We have sent you as witness (of the truth) and harbinger of good news and a warner,

We have sent you as witness (of the truth) and harbinger of good news and a warner,

How we reshape the United Nations today will be a harbinger of the global order of tomorrow.

Then, as the harbinger of happy news arrived and put the garment over his face his eyesight was restored.

Meanwhile, established modes of production were disrupted, in twenty first century business school parlance, causing productivity to fall. But this slump in productivity was actually a harbinger of better times.

O People given the Book(s)! Indeed this Noble Messenger (Prophet Mohammed peace and blessings be upon him) of Ours has come to you, revealing to you Our commands, after the Noble Messengers had stopped arriving for ages, for you might claim, Never did any Harbinger of Glad Tidings or Herald of Warning come to us so this Harbinger of Glad Tidings and Herald of Warning has come to you and Allah is Able to do all things.

O People given the Book(s)! Indeed this Noble Messenger (Prophet Mohammed peace and blessings be upon him) of Ours has come to you, revealing to you Our commands, after the Noble Messengers had stopped arriving for ages, for you might claim, Never did any Harbinger of Glad Tidings or Herald of Warning come to us so this Harbinger of Glad Tidings and Herald of Warning has come to you and Allah is Able to do all things.

Then, as the harbinger of happy news arrived and put the garment over his face his eyesight was restored. He said Did I not tell you? I know from God what you do not know.

So, far from being a harbinger of the break up of Britain, devolution has brought fresh vitality to national life outside London. The new confidence in Edinburgh, which is experiencing an economic boom, is self evident.

For those of us imprisoned in Poland, the Prague Spring was a harbinger of hope. Even Poland s communist newspapers, read behind bars, somehow conveyed news of the great changes taking place in our neighbor to the south.

I hope that the European Parliament s Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice, and Home Affairs will reconsider its behavior, and that the Buttiglione affair will remain only an ordinary political injustice against a single individual rather than the harbinger of second class citizenship for religious believers.

We owe it to the international community at large to rise to the occasion and make the sixtieth anniversary summit a harbinger of change that will provide socio economic advancement, peace and security for all peoples, whom the United Nations has been mandated to serve.

In contrast to the Commission, the stated intention of a growing number of member states is to limit appropriation commitments to 1 of GDP. This would squarely shift most of the adjustment burden onto structural funds, a sure harbinger of bitter rows between old recipients and new entrants.

The soft power of Asian countries, then, lags behind that of the US, Europe, and Japan, but it is likely to increase. Indeed, if the US continues to pursue unattractive policies, it may find that its absence from the summit in Malaysia in December is a harbinger of things to come.

A positive watershed, under appreciated today, developed in the years immediately after World War II with the political transformation of Germany and Japan. America s remarkable investment of resources in this outcome made both countries stable, peaceful democracies, thereby eliminating them as adversaries and turning them into vital bulwarks against the next harbinger of a negative watershed, the Soviet Union.

The recent willingness of ordinary Chinese to condemn corruption publicly is a harbinger, one hopes, of real anti corruption reforms from the country s new leadership. An independent judiciary, financial disclosure by government officials, and other independent institutions have been essential to limiting and forestalling though not fully eliminating corruption in the United States and most other advanced capitalist democracies.

CAMBRIDGE Two years ago, a piece of faulty computer code infected Iran s nuclear program and destroyed many of the centrifuges used to enrich uranium. Some observers declared this apparent sabotage to be the harbinger of a new form of warfare, and United States Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta has warned Americans of the danger of a cyber Pearl Harbor attack on the US.

STANFORD California has long been a harbinger of national and global trends (both wonderful and overindulgent), a birthplace of innovation in everything from technology and entertainment to lifestyles. The world s most important technology companies still make their start and their headquarters in California Apple, Intel, Cisco, Oracle, Google, and Facebook, to name a few in the neighborhood where I teach and live.

For one thing, the divisive war in Iraq may turn out to be the last act of the twentieth century rather than a harbinger of the twenty first. American unilateralism is much less in evidence in the world's other hot spots, such as North Korea and Iran, both because of the costs of the war in Iraq and the realities of the situation in those other regions.

My generation was forged by protests and police truncheons, by the hopes generated not only by the Prague Spring, but also by the Polish student movement that March, the Paris events of May, and the first signs of Russian democracy voiced in the early books of Sakharov and Solzhenitsyn. For those of us imprisoned in Poland, the Prague Spring was a harbinger of hope.

Egypt s public debt is around 80 of GDP, very close to the 90 level that economists Kenneth Rogoff and Carmen Reinhart identify as a harbinger of slower growth and heightened vulnerability to financial and fiscal crises. Egyptians need only glance north, at the European debt crisis, to understand they should sort out their debt problem now, rather than waiting until it reaches Greek proportions.

To her equally frantic detractors on the left and increasingly in the center she is a frightening harbinger of a theocratic America, a mafia style executrix of state business who lies about the connection of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks to Iraq, mocks Barack Obama for his opposition to torturing prisoners, and defies subpoenas. Think of her as George W. Bush II, but in designer pumps.

But China has been far from blameless witness its heavy handed approach to its Asian neighbors in pressing its territorial claims in the East and South China Seas. And, while growing signs of impatience with North Korea have been welcomed as a harbinger of an eventual policy shift, fresh thinking in China has not been sufficient to forestall US efforts to step up military cooperation with South Korea and Japan.

Real GDP growth reached 4.1 in the third quarter of 2013, and fourth quarter growth appears to have been relatively strong, driven by a dramatic rise in housing starts and industrial production. The sharp increases in the prices of homes and equities contributed to a roughly 6 trillion rise in real household wealth in the 12 months ending in September 2013 a harbinger of increased consumer spending (at least by higher wealth households) in 2014.