But for most of the 20th century, most people saw roads as heralds of a shinier, happier future.
Hope Group News, house organ of China's largest producer of pig feed, heralds some grand ambitions.
If Mr Karzai's recent cabinet reshuffle heralds more resolute action, he could yet redeem himself.
His arrival heralds an unprecedented era of a former pope living close to his successor at the Vatican.
It is hard to be sure whether this debate heralds a lasting shift in Canada's openness to immigration.
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Today's Queen's Speech heralds a constitutional change for the UK's corporate citizens.
We won't know for some time whether this heralds better conditions for enterprise.
The mistake heralds a run of four lost points that prove enough to take the match into a tie-break.
Every piece of bad news signals the apocalypse, every piece of good news heralds the arrival at the promised land.
Also, the World Cup in South Africa this month loudly heralds the arrival of Africa onto the world sports stage.
The White Nights is a nearly three month-long midsummer celebration that heralds the almost 24-hours of sunlight that blesses this northern latitude.
What if the current reversal of money flows and weakening of the yuan heralds something more than a financial wind shift?
Some claim that the Georgia decision heralds a nuclear renaissance in America.
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On the face of it Glass heralds the beginnings of wearable computing.
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Even in today's higher-income, double-earner "seesaw marriages, " which Rosin heralds as a more flexible roadmap to gender equity, women often run themselves ragged.
Even with rising hopes of easy money, however, the recession heralds were clearly winning the day on Wall Street, judging by the declines.
It really heralds a new era of innovation, where the innovation magic has the potential to shift from venture-backed startups to global behemoths.
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The storm has at least brought the rain to beleaguered rice farmers, but it also heralds the hurricane season which lasts till December.
But Snapchat heralds a more personal way of sharing photos, not to savour the past, but to invite another person into the present.
But some analysts question whether this service heralds a big shift in Europe, which has been very slow to adopt ADSL for Internet access.
Milan, also looked to be if not on the wane then in the kind of "transition" that heralds a long and painful rebuilding process.
In Scotland, where New Year always heralds a giant party, music will provide much of the entertainment with ceilidhs being held around the country.
That weaker economy comes with the backdrop of land and property prices that likely have much further to fall, which heralds pain for Spanish banks.
Together, it heralds a massive overhaul of America's telecoms regulatory landscape.
Other factors stimulate vibrant markets: stable money, property rights, minimal taxes, regulatory restraint and respect for profits, but history heralds the advantages of limited government administered locally.
But in their current excited state, many in the oil market are wondering whether the attack on a foreign compound heralds a bigger one on a production facility.
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Because the Hebrew Bible sees us not simply as "workers" and members of the masses but, rather, as individuals, it heralds that characteristic which endows us with individuality: our creativity.
With Apple offering already offering iPod users over 500 TV series and with 120m TV shows sold to date, it could be the firm that heralds the newly portable video age.
It remains to be seen if the data heralds a rebound in consumer spending, but Wall Street drew confidence from the figure and reversed its early declines shortly into the session.
Most people believe that an inverted yield curve heralds a recession, and right now we have an inverted yield curve at the point where new money is supposed to enter the economy.
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