What makes these two different is that their alienation turned into a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Revelation is a highly colored picture of the present, not a prophecy of the future.
At the core of Wriston's prophecy lies a simple intuition about the pace of technology.
For many in the anti-Obama camp, this will indeed be a Mayan prophecy fulfilled.
"The only risk in terms of the comparison is of a self-fulfilling prophecy, " he said.
So the sales retailers hold, and that consumers flock to, end up fulfilling the prophecy.
Consider the case of global warming, another system of doomsaying prophecy and faith in things unseen.
There is the potential here for a self-fulfilling prophecy, in the manner of a bank run.
Since then, the possibility of the schools closing has made it a "self-fulfilling prophecy".
Admirers of Mr Naughtie may be more interested in his prophecy than his history-telling.
The Bush steamroller is creating a self-fulfilling prophecy of victory that flattens everybody else.
Now investors seem to be giving Research In Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM) the prophecy fulfillment treatment.
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This warning casts its shadow over the rest of the novel like a prophecy in classical tragedy.
In a different way, the far east may also realise the Kremlin's prophecy and drift farther from Moscow.
The downward slope becomes the same self-fulfilling prophecy that the upslope represented, just in the opposite direction.
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What an intriguing name for a jazz ensemble one that conjures prophecy, divination, mythological seers and soothsayers.
Another thing you have to understand about technical analysis too is that it is largely a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Later Dumbledore explains all about the 'prophecy' to Harry - which was made just before Harry was born.
Without close cooperation, our efforts will be imperiled, and Pakistani fears of international abandonment will become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Italy is sliding towards default because its demise has become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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Such mistrust can be a self-fulfilling prophecy and a source of global instability.
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An old prophecy holds that the Chakri dynasty will last only nine generations.
That self-evaluation became a self-fulfilling prophecy in his first debate with Mitt Romney.
Three months later, Robertson turned his prophecy to the town of Dover, Pa.
One wonders if it is a self-fulfilling prophecy amongst hedge fund managers, they all believe it so it holds true.
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Poloma says faith in divine revelation, prophecy and an outpouring of the Holy Spirit are hallmarks of the Pentecostal faith.
"(You're) Timeless to Me, " his duet with screen husband Christopher Walken, is a self-fulfilling prophecy if ever there was one.
Undoubtedly, they do not want to short-circuit the political process by creating a self-fulfilling prophecy or by driving a backlash.
This is creating a self-fulfilling prophecy: once the Bundesbank starts guarding against a break-up, everybody will have to do the same.
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The magazine said New Cumnock needed to "reassess a policy of managed decline which is in danger of becoming a self-sustaining prophecy".
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