Other symbolic ceremonies, such as eating bread and apples dipped in honey, accompanied with prayers for a "sweet" and propitious year, are performed at the festive meals.
Word to the nonlunar: the Year of the Golden Dragon, which began on Feb. 5 and ends next January, is regarded as an especially propitious year to make business deals, buy property and have a baby.
Many take the simple fact that the two nations, jointly responsible for more than 40percentt of the world's greenhouse gas emissions, are even talking seriously to each other about the issue as a propitious sign after years of mutual distrust.
He had known he was different as a child growing up in Nakawala, his ancestral village; his twin brother, John, had noticed it too, and simply laughed when, after years, he came out to him.The new year looked propitious.
Alderson said the deal with Niese — five years for $25.5 million, with two team option years — was "propitious," given his major league service time.
Our results suggest that dengue is frequently imported into coastal regions through infective sparks from endemic jungle areas and/or cities of other neighboring endemic countries, where propitious environmental conditions promote year-round mosquito breeding sites.
This year Italy will once again have the slowest-growing economy in the European Union.The centre-left opposition, led by a former prime minister (and former president of the European Commission), Romano Prodi, could hardly have wished for a more propitious start to an election year.
In the history of the rugby fixture, the early years proved quite propitious for the latter, winning more than they lost, even of the games that were played in England.
The timing of the sale may be propitious; after all, this is the year of the horse.
Washington's first inaugural address that same year warned that "the propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right which Heaven itself has ordained".
Makers of packaged foods like Kraft Foods are working harder at marketing because the last five years have been a propitious time for them as budget-minded consumers cut down on dining out in favor of eating at home.
