Sentences with phrase «not auspicious»

Going 0 - for - 5 was not an auspicious way for the Braves rookie to start his career in Major League Baseball.

Not an auspicious start, but then again, who am I to judge a site that's got Lexis / Westlaw as a sponsor and an editor who actually gets published in the New York Times.

Karlsson's chosen title, then, is not an auspicious start, and the tone and accuracy of his article is downhill from that point.

This is not an auspicious start to the development of the sixth climate assessment.

Laura Byrne Paquet's first encounter with the written word was not auspicious: her birth announcement appeared in the local newspaper classifieds under the heading «Livestock...

Municipal bond exchange - traded funds (ETFs) were introduced about a year ago, in retrospect, not an auspicious time.

Bearing in mind that this 5 million total was reached with prominent placement on Amazon.com and a loss - leading pricing, I would conclude that this is not an auspicious start for a disruptive product.

All in all it was not an auspicious day... and it got even worse.

The IoG's report offers some pointers for Liberal Democrats, but the portents are not auspicious.

Fonte left West Ham for China for this very reason, but conceding a penalty in an 8 - 0 defeat was not an auspicious debut.

Fast forward exactly seven years to 1979 - 80; apparently the 24th October is not an auspicious day for Cypriot football.

If that's not an auspicious start to lemonade season, I don't know what is.

The extension is not an auspicious sign for a deal, and the Trump administration has already said that he will «probably» end up terminating the agreement.

Not exact matches

Red bean is usually cooked for auspicious occasions and, therefore, Nestlé is not the first company to piggy - back on the ingredient's heritage — in 2009, Pepsi released an azuki - flavoured edition of its soda.

Martha Beckwith explains in Hawaiian Mythology that receiving the word from such tellers was an auspicious event, heard only by daylight, with listeners careful not, to move, lest they interrupt the power of the exchange.

That sounds really auspicious, I'm going to have to subscribe so I don't miss that one.

Owens, who learned his coaching as an assistant under Bear Bryant for six years, did not have a very auspicious beginning when he took over from Darrell Royal, an old Oklahoma teammate, in 1957.

That was an auspicious beginning, but it pales in comparison with the food depository's new goals after the not - for - profit agency on Saturday officially opened its new $ 30 million food bank and training center on the Southwest Side.

This time is auspicious for us as a people to learn from the nations that have passed through this part as the masses are expecting from this administration not just stamping out corruption but a total creation of a sustainable socio - economic prosperity.

His mishap was highlighted by Angela Eagle, shadow leader of the Commons, who told MPs: «Mr Gove hasn't had the most auspicious of starts.

«In what I don't take as a particularly auspicious sign for the day, Mr. Speaker, because we don't have a significant number of members of the mental health committee, we're going to postpone that, and instead ask for member of the veterans committee,» Morelle said.

The newest academy on the block is not off to an auspicious start.

White's academic career didn't exactly get off to an auspicious start; even his dad bet against him finishing college.

The results were even more auspicious when the investigators stratified vaccinated subjects by antibody responder status: subjects who successfully mounted an immunological response to the vaccine enjoyed statistically significant benefits as measured with the IGA, the two motor function subscales of the MDS - UPDRS, and the Parkinson's Disease Questionnaire (PDQ - 39) of quality of life (though not on the PD Non-Motor Symptoms Questionnaire (NMS - Quest / PD - NMS)-RRB-, while no benefit was observed in nonresponders on any scale (Table 1).

Going by your rules might not work because black and blue suits are regarded as funeral colors and would not be auspicious for wedding attire.

Take Spira's advice — don't be superstitious, rather, make this day auspicious, and go out and snag yourself a date on this Friday the 13th!

The fact that 2K Sports is referring to the Switch version of its basketball game as NBA 2K18 — as opposed to, say, NBA 2K Switch, or something else that doesn't follow the series» naming convention — is auspicious.

I don't subscribe to the notion that a piece of art shows its entire hand within its first ten minutes; there are plenty of quality movies with less than auspicious beginnings.

Not the most auspicious beginnings for the threequel.

Ignoring the 20 years that have elapsed since the tragic passing of N.W.A founder Eazy - E the occasion might not seem auspicious, but for anyone who has been keeping track they would hardly describe the film's release as straight out of nowhere.

Underheated and confused, the first detective thriller based on Norway's Harry Hole series can't be called an auspicious beginning.

The results are not nearly as auspicious as that other film, but Bernal and Luna are so good together that they carry the day anyway.

Portents weren't exactly auspicious for The Martian.

The movie's opening stretch, concerned primarily with Helen's grief, isn't exactly enthralling and yet the movie does benefit from its mysterious atmosphere, with the ongoing inclusion of intriguing elements (eg why is this person breaking into Helen's home, who is this individual on the phone warning her, etc, etc) undoubtedly perpetuating the auspicious vibe.

I appreciate the opportunity to portray Cyborg in this way, and to have it be such an auspicious start, but it's not something I could have predicted, at all.

Based on Mary Mapes» «Truth and Duty: The Press, The President, and the Privilege of Power» (2005), screenwriter James Vanderbilt («White House Down,» «Zodiac») makes an auspicious directing debut with this layered, detailed condemnation of how Internet obsession with minutia / gossip has obliterated the big picture — and responsible reporting can not be rushed.

But community members rallied to keep it open, in part because of its auspicious beginnings — it was the first public school for black students in Brooklyn, opening the same year that slavery ended in New York, 1827 — and in part because parents weren't convinced that a new school would solve old problems.

«Not a very auspicious beginning for such fruitful lovers, was it?»

When the intents of like and dislike arise in sensual pleasures (of 5 senses), keeping tolerance in it, (and) to not put blame on any one is dharmadhyan (auspicious contemplation; to not hurt anyone, to give happiness to others).

And I thought it was telling and auspicious that even some of the people whom I asked, but who could not contribute for one reason or another, still engaged with the idea and mentioned what their song would have been.

I'd come to realize that Haili had married him not because he was the better man, but because she'd been looking for someone who could give her a green card and an auspicious beginning in America.

It did not seem an auspicious time to make the life - changing choice of adopting a pig.

Not only is buying gold considered auspicious in Indian culture; it is also regarded as a secure investment avenue.

Since this is such an auspicious occasion, we couldn't imagine a more appropriate time for FloridaWild Veterinary Hospital to ring in Spring by proclaiming March as Avian Awareness Month!

Since this is such an auspicious occasion, we couldn't imagine...

As the American bailout gets underway, Europe stands on the precipice and the world holds its collective breath, it may not seem like the most auspicious time to head out... Read More...

Waiting to board wasn't the most auspicious of starts to my first ever Upper Class flight — we had a lady vomiting violently in the gate area with the Virgin Atlantic staff seeming somewhat indifferent to her plight.

Like most successes, it didn't quite happen overnight, although in this case the beginnings were far from auspicious.

The timing hardly seemed auspicious, yet it couldn't have been more perfect.

Google Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL did not have the most auspicious start thanks to all those launch issues, but in the camera department, they beat the competition hollow.