In time he will make India a success, not a continent-sized embarrassment; and the augury of that triumph is this show, slickly choreographed and punctuated by adoring Twitter messages shown on giant screens.
That is why losing talented young officers is such a troubling augury: because they are among the army's most distinctive attributes.British officer recruits tend to be better educated than those of other Western armies.
Three people, two of them former Scottish ministers, are vying for her job; a choice is due on September 13th.In this section Home's where the hurt is Dam difficult Defying augury Backyard blues Estate management Religious rights and wrongs Exit, unfunded?
Indeed, such "quantitative easing" is an augury for the option to be tried in extremis: reflating the economy by printing money to finance budget deficits.
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Letters are welcome via e-mail to [email protected] London Stock ExchangeSIR – Your bald assertion that the merger last year of the London Stock Exchange and Borsa Italiana "has proved a disaster" is simply baseless ("Defying augury", September 6th).
Mr Fletcher had better hope the Keeneland's Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup is no augury: the challenger, Collect the Cash, thundered past the odds-on favourite in the final straight.Kentucky has not voted for a losing presidential candidate since 1960.
The rise may have been affected by the after-effects of the fuel crisis, but the latest figures suggest "a weaker downtrend in unemployment", says Ciaran Barr, an economist at Deutsche Bank.An encouraging augury for inflation is that wage pressures remain subdued.
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In a regional election on the day when he received his mandate, the voters of Sardinia unexpectedly handed victory to the candidate for governor from the centre-left a fine augury.
So it looked like a grim augury for Fernando de la Rua, the current president who, like Mr Alfonsin, is a member of the Radical party, when looters attacked supermarkets in several cities recently to obtain food.
