(n.) The art or practice of foretelling events by observing the actions of birds, etc.; divination.
(n.) An omen; prediction; prognostication; indication of the future; presage.
(n.) A rite, ceremony, or observation of an augur.
Example Sentences:
(1) Almost instantly after the restart Pozuelo was allowed to dance forward before unloading an effort in what proved an augury of Swansea's grandstand finish.
(2) Even though the remnants of his political career may depend on winning this referendum, the auguries are not good.
(3) But the auguries of the imminent government spending review all suggest that the cuts will fall disproportionately upon those already most economically disadvantaged.
(4) This had arrived as early as 28 seconds as the first augury of Brazil's soured dream.
(5) Or perhaps not: even their own people have acknowledged that they face disaster in next month's European and local elections , which would cap a run of electoral disasters and thus highlight grim auguries for the general election.
(6) Those in search of a positive augury for Moyes and United had to reach back 30 years for the last time a 2-0 deficit was overturned in Europe.
(7) When a right whale was harpooned to death at Deptford in 1658, it was seen as an augury of the death of the dictator Oliver Cromwell.
(8) The City, meanwhile, is brimming with both good cheer and grim auguries.
(9) Wolfsburg’s Bas Dost and Max Kruse do enough to see off PSV Eindhoven Read more The sight of Phil Jones launching a hopeful high ball to Martial that missed the Frenchman was hardly the best augury that United might be about to find an equaliser with precision football.
(10) This is an unhappy augury for the future dental health of Nigeria.
(11) If, on this most popular and painfully human question, she will give no inch, that’s a terrible augury for how she intends to conduct these negotiations, opening with a war cry to all 27 countries: we hold your people hostage.
(12) "The [UMP] leaders have deliberately refused to execute a judicial order ... in politics, contempt for the justice system is a pretty bad augury for the quality of leaders," said Fillon's lawyer François Sureau.
Behaviour
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) These channels may, at least in some cases, be responsible for the generation of pacemaker depolarizations, thereby regulating firing behaviour.
(2) The stages of mourning involve cognitive learning of the reality of the loss; behaviours associated with mourning, such as searching, embody unlearning by extinction; finally, physiological concomitants of grief may influence unlearning by direct effects on neurotransmitters or neurohormones, such as cortisol, ACTH, or norepinephrine.
(3) The behaviour of DAO suggests that the enzyme plays an important role in the control of intracellular diamine concentration.
(4) This suggests that hypothalamic NPY might be involved in food choice and that PVNp is important in the regulation of feeding behaviour by NPY.
(5) Once the temperature rises above 28C, shoppers' behaviour changes in all kinds of ways, according to Jones.
(6) This study provides strong and unexpected evidence that one admission to hospital of more than a week's duration or repeated admissions before the age of five years (in particular between six months and four years) are associated with an increased risk of behaviour disturbance and poor reading in adolescence.
(7) For this to work, its leaders had to be able to at least influence the behaviour and tactics of the militant operators on the ground.
(8) Socio-economic improvement or behavioural changes appear necessary for the control of trachoma in endemic areas.
(9) Isolates showed a decrease in the intensity of apomorphine-induced stereotyped behaviours but no change in stereotypy induced by AMPH.
(10) "With the advent of sophisticated data-processing capabilities (including big data), the big number-crunchers can detect, model and counter all manner of online activities just by detecting the behavioural patterns they see in the data and adjusting their tactics accordingly.
(11) There were no significant effects of chlordiazepoxide treatment on the behaviour of subordinate rats.
(12) Malema has distorted his leftwing credentials with outrageous behaviour.
(13) Pupils who disrupt the learning of their classmates are dealt with firmly and, in many cases, a short suspension is an effective way of nipping bad behaviour in the bud."
(14) The influence of mucin on the corrosion behaviour of seven typical dental casting alloys was investigated.
(15) That the BBC has probably not been as vulnerable since the 1980s is also true – not least because the enemies of impartiality are more powerful, and the BBC's competitors (maimed after a year's exposure of their own behaviour in the Leveson inquiry ) are keen to wreck it.
(16) The behaviour of the enzyme from Candida utilis and from Baker's yeast on columns of these and of Blue Sepharose CL-6B was examined, together with the behaviour of the contaminating enzyme, ribulose 5-phosphate 3-epimerase (EC 5.1.3.1).
(17) Early views of the Type A behaviour pattern (TABP) sought to disengage it from either neuroticism or emotional distress.
(18) Males exploit this behavioural switch by increasing their sneaky mating attempts.
(19) There was no evidence of a response to the specific behavioural suggestion during the postoperative interview.
(20) Scientists at the University of Trento, Italy, have discovered that the way a dog's tail moves is linked to its mood, and by observing each other's tails, dogs can adjust their behaviour accordingly .