So the sales retailers hold, and that consumers flock to, end up fulfilling the prophecy.
Now investors seem to be giving Research In Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM) the prophecy fulfillment treatment.
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Some of the faithful believe that in order to fulfill the prophecy of I-35 being the "holy" highway, it needs some intensive prayer first.
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World market players are not ready to pull the covers up over their heads and stay in bed, behavior that will ensure that the prophecy of impending immolation is fulfilled.
Europe, as he sees it, Islam's next frontier. 1999 YUSUF QARADAWI: So Constantinople has been conquered and now the second part of the prophecy remains, which is the conquest of Rome.
Most explicit are those who have called him God's punishment of European Jews for their secularization, then gone on to argue that it was mainly because of Hitler and the Holocaust that the biblical prophecy was fulfilled and the state of Israel born--only Western guilt on so massive a scale could have cleared the way to the Promised Land.
Later Dumbledore explains all about the 'prophecy' to Harry - which was made just before Harry was born.
When asked whether such criticism is fair, the Reverend Joshua, who sparks controversy by claiming the gift of prophecy, quotes passages from the Bible about the persecuted being blessed.
Revelation is a highly colored picture of the present, not a prophecy of the future.
The downward slope becomes the same self-fulfilling prophecy that the upslope represented, just in the opposite direction.
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"That spirit of revelation also including the spirit of prophecy that God's going to tell you what is going on, and what is going to go on, and you guys are going to have that within you, and it's just going to bubble up and bubble over and it's going to pour out throughout the state of Alaska, " Palin said at the time.
There is the potential here for a self-fulfilling prophecy, in the manner of a bank run.
At the core of Wriston's prophecy lies a simple intuition about the pace of technology.
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.
Three months later, Robertson turned his prophecy to the town of Dover, Pa.
Yet Mr Weber disagrees with previous writers such as Norman Cohn who treated millennial prophecy as the voice of the marginal, the disoriented or the oppressed.
In Istanbul he placed in a cradle a fish dressed in infant's clothing, dramatising a prophecy that the messiah would be born under the sign of Pisces.
Because the XPS One, made by Asustek of Taiwan, has a built-in television receiver that makes it as easy to watch and record cable TV as to surf the Web and download videos from YouTube--finally delivering on the long-awaited prophecy of TV-PC-Internet convergence.
Zhu Enshuo, a Christian minister, told China Daily that the cult might try to explain away their doomsday prophecy failures by saying God had saved people from the apocalypse.
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An old prophecy holds that the Chakri dynasty will last only nine generations.
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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There is also a danger that the market may turn its fears into a self-fulfilling prophecy by starving needy companies of cash and forcing them over the edge.
For Margaret Barker, a Methodist scholar, part of the faith's power lies in its insistence that prophecy and divine revelation did not just happen once, a long time ago: the flow of messages from God is still in progress.
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The growing popularity of this sort of indexing can become a self-fulfilling prophecy as a disproportionately enormous amount of money flows into the large companies that dominate the index.
Poloma says faith in divine revelation, prophecy and an outpouring of the Holy Spirit are hallmarks of the Pentecostal faith.
It may be that this was Mr bin Laden's plan: to revive the idea that Islam and the West are doomed to collide and make the idea into a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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