Perhaps most portentous of all is Moscow's drumbeat that only a political or diplomatic solution is acceptable.
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For the following reasons, this ploy should be seen for what it is: a portentous move to restrict U.S. flexibility in deploying effective strategic defenses.
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This outcome was due largely to the determination of the Japanese Foreign Ministry to preserve the integrity of Japan's traditional policy of demanding the unconditional return of the territories and widespread skepticism in Japan over the portentous, recentralizing direction of the Soviet government under Gorbachev's leadership.
Over half of Britain's 434 councils have signed the portentous-sounding Nottingham Declaration on Climate Change (or its Welsh and Scottish equivalents).
What's most disappointing about O'Connor's capably acted but gloomy and portentous movie is how it shies away from any real complexity.
By quickly, I mean from the very first scene, which wittily undercuts the portentous opening music and sets up the movie's first puzzle: how do the casually smug, cynical lab-coated technicians played by Bradley Whitford and Richard Jenkins relate to the five bright, sexy college kids we see taking off for a cousin's countryside retreat?
Unfortunately for the Clinton Administration and its advocates on Capitol Hill, the case for this largely undisciplined transfer of American taxpayer funds to Moscow has been rocked by revelations contained in the attached, portentous op.ed. article published in today's Wall Street Journal.
President Obama's studied indifference towards the situation there and his determination, come what may, to pull all U.S. forces out is setting the stage for a portentous American rout.
Dismantling the entity that performed this function during the Cold War, the U.S. Information Agency, was just one of the precipitous and strategically portentous mistakes made in the heady days following the tearing down of the Berlin Wall.
Ms von Lange, who has been dubbed literature's answer to the Spice Girls, saves her novel from sounding too condescending and portentous by injecting a heavy element of comedy into a book intended to upset the grown-ups.
But the fact that many of the phones were sold at Apple outlets--and those who buy their phones from Apple's Web site may never have to set foot inside a store at all--is portentous.
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