Countless dire predictions, from that of Malthus to that of the Club of Rome, have been proven wrong.

As a former ambassador to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), I can say from experience that such dire predictions are nothing new.

China s increased financial power may have increased its ability to resist American entreaties, but despite dire predictions, its creditor role has not been sufficient to compel the US to change its policies.

Over the years, however, as the world economy continued to grow without interruption and, in the current age of globalization, seemingly without limits the dire predictions of the Club of Rome have become increasingly an object of ridicule.

Mr. Ford made his predictions,

But China s bark was louder than its bite. China s increased financial power may have increased its ability to resist American entreaties, but despite dire predictions, its creditor role has not been sufficient to compel the US to change its policies.

Dire predictions that the rise of the SWF s means that the global financial system is becoming a form of state capitalism may be exaggerated. But a small group of government players managing a vast amount of foreign assets does create complications.

I hope Tom's predictions are wrong.

A dire war

Fortunately, there is little reason to believe such dire predictions, or that the market gyrations that have been driving recent headlines represent anything more than short term volatility. After all, equity price movements are a poor predictor of the real economy s performance.

You're constantly making predictions about your environment.

Nicholas Negroponte, in 1984, makes 5 predictions

Geneticists often express skepticism about such predictions.

Predictions of outright default are far fetched.

We have the technology to make predictions.

If so, the gloomy predictions of absolute American decline will turn out to be as misleading as similar predictions in decades past.

How can we know if these predictions are correct?

Shehu And from there we will be able to, hopefully, make better predictions and then we compare it to the graph and also make some predictions.

The basic idea was to solicit thousands of predictions from hundreds of experts about the fates of dozens of countries, and then score the predictions for accuracy.

And there's predictions that we'll be nine billion by 2050.

So let me give you a few examples of predictions.

Defying such sour predictions, voters clearly felt that elections matter.

These are ominous predictions, especially in light of troop movements.

For many others, however, circumstances remained dire.

And these things happen all the time. You're making these predictions.

Fed up with apocalyptic predictions, people wanted a miracle in Copenhagen.

Such predictions counsel caution against over reaction by policymakers outside Japan.

The point is that we should be wary of hyperbolic predictions.

The dire consequences of such failure could include

A major problem is that such predictions often confuse resources with reserves.

However, in courts, as in the open sea, predictions often prove unreliable.

Fully 20 of the population lives in dire poverty.

The word came into you, and you're making these predictions all the time.

Why should predictions of the collapse of CCP rule be taken seriously now?

The forecasters have now shifted their predictions of 3 plus growth to 2011.

Their failure would have dire consequences for the entire region.

Haiti was in dire straits even before the earthquake struck.

Something had to be blamed for their dire economic conditions.

American airports are as dire as British ones, maybe worse.

Zimbabwe is not the only country facing that dire prospect.

The situation on the ground in Shlomi is also dire.

At this rate, current oil output and oil exports now exceed post invasion predictions.

Particularly in the world of sea ice, the rate of natural change is outstripping predictions of just a few years ago, and the processes either are accelerating or the predictions were too low to begin with.

In two important ways, this year s effort was actually less dire.

Some in the financial sector would, of course, threaten dire consequences.