager to date"), Bing didn't address Detroiters' questions about who will be running their city head-on.