(a.) A divining or taking of omens by observing birds; an omen as to an undertaking, drawn from birds; an augury; an omen or sign in general; an indication as to the future.
(a.) Protection; patronage and care; guidance.
Example Sentences:
(1) Under the auspices of the US-USSR agreement for cooperative research in environmental health, Soviet methods for setting and enforcing standards for environmental pollutants were observed.
(2) A questionnaire was prepared under the auspices of the Department of Health with the aim of defining the extent and nature of immunocytochemistry use within pathology departments.
(3) 'If you meet, you drink …' Thus introduced to intoxicating liquors under auspices both secular and sacred, the offering of alms for oblivion I took to be the custom of the country in which I had been born.
(4) Project-initiated, low-cost mammography in one town and the unanticipated provision of free mammography services in another town under nonproject auspices permitted a comparison to be made between these towns and towns where mammography screening was provided at the prevailing fees to determine the impact that cost has on physicians' referral of women patients for mammography.
(5) Under the auspices of the Welsh Standing Specialist Advisory Working Group in Microbiology (WMG) 10 clinical microbiology laboratories in Wales undertook a collaborative study to assess 10 commercial kits for the identification of aerobic Gram negative bacilli.
(6) In order to examine the levels of serum selenium in Europe, a collaborative study was conducted under the auspices of "The Working Group on Diet and Cancer" under "The European Organisation for Cooperation in Cancer Prevention Studies".
(7) The study was carried out between 1982 and 1986 under the auspices of the Pompidou Group of the Council of Europe.
(8) In a press conference yesterday Ponomarev insisted that the European military observers working under the auspices of Germany's foreign ministry were engaged in espionage.
(9) He told the court in an affidavit that the withdrawal of care by the department, which has rated him 100% permanently disabled and thus eligible for all medical treatment under its auspices, has meant he now has to travel 130 miles from his home to see a doctor for pain relief.
(10) In Somalia, efforts are under way under the auspices of the UN to draw up a constituent assembly, an independent electoral commission, a new federal structure and a smaller parliament with greater representation for women.
(11) This has been the rationale for the present efforts by investigators to form a standardized environmental inventory questionnaire, under the auspices of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Gas Research Institute (GRI), and Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI).
(12) This was a time when the publication of an anthology launched under the council's auspices was hardly calculated to produce favour- able reviews, however illustrious the editor.
(13) Ignoring the primacy of clinical commissioning groups, it imposed urgent care boards across the country, under the auspices of its local area teams, charged with rapidly producing plans to sort out A&E.
(14) Ostensibly, Ukip’s binding principle was a belief in Britain’s exit from the European Union, a process that has now begun under Tory auspices.
(15) The formation of a Registry for severe hereditary AAT deficiency in the United States, under the auspices of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute of the NIH, is also described.
(16) The totally implantable Novacor LVAS is being tested under NIH auspices to demonstrate safety and efficacy before clinical trials.
(17) This workshop, organized under the auspices of the EC Concerted Action Programme on DNA Repair and Cancer, was held at the CRC Gray Laboratory, Northwood, Middlesex, UK, 23-25 October 1991.
(18) To bring together an update on research in this area, a workshop was held in March at the National Institutes of Health, sponsored by the advisory Breast Cancer Working Group and the Breast Cancer Program of the National Cancer Institutes (Dr. Elizabeth Anderson, Program Director) through the auspices of the Organ Systems Coordinating Center (at Roswell Park Memorial Institute, Dr. Clement Ip, Scientific Administrator).
(19) The act was the result of a private member’s bill introduced by the late Malcolm Wicks MP, and leaves an appropriate legacy on the statute books from a man who, prior to entering parliament in 1992, had a long career in research, particularly around family care, under the auspices of the Family Policy Studies Centre.
(20) This article describes the development and operation of a statewide, publicly funded anti-tobacco use campaign currently undertaken by the California Department of Health Services under the auspices of the state's Tobacco Tax and Health Promotion Act of 1988 (Proposition 99), which increased excise taxes on cigarettes by 25 cents per pack sold in the state.
Auspicious
Definition:
(a.) Having omens or tokens of a favorable issue; giving promise of success, prosperity, or happiness; predicting good; as, an auspicious beginning.
(a.) Prosperous; fortunate; as, auspicious years.
(a.) Favoring; favorable; propitious; -- applied to persons or things.
Example Sentences:
(1) Their search has not enjoyed the most auspicious of starts with Rodgers, who recently signed a one-year rolling contract at Celtic, having distanced himself from the position and the West Ham co-chairman David Gold ruling out Bilic leaving.
(2) This morning didn’t get off to an auspicious start.
(3) Sales of PCs were down in the fourth quarter, reflecting customer disinterest and setting off alarm bells among investors that the future was not auspicious.
(4) If timing is everything in life, then Adam Crozier, who takes over as ITV's chief executive today, is arriving at arguably its most auspicious point for a decade.
(5) Nevertheless, it is the place where a new life form develops and it is considered auspicious.
(6) More than 400 of the world's 9,000 female parliamentarians gathered in Brussels last week on an auspicious anniversary.
(7) Her feature film debut was auspicious and striking – she played the sassy buddy of Jonah Hill in Superbad – and rapidly followed it with roles in The Rocker and The House Bunny .
(8) The former Manchester United and Everton star, whose elder brother Gary has forged a successful career as soccer pundit while on England's coaching staff, got off to a far less auspicious start as co-commentator and analyst.
(9) Demand is predicted to hold up this year, even though the rupee has weakened and there will be fewer auspicious days in India than in 2011 – days marked out in the Hindu calendar as lucky for events such as marriage, buying and selling.
(10) Nine out of 10 People born in the year of the sheep do not find happiness in their lives, according to Chinese myth, and anecdotal evidence says that many families delay having children until a more auspicious year rolls around.
(11) As the pilot launch of the National hit the streets on Monday morning – from Herald and Sunday Herald publisher Newsquest – less charitable observers were suggesting that launching at a political party’s hoolie might not have been the most auspicious of starts for an organ that insists it will not be a mouthpiece for the SNP.
(12) More recently, hijras have been seen as auspicious and are often asked to bless celebrations such as marriages and births.
(13) T he moment that changed James Watt’s life – his beer epiphany, which he recalls with surprising (or well-rehearsed) precision – did not arrive in the most auspicious venue: “It was a Sierra Nevada Pale Ale from the States, bought at Tesco’s in Stonehaven, to wash down some fish and chips.
(14) Their external sex-organs are the first to initiate reproduction and both are considered auspicious.
(15) Others draw strength from the widespread practice of interpreting what are seen as auspicious signs.
(16) Now Alex Iwobi made an auspicious first league start, garnished with a goal.
(17) 2 The leader amongst the diners then adds the remaining ingredients, making auspicious wishes as each ingredient is added or pointed out: raw fish for abundance, lime for good luck, five spice and pepper for good fortune, sweet sauce for a honeyed year, white radish for success, carrot for eminence, ginger for good luck, oil for good fortune and luck, peanuts for prosperity, crackers for prosperity and gold, and pomelo for luck and auspicious value.
(18) For those entering Britain in search of a better life, it is hardly an auspicious place to disembark.
(19) But despite the auspiciousness of the morning, there was no doubting its sombreness.
(20) Although the past has been auspicious, the future promises even more for the continued growth of Physiatry and the Physiatrist.