Overcast skies portend a rough day for boats on Iceland's Lake Myvatn.
The SNS victory may portend the eclipse of the once-mighty Radicals in the next general election.
Even if melting glaciers provide an abundance of water in the short run, they portend a frightening endgame: the eventual depletion of Asia's greatest rivers.
Experts say it does not portend an earthquake.
More troubling, she said, is what Google's flub may portend for the future.
This could portend trouble for sanofi, which is relying on Genzyme's expertise to strengthen its presence in protein-based therapies and the rare-diseases market.
These clouds are ominous. They portend a severe storm.
The Wall Street crash does not portend big budgets for what some people see as a luxury agency like NASA.
By any measure, that's important stuff, though as with last year's invisibility cloak, it doesn't portend magical applications in the everyday world — and won't for a long, long time.
The change did not portend a basic improvement in social conditions.
Black clouds portend a storm.
A particular concern is that the recent resurgence at the euro zone's core could portend a protracted slump at its periphery.
These are particularly important today as modern medicine is able to identify genes that portend high risk for certain diseases.
That would portend increased flows of glacial ice from Antarctica and a rise in global sea levels, endangering low-lying land areas.
Our times portend a new age of discovery which will require new kinds of learning.
What does all this portend for the near future?
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