Sentence examples for it augurs poorly from inspiring English sources

Granted that it augurs poorly for the written word when a book publisher turns an author's work into what you call a "billboard" ("The Weldon Connection," editorial, Sept. 7).

If genuine, it augurs poorly for the big battles ahead with the congressional supercommittee when it comes to decisions about larger deficit reductions and on the fate of the George W. Bush-era tax cuts slated to expire at the end of 2012.

The audience applaud wildly anyway, but it augurs ill.

It augurs badly for Sri Lanka's children in the current climate of increased hostilities.

"It's just not draining away," is the comment, which augurs poorly for the new drain.

This imbalance augurs poorly for Democrats.

That a united front of developing nations, a powerful bloc including Brazil, China and India, was unable at this month's World Trade Organization meeting in Cancún to get the industrialized nations to give up their farm subsidies augurs poorly for Central America's fledgling democracies.

Even apart from the rising costs of seeking office in districts so large, the sheer size of the districts augurs poorly for local democracy.

When the breadbasket was finally presented, it augured ill.

There was a sense, among Greenwich real-estate veterans, that Antares's residential stumbles augured poorly for its grander schemes, but Beninati, in the time I spent with him, was more inclined to express relief that the company had made it through a very tough year — tough for everyone and not just for Antares.

After seven years of largely blissful beginnings, the Dow Jones industrial average recorded its first January loss, one that some market prognosticators believe may augur poorly for investors.