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The confidence man's utter self-assurance can sometimes become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
They start spending all their time in bed and their muscles atrophy and it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Williams told everyone who would listen that his players were useless, and it eventually proved to be a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Convince the electorate that membership is inevitable and it will become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Some have warned that labelling children in this way can be counterproductive, perhaps proving to be a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Wishing will ensure that nothing changes, fulfilling the self-fulfilling prophecy.
To me this stereotype, like many, if not all stereotypes, was nothing but a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Over the years, the curse has served as a blanket term for a variety of shortcomings and has been something of a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Reportedly, he has said he is to be a one-term prime minister, which may prove to be a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Wringing our hands and saying nothing will ever happen because he's Superman is a self-fulfilling prophecy.
In certain cases, prophecy was granted in order to deliver a message to a community or the Nation.
The guidelines given for prophecy apply to all forms of believer-to-believer sharing.
We could make it a self-fulfilling prophecy if we assume they have civility and regard them all and treat them all as one.
Thus, the restoration of prophecy is very important in the unfolding of the Messianic drama.
Children often know what is expected of them, and believing that children will behave poorly can lead to a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Thirdly, prophecy and social action are captured by a knowing that stems from the will.
She hadn't had the gift of prophecy in life, and she wondered why she did now in death.
I grew up with prophecy as a normal facet of my life, so I know how you feel about calling, or intended paths.
All in all, then, for Israelite prophecy the temple had not always been fundamental.
That is why our Torah and tradition insist that the claim to prophecy not be based on miraculous evidence.
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It has often been said that Napier never wrote anything that could bo fairly interpreted as a warning against or a prophecy of a sepoy mutiny.
He has been deluded by a high-sounding prophecy, and it has come to little.
It is curious to observe how exactly the prophecy of the Druidess has been fulfilled with regard to these hedgehogs.
On the Divine side all prophecy is certain, but on the human it can only be approximated.
My cousin said he prayed that her prophecy might come true, but I remained hard and stockish.
They even believe them endowed with something celestial and the spirit of prophecy.
This earth is made too subtly, of too multiple warp and woof, for prophecy.
I had come across the Futuroscope, otherwise a kinetoscope with the gift of prophecy.
More than his ambassadress to the tzin, she bore his prophecy to the generations of the future.
In lawbook as in prophecy, it is the fact of redemption which forms the main ground of His appeal.
What a remarkable fulfilment of prophecy, in the purchase of Aceldama, that potter's field of blood.
The continuator of Jeremiah goes on heaping prophecy upon prophecy without any regard to dates, until at last, in chap.
And I thought that the word of Phoebus, being divine and full of prophecy, would not fail.
The Scandinavian name for women endowed with the gift of prophecy was fanae, fanes.
This is a muggletonian prophecy of the destruction of the world at a certain date.
Hence this prophecy is, mutatis mutandis, an abridgment of that concerning Moab.
A prophecy of the destruction of the famous city of Tyre by Nabuchodonosor.
If either was correct in his prophecy as to the result of free coinage, the other was doomed to disappointment.
As this was the salute for the national holiday, he was safe in making the prophecy.
Infuriated by this prophecy of woe, the guilty people, at the command of their guiltier king, stoned him to death.
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