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.
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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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.
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.
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.
"The only risk in terms of the comparison is of a self-fulfilling prophecy, " he said.
The Bush steamroller is creating a self-fulfilling prophecy of victory that flattens everybody else.
Undoubtedly, they do not want to short-circuit the political process by creating a self-fulfilling prophecy or by driving a backlash.
Intertwine these with the vagaries of competing ideas, with the accident-strewn adoption of a new technology and the inertia of the old, and Mr Aiken's gloomy prophecy seems entirely forgivable.
Consider the case of global warming, another system of doomsaying prophecy and faith in things unseen.
Enjoy the show and hope that it remains fiction rather than prophecy.
Since then, the possibility of the schools closing has made it a "self-fulfilling prophecy".
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