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How to use augur in a sentence

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In contrast to the coalition of 1969, a new coalition would not augur a new period of social reforms.
Stalin's death, the rise of a new leadership, and the end of the Korean war seemed to augur a thaw in US-Soviet relations.
Unfortunately, announcements made in the past few weeks do not augur well for the future.
It is hoped that this development will augur a new era of cooperation between the AAA and the Academy of Accounting Historians.
I would like to leap to the defence of Quinn, a man as yet untested in football management but exhibiting qualities that augur a bright future.
Indeed, to have an operation begin with a helicopter crash does not augur well for its outcome.
It has to be said though that the developments at CND do not augur well for a future more unified approach.
This combination of cynicism and miserliness does not augur well for the success of the programme.
The process, itself, was cumbersome and did not augur success.
The quality of the athletes, always impressive, seemed to take a quantum leap forward, a happy augur for the future of the sport in this Eastern European nation.
An augur in Latin was someone who could see into the future.
With that in mind, Franks' presence seems to augur a shift in US policy.
This seemed to augur the perfect result, close enough for some drama but with enough separation to avoid an all-nighter.
And they augur badly for the overall effort, revealing the deep level of distrust the Turkish president harbors for the West.
The pope's comment that he wouldn't 'judge' gay priests seemed to augur a new era of inclusiveness from the church.
That disregard does not augur well for the coming debate over immigration reform.
The precedent it set does not augur well for future similar elections.
Those events certainly did not augur well for the success of the project.
This could augur another miserable month for the UK's biggest airport.
The troubles and tribulations of parents to equip their wards for their examination and mushroom growth of coaching centres do not augur well for students, parents or society.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Chipping it with an adze, and boring it with an augur, to ascertain its quality.
However, I could not augur ill of one who laughed so heartily, nor of the other, who seemed so happy in making himself a teetotum.
I augur little success from the plan which you have been induced to follow.
Thus the marriage was accompanied by circumstances so fateful, so alarming, so annihilating that no one dared to augur well of it.
Let me augur that a disorder so tractable may be soon removed.
So far their treatment of her seemed to augur naught that might arouse her fears.
Both were highstrung, both were quick and irritable, and their continual clashes did not augur well for their future.
The ceremony required the presence of an augur and a pontifex to hold it.
One of the judices rejected by Verres on his trial, a pontifex and augur.
I say this, because for the present project I can augur no success.
In so far their suggestion would not augur well for the execution.
I like to hear you speak thus, and I augur well for Edmond from it.
Eckhel infers from the guttus and lituus on one of Sulla's coins that he was an Augur.
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