Sentence examples for favorable omen from inspiring English sources
Urging the House and Senate to follow the lead of the two most notorious shape shifters in recent political history was perhaps not a favorable omen.
The people in the plaza saw it as a favorable omen for the revolution.
Residents of Naples, Italy, traditionally believe that the dried blood of their patron saint, Januarius, regularly liquefies as a favorable omen for the city.
One Austin aide remarked: "this little skirmish...had a happy effect in the army...[and] was regarded as a favorable omen".
A rat? Hey, if you're looking for favorable omens in a hope-stripped landscape, you work with what's at hand, don't you?
C4 Business Digest C1 OBITUARIES A18 EDITORIAL A16-17 EdiTheials: The return of an ancient hatred; favorable Earth Day omens; Eleanor Randolph on Florida politics.
At a briefing for reporters in Austin, Tex., last week, Mr. Bush's advisers variously mentioned 1960 , 1968 1980 and 1988 as providing omens favorable to their candidate.
Because, as I understand it, inaugurationem specifically means "take omens from the flight of birds, consecrate when such omens are favorable," from in- + augurare "to act as an augur, predict".
Still, the omens are favorable.
But "installment under good omens" doesn't mean that the swearing-in itself is a good omen, it means that if the installment of Obama happens when omens are favorable it would constitute an inauguration.
