Nashir, the Khanabad governor, who is the scion of a prominent family, said that the rise of the warlords was just the latest in a series of ominous developments in a country where government officials exercise virtually no independent authority.
As sports enthusiasts were being tantalized by an endless array of Topps and Upper Deck exhibits, an excursion to Camden Yards and even a cavalcade of Baltimore sports legends, a suspicious and ominous presence casted a daunting shadow over the normally joyous festivities.
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The name is ominous for a reason as they represent possible ends to the trend.
It was looking very ominous for a deflated Spurs side, but they were thrown a lifeline three minutes later when Almunia fumbled Huddlestone's shot and substitute Bent turned in the rebound.
But some saw it as an ominous sign, a scent of irrational exuberance and the prospect of falling prices in 2012.
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However, the test provided ominous news for a group of former Chernobyl clean-up workers who, although they had lung disorders, had not yet fallen prey to cancer.
There were few cars on the road, and the sky was cloudy, an ominous sight in a city that gets only seven inches of rain per year.
What makes the Romney mobilization particularly threatening to Obama is that it targets his biggest challenge -- polls consistently show him ahead but there are ominous signs that a decisive group of those supporters won't actually cast a ballot.
There is good reason to think that treating Brazil's crisis as merely a temporary setback on the road to recovery is to ignore a potentially more ominous Big Picture - that the event represents another loop in a deflationary spiral that could dampen the world's economic prospects for years to come.
The album art is moody and dark, per requirements, though a touch less ominous-looking than what you find on many other covers: what might be a couch under a sheet sits in the middle of a forest rendered in shades of light green and brown.
There is a point after which Ehrenreich keeps running to Englert and passionately declaring his faith in her despite ominous signs, which gets a bit repetitive.
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We have now had a truly ominous streak of chip warnings that span the spectrum of economic activity.
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This year, however, the March 10 anniversary took on a more ominous tone.
Against that dark background, he often paints in broad, brooding strokes with an ominous cochineal crimson or a dense cobalt blue.
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Job cuts in the financials have been an ominous trend, and a sign that the sector is readying itself for a new normal.
That is a particularly ominous sign: it suggests that after propping up economic activity for so long, Americans are losing their urge to shop.
But the damage reports are ominous, and at a minimum, Sandy promises more power outages than that seen in the Detroit Tigers lineup this World Series so far.
She was relieved that Tyler began crying -- silence would have been a more ominous sign -- but she knew she had to get her son to an emergency room.
But the signs looked ominous when Muliaina showed a fine turn of pace to break free up the left wing and round off a fine passing move by going over in the corner.
But Teixeira, on his return to the Yankee complex, said that he actually has a partially torn tendon sheath, a more ominous injury that has felled several stars in the past few years.
An online payment system not unlike PayPal, the company says the plain-sounding-but-ominous-in-a-sci-fi-way Credits will streamline commerce on Facebook (games first), and, with Zuckerberg and Co. taking a 30% cut of every transaction, perhaps fatten the bottom line one day.
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Partly as a result of this ominous distinction, the second son of Rushton Skakel remains, to this day, a leading suspect, if not the leading suspect, in the investigation of her murder.
Arguably, a still more ominous threat is that posed by another strategic development: the burgeoning prospect of significant ballistic missile proliferation in the Third World.
The choice of Chernobyl is a mirror opposite, when technology ran amok, destroyed lives, melted down and our newfound truths and domination by technology sent a terrible, ominous warning.
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But instead of an ominous sci-fi vision of a planet run by robot overlords, they envision a world that will be shaped, for better or worse, by us.
The "Dragon Tattoo" duo say their icy, ominous score wasn't intended as a rebuke of symphonic schmaltz.
More ominous still, Buck insinuates himself into a children's theater, writes a simple-minded play that's seething with unresolved sexuality, then pays the theater's dimwitted manager, Beverly (Lupe Ontiveros), to produce it.
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The setback is an ominous sign for an economy already facing a severe test in 2011, as the government's fiscal retrenchment moves from plans in Whitehall to reality on the ground.
The ominous development can, however, provide a silver lining to U.S. defense contractors that may be see a fall in domestic and European demand in the wake of large spending cuts and austerity measures.
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