Sakhalin may soon offer all of Russia a foretaste of what large-scale oil investment can mean.
He also gave a foretaste of possible policy battles to follow within Labour, predicting "tough and difficult decisions".
The row over Herceptin may be a foretaste of what is to come.
Galina and her Moscow set, with their tolerated immorality and conspicuous extravagance, were a foretaste of the Yeltsin era.
It was, for the French and Germans, a disagreeable foretaste of the fiercer reactions a real delay might produce.
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If Magellan's post-Vinik stance is a foretaste, one can only conclude that the word is out: No more aggressive, contrarian calls.
To get a foretaste of what is to come, try hiring a car or booking a room at a top hotel without a credit card.
The majlis elections are a foretaste of the bigger political dust-up that will come in 2009 when Mahmoud Ahmadinejad comes up for re-election as president.
C. is but a foretaste of the kind of aggression that is in store for us and others when the mullahs finally get the Bomb.
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The scheme would require a new law before it could happen and in a foretaste of debates to come the scheme's supporters and opponents made their points.
In 1860 the Finns, already autonomous within the Russian Empire, were granted their own currency, the markka, a foretaste of the independence that would follow in 1917.
For a foretaste, look at Primorski Krai, a miserable spot in far-eastern Russia where crass politicians, rampant crime and economic decline have given people a hellish winter.
The first of several planned debates gave voters a foretaste of the federal-election campaign due later this year: Mr Abbott, the attack dog, against Mr Rudd, the unflappable, dry bureaucrat.
Starting with this issue, The Economist Technology Quarterly will offer readers a foretaste of what new developments are threatening no, guaranteeing to disrupt the way business is done in the years ahead.
The rioting in France is a foretaste of what must be expected from the populations of unassimilated, disaffected and poor Muslim immigrants who now reside in Western Europe by the millions.
He welcomed the new government's education white paper in July 1997 but, in a foretaste of an imminent shift in style, questioned whether the resources were in place to deliver its aims.
The contest offered a foretaste of what is to come when, for the first time in a British general election, the leaders of the three main parties will slug it out in prime time.
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The result: a pioneering crisis of sovereign debt and a foretaste of the crises now roiling the eurozone, as Italy's debt load reached 120% of GDP in the early 1990s and sent the country into near bankruptcy.
The real fight will come as second and third readings approach in September: Mr Hojdar's revolt is a foretaste of the trouble Mr Spidla will face from trade unions, Communists and left-wing Social Democrats, if he sticks to his guns.
In an apparent foretaste of his controversial Christmas message, the king warned viewers at the time that if their political impasse remained unresolved, they risked the emergence of a form of "poujadism", referring to a right-wing populist movement in 1950s France.
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