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That may sound ominous, but it is precisely where we need to be: unable to continue retreading old ground, we must resolutely set our future path.
That is what makes it so ominous for Europe.
So, Falung Gong is viewed as an ominous threat to Party hegemony, perhaps even more ominous than any previous protest movement.
Mueller has hired experts on financial crime – an ominous development for other targets.
The third explanation is more ominous.
This kind of sentiment is more alarming, and more ominous, than Brexit’s implications for the future of the British economy.
Only by strengthening UN sanctions to such an extent that North Korea is forced to abandon its missiles and nuclear weapons – and China to reconsider its knee-jerk support – can the regime be dissuaded from further, and more ominous, maneuvering.
A more ominous question is familiar from novels and movies: Will we have to defend our civilization against intelligent machines of our own creation?
Indeed, while less ominous and dramatic than financial contagion, trade spillovers profoundly influence global growth prospects.
If so, these elections appear to foreshadow ominous times ahead.
Equally ominous, the banning of hundreds of candidates for alleged ties to the Baath Party signals a return to sectarian politics, which could reignite a sectarian civil war.
As a result, Iran's near-term political prospects appear ominous.
But the most ominous manifestation of this tendency can be found in Germany’s Christian Democratic Union/Christian Social Union.
The American political world – not only Republicans, but also Democrats (albeit to a lesser extent) – had fenced out huge, ominous realities.
A more ominous development is the emergence of a group called the Supporters of the Islamic State in Jerusalem, which has claimed responsibility for murdering – as a gift to the new caliph – the three kidnapped Israeli teenagers whose bodies were recently found in the West Bank.
More ominous, however, is the sovereignty dispute between Japan and China.
The initial signs are nothing if not ominous.
And there are ominous signs of tension in the interbank market, as more and more banks, reflecting weak confidence that the stability of the system has been restored, would rather deposit their money at the ECB than lend to other banks.
More ominous than the potential actions of the ex-communists is the bitter fact that half of the Polish population, the half that fought so hard to establish democracy in Poland, may see in the new democratically elected president a representative of dictatorship and national dependency and thus consider him morally unfit to hold his office.
Indeed, what is most ominous is that extremists realize this more clearly than the moderate, silent majority, who find the noise irritating but do not know how to start a serious dialogue.
Among the many dangers lurking along it today, the most ominous concerns the response of Israel and the United States to the question of when Iran’s nuclear facilities will become impregnable, creating, in Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak’s phrase, a “zone of immunity.”
General James Jones, President Obama's national security adviser, recently put forward a different, albeit equally ominous, prediction.
While territorial disputes, such as in the South China Sea, attract the most attention – after all, they threaten the safety of sea lanes and freedom of navigation, which affects outside powers as well – the strategic ramifications of competition over transnationally shared freshwater resources are just as ominous.
And the ominous news continued to stream in.
The third was even more ominous: America’s own vital interests must be directly at stake for it to do what is necessary to uphold another country’s territorial integrity – even a country that it has pledged to protect.
Pakistan’s Democracy Will SurviveLAHORE – The decision by Pakistan’s Supreme Court to remove from office Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, who had a comfortable majority in the National Assembly, is viewed by many in the West as an ominous sign of renewed political instability, if not heralding a return to authoritarianism.
In view of some big countries’ intense national egoism, the failure to agree on the EU’s 2007-2013 budget could have ominous political consequences for Europe.
Threats to the Atlantic partnership from Europe are equally ominous, led by the drive towards European integration.
There was a more broader, more ominous message as well, one that belies China’s official rhetoric of harmony: “We should not leave the world with the impression that China is only focused on economic development, nor should we pursue the reputation” of being a “peaceful power, which would cost us dearly.”
President George W. Bush has made similarly ominous, if more vague, statements about Iran.
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