Sentence examples for augur from inspiring English sources

They lost 1-0, which doesn't augur well, but more happily they stayed up anyway because Newcastle lost to a team in claret and blue – Aston Villa that time – to go down instead (when they went down the following year their demotion had already been sealed before their final game).

It doesn't augur well for future Liberal Democrat support, given that students go on to become opinion formers in society".

A brown butterfly does not augur well for the year ahead.

Cameron's speech did not augur well.

But their heightened xenophobia and demonisation of contact with the West augur badly for Barack Obama's effort to engage with Iran's rulers.

In the three-to-two vote to appoint him, Mr Pitt cast the deciding vote alongside the commission's two Republicans in a partisan split that does not augur well for a supposedly independent body.Mr Webster's past will now come under even greater scrutiny.

Does this frenzy of building augur badly for the world economy?

The crowd looked like it would welcome lower gas prices, but if they went up to $5 a gallon it would be an annoyance more than an impediment.These distinctions do not augur well for Mr Romney.

Some of the resulting shortcuts--replacing an "expensive" wedge of lemon with a little more cheap rice, for instance--are hard to notice, but they do not augur well.Who ate the fish?This squeeze will seem familiar to every small supplier, from disk-drive makers to cheque-book printers.

That old stockmarket saying does not augur well for 2010, given that the MSCI World index fell by 4.2% in the month, the biggest decline since February 2009, and emerging markets dropped by 5.6%.Although markets rallied a bit in early February on better-than-expected economic data, the poor start to the year reflected an inherent contradiction to the rebound of 2009.

Mr Putin's solidarity after the September 11th terrorist attacks seemed to augur a new era in Russian-American relations.