He switched from the standard Muslim calendar to one marking the years since the Prophet Muhammad's death, only to decide later that the birth year was a more auspicious place to start.
There are opportunities for technology ventures, to be sure, but I believe there is, perhaps, a more auspicious time to enter that particular market.
Coleman ended weeks of speculation about his future by agreeing a new two-year deal on Friday and would have hoped for a more auspicious start to the new chapter of his career as Wales boss.
But the good ones can get sent across the border under more auspicious circumstances, to spread democracy abroad with automatic weapons, courtesy our uniformed services.
The power of the Likud Lobby, especially in an election year, facilitates Netanyahu's attempts to convince those few of his colleagues who need convincing that there may never be a more auspicious time to bring about "regime change" in Tehran.
Mr. Abdel Maguid said: "Disputes can be settled only through negotiations, not big general proposals," suggesting that an approach like the crown prince's might be more auspicious at a time when the two combatants are actually compelled to sit at a table and talk to each other.
It is to move to even more auspicious quarters in 2003 with the completion of new facilities on Columbus Circle.
The miniature Harlequins had home advantage for the Urban Rugby finals and semi-finals, when the competition transferred from the playing fields of Richmond College to the more auspicious surroundings of The Stoop, but they lost 8-7 to Exeter.
On the advice of an astrologer, Nguyen Van Thieu changed his birthday from a date in November 1924 to a more auspicious day, April 5 , 1923
It was a difference of only 24 hours, but all the difference in the world to the Chinese immigrants the clinic was largely built to serve, who believed the 25th to be a more auspicious date.
