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Example sentences for: prophecy
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As it turns out, Fleance escapes to fulfill the prophecy of Banquo begetting a line of kings.
The scope of global "contagion"--the rapid spread of the crisis to countries with no real economic links to the original victim--convinced me that IMF critics such as Jeffrey Sachs were right in insisting that this was less a matter of economic fundamentals than it was a case of self-fulfilling prophecy, of market panic that, by causing a collapse of the real economy, ends up validating itself.
Now Australia's fear of Indonesia is turning out to be a self-fulfilling prophecy."
Maybe it was a prophecy.
His acknowledgements conspicuously do not include any competent economists--not a surprising thing, one supposes, for a man who describes economics as "not really a science so much as a value-laden form of prophecy."