"It remains to be seen how strongly the U.K. government presses for Lugovoi, " said Augur.
Does that augur any hope for any flexibility in the Iranian position, do you think?
These three are all very good players, but their absences don't augur catastrophe for the Yankees.
Some Republicans are saying that that's an augur of things to come in the health debate.
But behind the as-yet-undefined specifics of American policy, there appear to lie some new assumptions that augur well for success.
These infrastructure projects augur well for Caterpillar as they will increase the demand for construction equipment and machinery manufactured by the company.
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The fraying tempers do not augur well for the faint hope that still exists of launching a new round of multilateral trade talks this year.
If anything, the quarrels over the exact nature of the Libyan plant at Rabta augur ill for even reaching consensus positions on the facts concerning such facilities.
Hedge fund manager Chaudhri thinks basic economics augur favorably: Compared with the amount of Western art sloshing around, India has a relatively small body of post-independence work.
Its comparatively high levels of education, relatively advanced social conditions, including the status of women, and a small, apolitical army, seemed to augur well for Tunisia's historic path.
But recently revised forecasts from Nokia and Samsung, the world's No. 1 and No. 2 handset makers, as well as mobile chip-set manufacturer Qualcomm, augur trouble in 2009.
In light of the slow PC growth, we feel a shifting focus to other markets is a welcome move for the company and should augur well for its outlook.
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On the other hand, his decisions to cut his own staff by 20%, to rule out tax rises and to shelve grandiose projects, including a new baseball stadium, augur well.
That companies have maintained or improved their standings or been plucked out as "winners" by Deborah Orr, the editor of our special section, doesn't necessarily augur anything for the future.
Which seems to lend support to the counter view about age: when we age, we seek to protect: Our family, our finances and our reputation do not augur risk well.
But an uptick in output does not augur prosperity.
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Yet while liberals have cheered the result as a mark of social progress, it does not necessarily augur plain sailing for the al-Sabah family that has ruled Kuwait since the 18th century.
Such a convergence of opinion should augur well for easy passage -- except that there is a competing resolution, sponsored by eight senators including the powerful majority leader and presidential candidate Bob Dole.
But in another way these patterns augur a bright future for an expansive American metropolis that, while not hostile to the urban center, recognizes that most businesses and families continue to prefer lower-density, decentralized settings.
Governments need to put the development of new NBSAPs and the signing of the Nagoya Protocol high on their list of priorities, because any delay on these fronts will augur poorly for the achievement of the Aichi Targets.
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"It's a thorny issue on both sides, especially since the U.K. has cast doubt on whether Berezovsky would receive a fair trial over there and indeed be safe, " said Global Insight's Augur, adding that it is unlikely that Lugovoi will be extradited.
Tellingly, shares of all of these banks sell at a discount to the rest of the stockmarket, notwithstanding their demonstrated resilience recently in surviving a recession and a deluge of litigation, as well as benign economic conditions that should augur well for future returns.
The broad and wide access to information does indeed augur well for greater and quicker collaboration across sectors and industries: an entire ecosystem of companies has been developed devoted to making the world as productive as the U.S. is while reducing worry about disease, drought and lack of resources.
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But if this trend in private bank money creation continues, it does augur for higher rates of monetary inflation, especially, as Chairman Bernanke suggested at Jackson Hole in August, if aided and embedded by a reduction in the rate of interest the Federal Reserve pays banks on those excess reserves.
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The results augur similar fates for other banks that have benefited in the first six months of the year from strong trading, including Lehman Bros. (nyse: LEH - news - people ), Bear Stearns (nyse: BSC - news - people ) and Morgan Stanley (nyse: MS - news - people ), all of which will report in the coming days their fiscal third quarters ending in August.
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