portent

portend | American Dictionary

portend
verb[ T ]
 fmlus/pɔrˈtend, poʊr-/
to be a sign that something is likely to happen in the future:
It was a major scandal whose full exposure portended the end of a popular presidential reign.

Examples of portend

portend
It is also not clear what these elevations in cortisol might portend for these children's futures.
However, its moral passions and indifference to political calculations also portend conflict with partisan insurgents, who inevitably rank movement objectives below electoral imperatives.
Segmental morphology is also more likely to portend complications and need for active intervention and therapy.
However, setbacks of these kinds tend to cluster in the first 6 to 12 months after surgery and do not necessarily portend a bad outcome.
Nevertheless, demographic trends portend change for the system.
And what does it portend for the way ethics gets formulated in contemporary continental thought?
It is important to capture in some detail the full import of this failure and the tragedy it portended.
The transubstantiation is startling in its ambition and in the possibility for the fundamental resetting of the social hierarchy that it portends.
Having a past shared history does not necessarily portend a common fate for us far into the future.
And that does not portend well for the practicality of a hyperreal wager.
In this way, tolerance is 'an index of this very capacity for mixing and of the perceived threat to a social norm that it portends' (p. 73).
It is certainly not my belief that there is any portending difficulty in this matter, either constitutionally or voluntarily.
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