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The company's sales figures for the first six months augur well for the rest of the year.
Do you think that this recent ministerial announcement augurs (= is a sign of) a shift in government policy?
She however, notes rightly that the concentration of power in the hands of the chief executives does not augur well for democratic accountability.
One can only speculate as to what this augurs for a future settlement to the country's conflict.
English condemnations of augur y and divination were more often directed not against its theoretical underpinnings but against its cultural setting.
It augurs well for the standing of the series as a whole.
Such circumstances augur unfavourably for tackling parenthood at an early age.
The small size of the microbioids <0.1 mm diameter (towards the lower limits of nanobacteria) augurs against a bacterial origin.
Mechanistic spending restraints are less palatable when they augur painful sacrifices to organized or sympathetic constituencies in exchange for the uncertain hope of diffuse public gain.
Again, this augurs well for the environmentalists.