| That raises the danger that telling people what way they are going to vote results in the polls becoming self-fulfilling prophecies. |
| In Rome, there were no prophecies emanating from divinely inspired seers who could look far into the future or deep into the past. |
| Chance remarks of the Allied leaders sometimes tended to assume the quality of self-fulfilling prophecies. |
| Similar prophecies had frequently surfaced in Italian millenarian movements during the late medieval and Renaissance periods. |
| Our failures begin to resemble self-fulfilling prophecies, born of the knowledge that most of us can happily fool ourselves most of the time. |
| Mann says it's a strange thing with the fulfilment of prophecies, they often confirm themselves allusively rather than literally. |
