Sentence examples for augur ill from inspiring English sources
Job cuts, slumping asset prices and a worsening credit drought augur ill for consumer spending too.
His arrest early in January 1808 seemed to augur ill for the colony's more prosperous settlers, including the corps officers.
Kazakhstan's choice of China to develop its second biggest field may also augur ill for others Europeans, Russians and Turks who seek stakes in Central Asia's energy reserves.
Yeats transcended the erotic, suggesting that "to know" is not just a euphemism for sex but also the worst form of carnal knowledge — a realization that the moment of conception can also augur ill.
Hence some behind-the-scenes head-scratching by France's economics ministry and its big businessmen on how to ensure access to an Iraqi market for which France has been the biggest supplier under the UN's programme of limited sanctions.Will these Franco-American tensions augur ill for Mr Chirac, too?
The audience applaud wildly anyway, but it augurs ill.
When the breadbasket was finally presented, it augured ill.
That augurs ill for Britain's economic prospects—and for Gordon Brown's increasingly beleaguered government.
This increasingly alarmed the populace and augured ill for the future of the federalist party of Quebec.
Although Rome far surpassed any other ancient city in size and monumental splendour, its minimal economic and social achievement augured ill for the future.
