In this sense, India, China, Dubai and Mexico may be not imitators as much as harbingers.
We are already seeing the harbingers of that future: Internet-ready refrigerators, automobiles, televisions and, soon, wristwatches.
People in one neighbourhood may overlook nuisances that others view as harbingers of chaos.
It will take time to get to this hydrogen age, but there are promising harbingers.
They are simply harbingers of a great deal to come that will arrive sooner than you think.
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Surfers can line up again and again to block the ferry and other harbingers of the future.
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These reports of important homebuilder, consumer, and business confidence plunging are not harbingers of hope for the second half.
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He also cites big runups in gold and commodity prices, as well as a steeply inverted yield curve, as harbingers of inflation's resurgence.
Scientists, including some of those at the IPCC, have sometimes played along with this, looking for harbingers of catastrophe to act as goads to change.
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The hundreds of millions of smart phones and tablets now in use across the world are harbingers of a revolution that goes well beyond what we think of as the mobile market today.
With the fall 2013 fashion shows moving on to London on Friday and then to Milan and finally Paris, New York is likely to be remembered for some notable collections and harbingers of fall.
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