0 to be a sign of especially good or bad things in the future: --
Do you think that this recent ministerial announcement augurs (= is a sign of) a shift in government policy?
The company's sales figures for the first six months augur well for the rest of the year.
This does not augur well for other areas of discussion.
It augurs well, indeed, for a first reading agreement.
It does not augur well for more, and perhaps the more weighty, decisions which will be taken by our centralised and purposive planners.
It does not augur well judging how tender the light railway authorities will be with the huge volume that will be involved.
Thus, it seems more than a coincidence that this parameter for two media of widely different viscosities is in both cases close to that of an idealised augur.
A new norm of 'transparency through fidelity' to the work guided both conducting and performing, auguring hierarchical relations between composer and interpreters, and between conductor and players.
Large-scale quantitative studies collected across a broad population can contextualize the individual communities' usages, and augur the direction of change in the use of linguistic variables.
Again, this augurs well for the environmentalists.