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That sounds ominous.
There was an ominous silence.
From somewhere in the distance came an ominous rumble.
That sure sounds ominous.
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It's very ominous and uncomfortable.
Quiet? There's nothing so ominous as quiet.
When at last he returned to his silent, shuttered house in Mayfair. he could not overcome a sense of something ominous impending.
Don't make it so ominous.
No and that's what ominous.
At that moment, the music turns ominous once more.
The music turns ominous.
I have an ominous feeling.
It looked as ominous in March, but it dissipated.
An ominous and subtle suggestion, Henri.
Its silence is ominous.
I do hope, Mr. Stimson your presence here does not indicate anything ominous.
Well, it sounds ridiculous, but there's something ominous about the whole project.
But thankfully, not all of us are burdened with the ominous forebodings of SEN.
To the South there is the ominous lofty mountain, in the North there are endless high plains.
It looks ominous.
I came in without being announced, thanks to this disorder, which is an ominous sign.
Yes, papa, extremely ominous events.
It was a grey, overcast, ominous day but not for Jim.
Sounds ominous.
An ominous and subtle suggestion, eh, Henri?
Perhaps raising the ominous possibility of a drug-bent crime spree.
Now, now. Enough of this ominous talk.
However, never before had the future looked so ominous for the royal family.
An ominous crapped and small hand revealing a man's mental breakdown.
But Venus is an ominous reminder that on a world rather like the Earth things can go wrong.
Ominous, isn't it?
On my journey I heard ominous rumors of a monster from the old world that had slept beneath Pejite, had been unearthed.
Isn't that ominous?
And an ominous feeling hung about in the air.
Not an ominous white rainbow, but a beautiful, colorful one.
You know, it's possible that, to other people, the situation might not seem so ominous. as it does to you and me.
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News and current affairs
And Iran, in its drive to protect its nuclear program from an Israeli-American attack, might be very active in supporting this ominous scenario.
He may well have maintained that stance had China not established the ADIZ, which set an ominous new precedent by usurping international airspace over the East China Sea, including areas that China does not control.
After all, the deadlock has ominous implications for international security; the longer it persists, the graver the nuclear threat - from existing arsenals, from the proliferation of such weapons, and from their possible acquisition by terrorists.
What makes the demands for reform more pressing this time are ominous developments in Egypt, the region, and in the wider world.
Unfortunately, ominous signs are pointing in the wrong direction.
Indeed, while less ominous and dramatic than financial contagion, trade spillovers profoundly influence global growth prospects.
Indeed, the US Congress has already produced a series of ominous bills aimed at retaliating against China and other countries that engage in one-way currency intervention.
The American political world - not only Republicans, but also Democrats (albeit to a lesser extent) - had fenced out huge, ominous realities.
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.
Substitute China for Britain and today's eurozone for the gold bloc and the trend of events today has the same ominous feel.
There are ominous indications that the relative forbearance of this group may end.
As a result, Iran's near-term political prospects appear ominous.
Threats to the Atlantic partnership from Europe are equally ominous, led by the drive towards European integration.
So, Falung Gong is viewed as an ominous threat to Party hegemony, perhaps even more ominous than any previous protest movement.
This superficial understanding of populism makes the French presidential election an ominous symptom of Europe's blind leadership.
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.
The recent allegation by US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld that Syria is smuggling war materiel into Iraq raises the ominous prospect that America's attention will turn toward Damascus the moment it is finished with Baghdad.
For Putin, the timing of the political eruption in Ukraine - with protesters eventually forcing the Kremlin-supported president, Viktor Yanukovych, to flee the country - could not have been more ominous.
Most ominous for Myanmar's future, given that all genocides are linked to official action, this racial and religious antagonism is in no way spontaneous.
More ominous, however, is the sovereignty dispute between Japan and China.
In many statements, Palin seems intent on invoking God in her judgments about war, an ominous sign for the future if she is elected.
The most ominous case, however, was Germany in the 1930s, which systematically shredded the European order that had emerged after World War I.
The 1967 war, however, represented an ominous watershed.
General James Jones, President Obama's national security adviser, recently put forward a different, albeit equally ominous, prediction.