I had heard of it before — its auspicious significance.
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The beginning of her series could be considered quite auspicious.
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The Olympics haven't exactly gotten off to an auspicious start.
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Headphones did not have the most auspicious start to 22018.
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As love stories go, it was an extremely auspicious start.
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It was also an auspicious occasion for the Kushner family.
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I checked my horoscope; the day was auspicious for love.
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Jeter's first game as a player also was not auspicious.
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The position, however, did offer moments that now seem auspicious.
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That wedding 100 years ago sounds like an auspicious beginning.
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All in all, this is a very masterly, auspicious debut.
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The auspicious Hindu festival sees many people light crackers in celebration.
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The timing of the Kaisers' initiative proved auspicious in two ways.
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The visit did not get off to a very auspicious start.
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Mr. Bush did not get off to the most auspicious start.
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Once "Dolly" ended its run in 1970, that connection proved auspicious.
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It was not a very auspicious sign for peace or security.
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Still, a deal would extend Sinclair's reach at an auspicious time.
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And the first snowfall of the Lunar New Year is considered auspicious.
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"The timing is not auspicious for the work against ISIS," he said.
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That precedent is not as auspicious for Democrats as it might appear.
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Gordon and Nanies's auspicious wedding date was set by local Javanese mystics.
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But someone else came into our lives with very auspicious timing: Cheese.
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This did not seem like an auspicious start to Jess's matchmaking career.
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Transgender women, known as hijras, have long been considered auspicious in India.
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As Natalia Dubinina explained, the Russians were off to an auspicious start.
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Timing is not particularly auspicious for India to be making trade deals.
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The work was an auspicious success at its 1938 premiere in Prague.
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It was an auspicious ending to what had been a stilted day.
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Which, in hindsight, does make balding seem an auspicious, wisdom-giving burden.
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Andrew Sondern/The New York Times It wasn't exactly an auspicious start.
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The timing hardly seemed auspicious, yet it couldn't have been more perfect.
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Auspicious days are important for weddings, and weddings are important for jewelry demand.
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Most Indian weddings are held on days considered auspicious in the Hindu calendar.
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Alas, some have since split up, so it may not be that auspicious.
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This probability is slightly more auspicious for the Democrats than prevailing opinion suggests.
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The auspicious outing marked the first time the two appeared in public together.
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"You feel like you're going somewhere auspicious when you go there," he said.
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And as it turns out, it's quite an auspicious symbol in Chinese culture.
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Using his phone, Halfdan had gathered data indicating that the spot was auspicious.
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Plotwise, we're left in a pretty auspicious place for Eden to blow up.
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Spotify would be coming to the public stock markets at an auspicious time.
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This auspicious form has earned Han the attention of even more big clubs.
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That we could be quiet together so soon, and without strain, felt auspicious.
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However, some witches and astrologers consider the day to be an auspicious one.
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Like many shows at 106 Green, this is an auspicious and accomplished debut.
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"Every Future Has a Price: 30 Years After Infotainment" is an auspicious beginning.
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This is not an auspicious start to the development of the sixth climate assessment.
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A curiously auspicious beginning...we've never seen all 8 color blocks to start before.
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And this summer will be a most auspicious occasion for the famous Red Planet.
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Some are even taking the kiss as an auspicious sign for the new year.
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Last quarter there were only seven auspicious days compared with 22 a year ago.
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Last week, Indians celebrated the Akshaya Tritiya festival, when buying gold is considered auspicious.
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It features sculptures of mythical creatures and auspicious animals such as lions and elephants.
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A less auspicious precedent has also been mentioned as a template for North Korea.
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ALL WAS auspicious for the start of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty.
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IT SEEMS hardly an auspicious time to release a book on Britain's Olympic success.
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This shifted her practice from unraveling a sordid history, to weaving an auspicious future.
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Indians will celebrate Akshaya Tritiya on May 7, when buying gold is considered auspicious.
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HALLE, Germany — On paper, it was Roger Federer's least auspicious Wimbledon preparation in years.
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This might not seem like an auspicious moment to revisit the federal tax code.
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Only one startup will claim the auspicious title of Startup Battlefield Africa 2018 champion.
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Not normally an auspicious sign, the evening's wet weather was ideal for our purposes.
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After his auspicious introduction to the drink, Shea became an unabashed hard-seltzer enthusiast.
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McDermott & McGough chose an auspicious day on which to unveil their tribute: September 11.
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The idea of an indestructible man in central Harlem arrives at an auspicious time.
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This year's March for Life comes at an auspicious time in the abortion debate.
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Less auspicious was Mr. van Zweden's conducting on Wednesday night at David Geffen Hall.
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Despite this less-than-auspicious start to her new vocation, she wasn&apost discouraged.
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For that reason, FRIdays were considered to be an auspicious day to get married.
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The occasion could not come at a more auspicious moment for the Socialist party.
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To Franzoni, it was more than an auspicious way to start the new year.
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The Quinnipiac survey, more auspicious for Democrats than others lately, is just one poll.
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It's an auspicious dessert, mostly eaten during the winter solstice or Chinese New Year.
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If they go down the impeachment trail of tears, Greg, it will not be auspicious.
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Indians will celebrate Akshay Tritiya festival in mid-April, when buying gold is considered auspicious.
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On Sunday, Indians will celebrate the Gudi Padwa festival, when buying gold is considered auspicious.
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It was the kind of auspicious start that fueled plenty of skepticism about his candidacy.
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Now Disney has revealed when that auspicious date will be — or at least, the season.
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Because Cu Rua seldom came up to the surface, sightings were rare and deemed auspicious.
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Indians will also celebrate Akshaya Tritiya on May 7, when buying gold is considered auspicious.
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James Mattis, Trump's pick for Defense secretary, coming into the administration suggests an auspicious future.
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" As for their less-than-auspicious origins, she said, "there was zero discussion around that.
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Elizabeth Warren unveiled her package of anti-corruption reforms last week at an auspicious moment.
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Activists hope a high turnout in a presidential election will be auspicious for these efforts.
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Your mind will feel especially sharp, and this will be an auspicious time for communication.
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A basket of tangerines—an auspicious fruit symbolizing fortune and luck—sits on the table.
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May's auspicious lineup could elevate your standards, helping you draw even better options your way.
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This is one of 2016's most auspicious days for taking a chance on romance.
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Venmo entered our lives during a very auspicious time: We had just moved in together.
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In the mid-1960s, journalism provided the most auspicious path for an enterprising young photographer.
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Though courts had already ruled against him several times, it seemed like an auspicious moment.
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The number of lucky bamboo is very important: the number three is the most auspicious.
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The journey doesn't have an auspicious beginning, either for the brothers or for the audience.
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As important as it became, the original Monterey Pop did not have terribly auspicious beginnings.
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This year is the Year of the Monkey, which means an auspicious bearing of SSE.
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"If this works, this is an auspicious signal, would be an auspicious signal, that our policy objective - the objective that I think so many of us share, of getting these guys out of Syria ultimately - that there's a path in that direction," the official said.
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The journal was a gift, an auspicious start to my year of cutting out superfluous spending.
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But, one eclectic villain's auspicious return might help us get some answers to our burning questions.
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On Wednesday, Indians celebrated the annual festival of Akshaya Tritiya, when buying gold is considered auspicious.
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Some species were considered auspicious symbols, while others represent the exotic creatures that populated imperial zoos.
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A song cycle based on his novel "Manuscript Found in Accra," it is an auspicious collaboration.
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This year Indians celebrated both the festivals - for which buying gold is considered auspicious - last month.
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There were many things that made 22012 an auspicious year for the launch of Fox News.
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Triplets are taken from their parents and raised by the state because they are considered auspicious.
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This, Schulman said, is why she believes simple spaces are the most auspicious environments for children.
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It is not an auspicious start to the championship, but Frederiksen, the local director, is unperturbed.
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Our past U.S. assistance has helped to bring Colombia to this auspicious point in its history.
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Certainly, dropping out of college proved an auspicious decision for Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Michael Dell.
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Not an auspicious beginning — but he ended up investing once he figured out what we actually did!
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For some people, the most auspicious way to start a new month is by uttering those words.
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She brought handfuls of dates and wanted to know which dates were auspicious and which were inauspicious.
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For Matthew Rose in Atlanta, the vexing search for tickets finally took an auspicious turn in May.
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Here's the $924,000 blue marlin that weighed in at 881 pounds and was reeled in on Auspicious.
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"Even as we hope for a more auspicious future of liberty, prosperity and peace for the nation."
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Among the most auspicious of those joint efforts was the proliferation of money as a coordinating technology.
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For example: The last time Jaime Lannister met Bran Stark was ... not auspicious for either of them.
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In Chinese lobster is called long xia, or dragon prawn, which has an auspicious ring to it.
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This month Indians will celebrate the annual festival of Akshaya Tritiya, when buying gold is considered auspicious.
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In the end, 2016 shaped up to be an especially auspicious year on the cute-couples front.
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In addition to coinciding births with religious festivals, couples also opt to deliver children on auspicious days.
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The staff in my office joke about which of our windows would be most auspicious for jumping.
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Lentils and sausage are a common Italian theme, and, for the New Year, lentils are considered auspicious.
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" 2016: Year of the Monkey "The peony is a very auspicious flower that symbolizes wealth and honor.
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" 2011: Year of the Rabbit "Cumquats and other citrus fruits are very auspicious in the New Year.
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On this auspicious occasion for the show, tell your friends about your smart friendly friend, Today, Explained.
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While "Animal House" was probably her best-known role, "Medium Cool" offered Ms. Bloom an auspicious beginning.
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I sleep in my surfing pug socks all the time, a decision I consider both cozy and auspicious.
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Even so, the current moment is perhaps the most auspicious one in decades for reining in partisan gerrymandering.
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The choice of Saudi Arabia as the first leg of his first foreign visit is far from auspicious.
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An auspicious rainbow appeared over Andrews Air Force Base as Mr Trudeau's motorcade arrived for the flight home.
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The most auspicious part of that effort was the news that Snap would sell its own hardware: Spectacles.
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But Jackson's career has not necessarily gone the way his teammates might have expected after that auspicious debut.
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The 100-year-old mystic creature lived in Hanoi's Hoan Kiem lake and a sighting was considered auspicious.
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It was June 23rd again — that auspicious day — that started the beginning of the end of the war.
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The ceremony, which banishes negativity and invites in light and optimism, is intended to mark an auspicious beginning.
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We want to know more about these people and what has brought them together for this auspicious occasion.
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They still believe that it was the baby and his auspicious birth timing that brought about their riches.
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It was an auspicious choice: It allowed him to study in Italy and begin his personal dolce vita.
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With that kind of auspicious origin story, how could they be anything but dark, cosmic, and utterly addictive?
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With only six nominations total, it's one of the less nominated Best Picture candidates, rarely an auspicious position.
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It was only last year that this charismatic conductor, then 46, made her auspicious New York Philharmonic debut.
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When it came to Colton Underwood getting to know girlfriend Cassie Randolph's family, it wasn't exactly an auspicious start.
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The trailer starts out with Mulan's family delivering the news that a matchmaker has found her an auspicious match.
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It's also an auspicious day for creatives — get in touch with your inner maker and listen to your instincts.
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This is also an auspicious time for work, getting things crossed off your to-do list, and getting organized.
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This year however, there is a lack of auspicious wedding days, also known as Vivah Shubh Muhurat, in May.
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Vinyl even managed to outsell digital downloads in some markets, including the UK during one auspicious week in 2016.
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Fallout 76: Nuclear Winter – As the company noted, Fallout 76 didn't get off to the most auspicious of starts.
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Not ones to let such an auspicious happenstance pass them by, Crissman and Poe formed their first collaborative effort.
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That should be an auspicious occasion, one we might otherwise mark with some private moment of satisfaction, even celebration.
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Indians celebrated the annual Hindu and Jain festival of Akshaya Tritiya on Tuesday, when buying gold is considered auspicious.
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Red doors are an iconic symbol of Elizabeth Arden, and they are also auspicious symbols in the Chinese culture.
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I started this job on the day that Superstart, a new product, started shipping, which I took as auspicious.
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All told, it both was and was not an auspicious moment to open a restaurant in a gateway town.
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That Julian Woodhouse, 26, is talented made the kickoff of another local fashion cycle seem all the more auspicious.
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It's an auspicious start for Inoue, but Donaire winds up landing his hook on the inside only moments later.
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Indians celebrated the annual Hindu and Jain festival of Akshaya Tritiya in May, when buying gold is considered auspicious.
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This Tuesday, celestial sweethearts Mars and Venus sweep into an auspicious 120-degree angle, also known as a trine.
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As such, its time-stretching effect feels auspicious: a giddy suggestion of the shape of Daft Punk to come.
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It was such an auspicious occasion for the country that the next day was immediately declared a national holiday.
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But Volkswagen has been struggling to perfect the software in the ID.3 That is not an auspicious sign.
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The day of their first meeting, rendered as a cardplayer might do it —11/1/11— was exceptionally auspicious.
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Rather, they have cast themselves as a vehicle for the advent of the 10th reign, and another auspicious era.
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But there are 24 other people in the crop — Jennifer Lawrence is one, and Jack Black — and it's auspicious.
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He later discovered that wearing a ring on one's little finger is considered by some Indians to be auspicious.
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For example, triplets are regarded as auspicious in North Korea and so are given to the state to raise.
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And just two days later, Santtu-Matias Rouvali — born 60 miles north, in Lahti — made an auspicious Philharmonic debut.
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With Bar Code, his first publication in a newspaper or magazine, I'd say he's off to an auspicious start.
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The timing of the hospital alert was auspicious; the researchers were already in Las Vegas for a hacking conference.
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So, on this auspicious anniversary, it is time to take the board on a stroll down governance memory lane.
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Transgender women, known as hijras, have long been considered auspicious, and their blessings are sought at weddings and births.
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It was an auspicious start, and Web traffic soon soared to more than ten million unique visitors a month.
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As the vessels glided over the Chao Phraya River, Thais dressed in the auspicious color yellow watched with reverence.
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Mr. Miller gave Ms. Pelosi an auspicious introduction: "You're going to meet Nancy Pelosi," Mr. Schumer recalls him saying.
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His initial, lukewarm endorsement of Bush — during which, inexplicably, he mispronounced his vice president's last name — was not auspicious.
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The Dream Book was a long list of dreams that were believed to be either auspicious or bad omens, and they'd gotten a kick out of reading examples, one of which Danielle remembered: auspicious—if a man sees himself sawing wood in a dream, it is a sign that his enemies are dead .
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THE HINDU festival of Akshaya Tritiya, celebrated on May 22019th this year, is considered an auspicious time to buy gold.
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It was physically grueling, involving lots of burns and backaches; not an auspicious option for a long-term day job.
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Still, the unusual absence of auspicious wedding dates in May this year may not be sufficient to prevent rupee weakness.
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To know whether a day is auspicious, Bhutanese now consult not monks but smartphone apps or the state broadcaster's website.
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Celebrities are no exception, and when it comes to the auspicious day, both they and their fans roll with it.
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While analysts now see fourth-quarter earnings growth of 16.6 percent, the outlook for the current quarter is less auspicious.
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THE second presidency of Sebastián Piñera, a billionaire businessman turned politician, will begin on March 11th in seemingly auspicious circumstances.
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With the bright and auspicious track "Love," which features grandiose instrumentals, there is another marker of Del Rey less burdened.
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Jerry Angelo, the general manager of the Bears when they chose Forte, sees slippage despite that auspicious beginning this year.
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For Indians who subscribe to Vedic astrology, this configuration is auspicious, lending promise to human endeavors scheduled on those days.
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Despite an auspicious 1948 premiere and some powerful champions, this exhilarating work slipped between the cracks and never caught on.
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As tradition dictates, it is in the kaja-kangin corner of the site: the northeast, which is the most auspicious.
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On the 2nd, the moon, lucky Jupiter, and seductive Pluto assemble into a rare and auspicious configuration called a trine.
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Word of the Day : auguring favorable circumstances and good luck _________ The word auspicious has appeared in 68 articles on nytimes.
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Her father beamed at the bright green shoots blanketing the flooded fields and credited his luck to the auspicious timing.
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With its promise of new beginnings, fresh starts, all that, New Year's Eve is supposed to feel auspicious and meaningful.
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Overnight tonight, the New Horizons spacecraft will fly by a small world called Ultima Thule — an auspicious beginning to 2019.
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An auspicious young talent, she comes to jazz via the church and performed for years in the Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir.
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Student council president Miyuki is from a less auspicious family but is one of the most popular students at school.
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"Warner Brothers wants to keep Bradley Cooper, who just had this incredibly auspicious directorial debut, in the fold," Buchanan said.
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But after an auspicious start to last season, when he won his first 17 matches, Federer seemed to trail off.
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This is an exhibition approachable by those of all ages, and marks a auspicious start for a new Harlem arts institution.
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In the late '80s, for example, the government switched the currency from units of 10 to nine, a more auspicious number.
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" Yet Steyerl's work likely wouldn't have felt so sharp and auspicious if we weren't mostly looking past "what we already know.
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In China, however, red is auspicious and so is the colour for stocks that make gains; green is for the losers.
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But I don't expect Cook to ignore the elephant in the room: He'll mark the auspicious occasion of the iPhone's birth.
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As she explained to PEOPLE in 2014, her love of skating traces back to an auspicious encounter during a friend's birthday.
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The colour red is believed by the Chinese to be auspicious and will help ward off evil spirits and bad fortune.
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What should have been an auspicious start as an adult led to some of the most difficult times in Walton's life.
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October marks the start of the Indian wedding season, brought on by a string of auspicious dates in the Hindu calendar.
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The family bought Shanghai Mong, a restaurant at 30 West 32nd Street, because of its high-traffic location — and auspicious name.
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Calling for repeal of the discriminatory Indiana name-change law would be a far more auspicious way to begin the administration.
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Finally, "Portrait of Sheila" is the auspicious 1963 debut by Sheila Jordan, the first Blue Note album by a jazz singer.
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"Holla at Me Baby" is Khaled's auspicious debut posse cut, with a lineup that is frankly incredible to ponder in 2017.
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L after the post-Brexit drop in the pound was "auspicious", although the companies had been in talks for some time.
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This popular company, founded by the former New York City Ballet principal Benjamin Millepied, returns to Chelsea with two auspicious programs.
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The last concert of the first Issue residency was an auspicious night; we had formed a real band at that point.
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NYC Another auspicious offering — and more close encounters — for those not averse to taking a (highly) active role in their entertainment.
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Vegas is only beginning to shape its legacy with an auspicious beginning, but Winnipeg's complex playoff history spans leagues and franchises.
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In a letter to Massachusetts Representative Ayanna Pressley, the bureau confirmed it would produce that data in a highly auspicious form.
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Johnson-Weld 2016 brings auspicious new days ahead and may be taking the first intrepid steps to the brave new America.
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Like the spores of the real fungus, the image of the auspicious one spread far and wide, mushrooming in countless forms.
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The number studying languages, which often have a historical component, has fallen by a fifth—hardly an auspicious start for "global Britain".
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Officials say his birthday, December 5th, will remain a public holiday; this year's celebrations will include the auspicious assembly of 999 monks.
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Nazario-Cranz's hiring comes at an auspicious time for Waymo, which is poised to launch its first driverless service later this year.
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Often on this auspicious day, writer and destroyer of your innocence J.K. Rowling tweets an apology for killing off your beloved characters.
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That direct line of communication between Tehran and Washington is one of the many auspicious byproducts of the nuclear deal with Iran.
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Ms. Thompson, a veteran of the Ivoryton Playhouse's River Rep days, is making her Goodspeed debut, and an auspicious one it is.
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Books of The Times Kaitlyn Greenidge's terrifically auspicious debut novel, "We Love You, Charlie Freeman," begins with a deceptively high-concept premise.
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On Sunday, bountiful Jupiter and fiscal wizard Pluto team up for the second of two auspicious trines (120-degree angle) in 2016.
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Now, in advance of 2017, Democrats couldn't help thinking it auspicious that exactly 43 of those Republican delegates came from Clinton districts.
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Detroit, however, did not make the playoffs this season despite an auspicious start when they won three of their first four games.
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One tidbit: He bumped up the price tag, which he'd calculated at $419 a share, to $420 because it was more auspicious.
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"Turmeric is auspicious and one of the most important herbs," said Anupama Kizhakkeveettil, a board member of the National Ayurvedic Medical Association.
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Circumstances look a lot more auspicious than the last time Rupert Murdoch and his family tried to consolidate the business, in 2010.
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Confident that his dream would be realized within months, he jokingly asked what might be an "auspicious" day for a swearing-n.
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His approach worked, judging by the plush, enveloping sounds and impressive execution he drew from the Philharmonic players in an auspicious debut.
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Learn what worked for these Stern grads and what you should do to boost your chances of getting into this auspicious school.
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It's an auspicious beginning, one that indicates this version of The L Word dares go to places its groundbreaking predecessor did not.
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It's also an auspicious moment to teach your children to question any story that insists on certain roles for boys and girls.
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According to Fisher, addresses with "8's," an auspicious number, and environments with feng shui have appeal, but these are ancillary considerations.
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Bernhard was one of the first to take advantage, although his introduction to the liquor a decade previously was less than auspicious.
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Der Klassiker had an auspicious start for visiting side Borussia Dortmund, as Bayern Munich ran up two goals in only 10 minutes.
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Demand in the country is expected to pick up further in the festival season beginning in September, when buying gold is considered auspicious.
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Heidi Schreck's arresting "What the Constitution Means to Me", off-Broadway at the New York Theatre Workshop, also benefits from grimly auspicious timing.
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Well-wishers were dressed predominantly in pink -- an auspicious color believed to restore health -- and yellow, which is the color of the King.
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It's also auspicious for Convoy, notes Lewis, noting that Convoy now gets access to Y Combinator's sprawling network of both alums and mentors.
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Last year, Pyongyang attempted to launch a Musudan missile on April 15, an auspicious date on which millions celebrate Kim II Sung's birthday.
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She acknowledged her auspicious win on , saying, "Thank you for choosing me to be your congresswoman and trusting me with your voice #WeMadeHistory."
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Knowing that, it's an auspicious name to assume for yourself, but Cook's demonstrated some of the timeline-disrupting powers of an extraterrestrial explorer.
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It was not an auspicious start for The Rain, a band of layabouts in their 20s who couldn't even afford a microphone stand.
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And therein lies the concern that my neurotic mind dwells upon on auspicious occasions like today's, the 50th anniversary of the Beatles' Sgt.
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In Eastern cultures, the metal is an integral part of auspicious occasions like marriages and festivals by way of gifts and sacred rituals.
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Demand usually strengthens at the end of the year, driven by the wedding season and major festivals, when bullion buying is considered auspicious.
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Early in January, Emma Watson announced that she was embarking on an auspicious mission: to start (and stick to) a feminist book club.
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It was not an auspicious start for Bryce Carlson, who was setting out from Canada to row across the North Atlantic by himself.
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According to some witches and astrologers, the number 13 is auspicious — we have 13 full moons and 13 menstrual cycles in a year.
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As soon as the gong was banged to launch trading, the shares soared from HK$176 to the auspicious price of HK$113.
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ACROSTIC — It's the very first acrostic of the year, which lends this excerpt, from a venerable novelist and essayist, a particularly auspicious quality.
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Festive shopping is a big boost for Indian businesses as the period is considered auspicious for buying goods like jewelry, clothes, automobiles and houses.
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And while the pair's marriage may come with a 24-year age gap, its beginnings were still less auspicious than Trump's relationship with Maples.
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Well, the auspicious date marks the 20th anniversary of two of the most sexually charged and provocative films of all time: Crash and Bound.
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No less auspicious a food tastemaker than Whole Foods named water lily seeds as one of the top 10 new food trends of 2019.
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"Not an auspicious sign for what Biegun has ahead of him," Lindsey Ford, a former Asia security specialist at the Defense Department, told me.
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Most weddings in India are held on days considered auspicious in the Hindu calendar – nearly a quarter of them fell this year between Nov.
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The monk's role is to match the right doll to the right parent and select the doll's "birthday" on date auspicious for the parent.
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One of the most auspicious of Chinese New Year treats is jian due, balls of fluffy sweet rice dough coated in golden sesame seeds.
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The war was starting to wind down, and, with protests raging at home, it was not an auspicious time to be a military man.
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This Sunday is November 11, an auspicious date within the Chinese tech community because it marks Singles' Day, the world's largest online shopping day.
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Does Estelle's status as the auspicious star mean she has to be so thinly drawn as a character, her motivations and actions so inscrutable?
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It's there in the name even, their auspicious choice of colors to end, apparently, their long-running tradition of naming their records after pigments.
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On Saturday, learn about auspicious plants at the Queens Botanical Garden or the Asian roots of the wild dog at the Prospect Park Zoo.
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Consequently, the conditions have never been more auspicious for the United States to strangle the regime and achieve its foreign policy goals in Venezuela.
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The Chinese character for roosters (鸡, jī) is, phonetically, the same as the word for auspicious (吉, jí) and opportunity (机会，jī huì).
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As the smiling couple entered the shrine, the crowd shouted their congratulations with the Japanese word "Banzai" -- meaning an auspicious wish for long life.
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Locally known as hijras, members of India's transgender community traditionally perform at births and marriages as their singing and dancing is believed to be auspicious.
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Not the most auspicious start for a paid product, and one that's already spurring debate about whether or not it can help the news industry.
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To pose for the cameras recording her triumph, she is given a lobster and a red sea-bream—auspicious celebratory props often used by politicians.
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Buffett was fortunate to begin investing at such an auspicious time, which shortly predated a stunning wartime run-up in America's debt-to-GDP ratio.
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We checked in with eight — also an auspicious number — stylish folks in Singapore to find out how they'll be wearing red during the festive period.
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The cosmic cash cow is mooing loudly on Wednesday, when lucky Jupiter and fiscal wizard Pluto team up in an auspicious trine (120-degree angle).
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In technical terms, the two planets form an auspicious 120-degree angle called a trine, which only happens a few times (if that) each year.
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She also makes, in the Playwrights Horizons production that opened on Sunday under the exuberant direction of Leah C. Gardiner, an auspicious professional playwriting debut.
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The United States was in an auspicious position, especially after the border war of 1969 showed just how much Beijing and Moscow feared each other.
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It was an auspicious choice: The curves, handle, lid, and spout of the teapot all conspired to make it an ideal object for graphical experiment.
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India celebrated Diwali and Dhanteras last week, some of the busiest gold-buying days in the country, when demand peaks because gold is considered auspicious.
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In some ways, though, Mickelson had the more auspicious start to his career, winning his first PGA Tour title when he was still an amateur.
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Demand usually jumps in December quarters due to the wedding season and as Indians celebrate festivals such as Diwali, when buying bullion is considered auspicious.
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Knowing that he could make money renovating and reselling these homes, he approached an investor he had worked with, who had an auspicious nickname: Lucky.
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Hoffman, playing in his fourth Masters, did not have an auspicious start to his round: He needed three putts on the third and fifth holes.
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Compete in the Battlefield and you'll join this community that includes auspicious names like Mint, Dropbox, Yammer, TripIt, Getaround and Cloudflare — to name just a few.
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Perhaps Littlefinger is waiting until the most auspicious moment to reveal who Jon Snow really is — he wants to use this information to weaken Jon's alliances.
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Sourcing gratis beats, artwork, videos, and more from friends, he's released five increasingly auspicious projects since 22009 and has even landed meetings with Interscope and Columbia.
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Yet summer, at its glowing core, is a time of auspicious breakthroughs, and the best albums released across June, July, and August rattled with justifiable discovery.
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Cherry blossom season begun earlier than expected in Tokyo this week in what may be an auspicious sign for scandal-hit Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
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Amazon's Fire Phone may have been a surprisingly auspicious failure, I keep thinking as I watch the expansion of Alexa, the company's cloud-based virtual assistant.
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Only now is this fuming work, about the quest for dignity in the northeast of England, being granted a wide release, and the timing is auspicious.
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The network expansion comes at an auspicious time for automakers, a number of which are planning to roll out electric vehicles in the next several years.
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The Yankees got an auspicious start on Wednesday from Gregorius, who had an uneasy transition to the Bronx when he replaced Derek Jeter two years ago.
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At the bar I found Mr. Ruffins himself, an auspicious development — he was a good person to ask about something that had been on my mind.
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Despite auspicious beginnings in March 2016, the refugee deal between Turkey and the European Union came under severe strain following a downturn in the Turkish economy.
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Hawking was born in Oxford, England, on what an auspicious date: January 8, 1942 -- the 20163th anniversary of the death of astronomer and physicist Galileo Galilei.
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Yet these auspicious elements often seem to exist in a lumbering, sleepwalking state, as if waiting to be stimulated into the ideal selves that lurk within.
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All in all, it was hardly an auspicious beginning for what would end up as Ryan's seventh—and certainly most improbable—Major League Baseball no-hitter.
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"I will worship these sacred rice grains and I will give some to my relatives and neighbors, because they are considered auspicious," said another watcher, Somkid Janchompoo.
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All that set the stage for Pillars Fund, which began in 225 from the shared vision of a group of friends who came together in auspicious circumstances.
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Auspicious signs had preceded his arrival, in the spring of 1950: a white elephant had padded out from the jungle and hailstones had fallen on the capital.
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A sudden peak of interest in the concept, which is rarely used to challenge powerful men, made a conversation with Stella McCartney feel all the more auspicious.
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Geely, which means auspicious in Mandarin, came through China's auto market slowdown with sales up 22 percent last year compared to 4.7 percent for the market overall.
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Democratic victory in November, combined with a GOP in delightful post-Trump meltdown mode, would create the most auspicious political climate in decades for advancing women's rights.
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Indians were celebrating Akshaya Tritiya on Tuesday, one of the most auspicious times to buy gold, along with Diwali and Dhanteras, which fall in October or November.
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In Rajasthan, a state famed for its palaces and forts, weddings peak during the Akshaya Tritiya festival in April and May, which is considered an auspicious period.
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Dorothy Rodham had an auspicious date of birth — June 4, 1919, the very same day the Senate passed a constitutional amendment giving women the right to vote.
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"Feng shui is a Chinese philosophical system used to position ourselves within nature when creating auspicious sites; using astronomy, geography and concepts of chi," Ludy tells us.
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I'm writing this on an auspicious day for New York's music scene, with Igor Levit's "Life" recital tour and Nico Muhly's "Marnie" both coming to the city.
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Harding's first year actually brought some auspicious legislative accomplishments, including passage of the Federal Highway Act of 1921, which invested millions in the nation's infant highway system.
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"I'm struggling to understand why they think this is a more auspicious time than other times," said Rory Stewart, a Tory lawmaker and an ally of Mrs.
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At the time, the average life expectancy of French women was 74.5 years, and Raffray, then forty-seven, no doubt thought he'd negotiated himself an auspicious contract.
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I am not ever going to wake up on this most auspicious day of the year and be stoked about the "adventure" of eating raw meatloaf mix.
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By all accounts, the company's decision to not rush to market was a good one, as foldables have not gotten off to the most auspicious of starts.
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Traders also hoped demand would increase in the final quarter as India gears up for festivals such as Diwali and Dussehra, when buying gold is considered auspicious.
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Usually imports jump during the second half due to the wedding season as well as festivals such as Diwali and Dussehra, when buying gold is considered auspicious.
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Given the increasing attention to these issues, the book's auspicious timing and deeply researched foundations are already having a huge effect on an important cultural conversation today.
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Oh, and it reached the auspicious milestone of $420 a share at the end of the year, which Elon Musk obviously had to note in a tweet.
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Before I started this gym, I told him I wanted it to have an auspicious name and asked if it was okay to combine my name with his.
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In the scene, Cixi is seated under a towering pine tree branch, granting her the visually dynamic position in the composition and the embrace of an auspicious symbol.
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The King wore a 20173 kilogram (22017 lb) crown and was bathed with holy water during parts of the ceremony, which featured incense, yellow flowers and auspicious oils.
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Yet we're here anyway because this year E3 comes at an auspicious time for technologies that could represent a major change to the industry: virtual and augmented reality.
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Her iconic Coachella performance, which opens with a phalanx of majorette-inspired dancers clearing the way for Bey costumed as Nefertiti, arrives at an auspicious moment for majoretting.
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No elephants participated in the official coronation ceremonies, although the king to be presented with a white elephant, a gift that is considered especially auspicious, some time later.
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With Italy flailing, Britain Brexiting and Poland in the grip of illiberal democracy, a restoration of the bond with France would come at an auspicious time for Germany.
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It's been just over a year since Google introduced the latest Pixel, and alongside a Chrome OS refresh could be an auspicious time to launch a new one.
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" Eugene Lim, Head of marketing and PR at Toscano "Men tend to shy away from colour, especially bright colours like red — an auspicious colour during Chinese New Year.
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The timing is auspicious, as another twist on the meal delivery service, Maple (which was backed by the Momofuku-famous celebrity chef, David Chang) has just shut down.
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It comes at an auspicious time, as Democrats move from their tentative victory in keeping Obamacare alive to a new health care reform message for 2018 and beyond.
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Today, he authorized a permit to resume construction of the Keystone XL pipeline, and the photograph of this auspicious event joined a growing body of such primary documents.
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Passions run high because "big money" is at stake, said Nanda, with even small temples receiving millions in cash and valuables from worshippers at festivals and auspicious days.
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On lucky days, they will get much more in tips, some as big as $10 or even $240, forever marking that grave as auspicious, distinct in their memory.
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Coming after Germany's drab 0-0 draw with Poland, which finished second in the group, the one-goal win will probably feel even less auspicious for the Germans.
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It was certainly an auspicious and principled way to introduce their baby to the world, but now, guitarist/bassist Cheng and vocalist/drum programmer Belcic are reaching higher.
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The timing was auspicious for the 29-year-old actress and cabaret singer, who brought with her some of the glamour of Weimar Germany's gender-bending night life.
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But the second half had just begun in Seville, and finally things were starting to look auspicious: Brazil went on the attack and local fans resumed their cheering.
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He is off to an auspicious start, deciding to recognize the MOCA employees' recent unionization efforts, and doing away with admission costs, making the museum accessible to all.
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If the Mets felt haunted by ghosts from 2006 during the game, they received more auspicious visits earlier Monday, when they welcomed familiar faces back to Citi Field.
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But La La Land also has plenty in common with Chazelle's work so far—both Whiplash and his auspicious 2009 debut, Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench.
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In his auspicious debut at the press briefing podium, White House spokesman Raj Shah refused to reveal what, if anything, officials knew about Porter's alleged history of violent behavior.
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The opposition itself is seeking to remove unpopular Maduro via a recall referendum and, although authorities have quashed the vote, some activists saw Castro's death as an auspicious sign.
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Rather than reflecting a patron's high social status and elegant tastes, these were auspicious symbols that expressed someone's aspirations, from wishes for longevity to hopes for a happy marriage.
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It was only the second time in the 24-year history of the shindig that the bank's CEO actually bothered to attend, and the timing was anything but auspicious.
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Thanabadee said he was overcome with joy to present the new king with the first white elephant of his reign, especially in the auspicious light of the coronation events.
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Children watch in awe as Ekachai raises his trunk and roars while adults buy lottery tickets based on "auspicious numbers" associated with the elephant and amulets blessed by him.
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To celebrate the auspicious anniversary, Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner is expected to sign into law a bill that unravels the Hyde Amendment's hold on women's rights in his state.
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The shroud was assembled from thousands of pieces of jade, a precious stone adored by the Chinese since the Neolithic period as an auspicious material that could ensure immortality.
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She came into my life at an auspicious moment; I was five months pregnant, already a mom to twin boys, and had a large and lovable mutt at home.
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"Since we are compatriots of the same blood as South Koreans, it is natural for us to share their pleasure over the auspicious event and help them," he said.
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The White House's top Russia official quit on Wednesday — an auspicious move the day before he's scheduled to testify to lawmakers in the impeachment investigation into President Donald Trump.
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Related: 'Crazy Rich Asians' serves up auspicious mix of romance, laughs It's easy to think of the project as the "Asian 'Black Panther'" given the excitement surrounding its diversity.
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To honor the auspicious occasion, the group decided to do a little poll of the 80 "greatest directorial achievements in feature film" since the organization was founded in 1936.
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The chapters on the early years of her career trace auspicious beginnings at Princeton, and then at Harvard Law School and a job at a white-shoe law firm.
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I am South African-Indian Hindu and take part in a fast that abstains from the consumption of meat and eggs, every Monday, Tuesday and occasional Hindu auspicious days.
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It is auspicious that "Loving" is released in a season of the year when, by mystical and religious tradition, the veil between the living and the dead is thin.
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On Diwali, a time window of a few hours in the evening will open to mark the auspicious time to pray to the goddess of wealth and fortune, Lakshmi.
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In the nine years since its auspicious debut, HBO's Game of Thrones has revolutionized series television with its enormous ensemble cast, multi-continent-spanning productions, shocking character deaths, and dragons!
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Political turmoil has embroiled Brazil for the last half-decade, exposing the country's deep social divisions, which persisted over years of auspicious economic development.
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Male-to-female "hijras", the most visible group in the transgender community, feature in Hindu mythology and are seen as auspicious oddities whose blessings are sought at weddings and births.
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For a small group of people, however, the theft — likely masterminded, we now know, by a Russian cybercrime suspect who was arrested in Greece this past summer — would prove auspicious.
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According to ancient Brahman texts, a white elephant has seven auspicious characteristics: white eyes, a white soft palate, white toenails, white hair, white skin, white tail hair, and white genitals.
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Indian demand may also continue to gain in the current quarter given a higher number of auspicious days for weddings, which has in the past led to increased gold purchases.
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It was into these auspicious premises in early February that a money-remittance company, Philrem, moved about $60m stolen from Bangladesh's central bank, delivering over half of it in cash.
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In previous years, Shabab fighters staged suicide missions and offensives against government positions during Ramadan, believing that it was especially auspicious to be martyred during the Muslim month of fasting.
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The Shabab are expected to stage more assassinations and suicide missions, possibly in June, during the holy month of Ramadan, when being martyred is considered especially auspicious for the afterlife.
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The delay allowed for Tsukiji to hold at least one more New Year's auction, which is considered auspicious and a great way for the winning bidder to gain some publicity.
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Born and raised in Milwaukee, Fein attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where, after starting as a Home Economics major, she transferred to the Art Department at an auspicious time.
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Though the project—a collaboration between Durham University, Doll's Eye Theater, Rape Crisis South London, and feminist organization Purple Drum—has been months in the making, the timing feels auspicious.
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They signed the lease on July 3, and the next day, a barge in the river set off a huge fireworks display, which seemed an auspicious start to their tenancy.
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Of course the night was an auspicious one for the prizewinners, positioning "Get Out" and "Call Me by Your Name" as early favorites, as expected, going into the Oscars race.
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"This wasn't the most auspicious of beginning for this Parliament," said Mr. Amir, the analyst, adding, "He has to make the transition from opposition leader to the leader of Pakistan."
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John Davis Gallery, the previous occupant of this Warren Street space, will be sorely missed, but the Amenoff show is enormously consoling and an auspicious beginning for the new venue.
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The vernacular culture includes separate small neighborhoods that have what amount to community bulletin boards displaying notices and Chinese calendars that note auspicious days for weddings, funerals and other events.
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LADY MACBETH This auspicious and thoroughly cinematic first feature from the British stage and opera director William Oldroyd transplants a Russian novella, "Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk," to 19th-century England.
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The timing is especially auspicious for Microsoft, which also stopped supporting Windows 7 this week, meaning an operating system used by millions of people isn't getting any more security patches.
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The soprano Joélle Harvey, who excelled as Almirena in the English Concert's performance of Handel's "Rinaldo" last year at Carnegie Hall, had an auspicious Met debut on Sunday as Pamina.
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But perhaps the most auspicious sign came from the Republican representative Dave Brat of Virginia: He recently complained that "the women are in my grill no matter where I go."
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Hanna-Elisabeth Müller, a young German soprano, had an auspicious Met debut as Marzelline, Rocco's impressionable daughter, who has fallen for Fidelio, not knowing the truth about this shy newcomer.
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The timing of the annual conservative jamboree is auspicious because it will offer Trump access to activists on the right, who he must win over to get anything significant done.
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"Clearly it's a deal that's been in the works for a while, but it's quite fair to say that the decline in the pound is auspicious in the circumstances," Thomson said.
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In the first quarter of this year, consumption rose 5 percent from a year ago to 159 tonnes, also buoyed by more auspicious days for weddings and lower prices, it said.
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KCNA said on Sunday the scientists and technicians "brought the great auspicious event of the national history, an extra-large event through the perfect success in the test of H-bomb".
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At the age of eighteen, the bassist, singer-songwriter, and funk auteur Raphael Saadiq toured with Prince—an auspicious beginning to a career that has included leading his family band, Tony!
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Since releasing their auspicious debut album xx in 2009, the xx have become one of the most popular bands of a generation that generally lacks popular bands but loves lowercase lettering.
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Wealthy people often had their complete horoscopes in writing and zodiacal signs portrayed in ornamental gems, especially if they deemed the cosmic configuration at their conception or birth to be auspicious.
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TORONTO — The first building in Canada to bear the name of Donald J. Trump — a 65-story hotel and condominium in downtown Toronto — did not get off to an auspicious start.
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The cranes seem to time their arrival and departure to auspicious dates on the Buddhist calendar, according to Phuntso, circling the sky three times above the valley's 433th-century Gangteng Monastery.
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Since legumes are considered auspicious for the New Year, I often have some on the stove during the first week of January, for whatever good luck or prosperity they may impart.
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The first lady, who is cooler than you or I will ever be, started things off with Stevie Wonder's "Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours" — an auspicious choice, as it turns out.
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This year is the 215th anniversary of that auspicious release, a doleful 21990-minute symphony that swept the Billboard charts, as well as the 212th anniversary of the work's 1977 premiere.
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Considering that, the slightly younger (and, to a lesser degree, more racially mixed) faces this year felt like a part of a broader trend in jazz — and therefore, even more auspicious.
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What more auspicious moment could there be for an out-of-town visitor to sneak into a friendly bar full of happy fans who were watching their team coast to victory?
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The story of a precocious child raised by a charismatic, unhinged mother, it was received warmly, the auspicious debut of a young writer keenly attentive to language and the natural world.
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Demand for gold usually strengthens at the end of the year on purchases for the traditional wedding season and major festivals including Diwali and Dussehra, when bullion buying is considered auspicious.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads The new retrospective of Chicano artist Frank Romero at the Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach (MOLAA), Dreamland, comes at an auspicious time.
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Normal enough: Red has long been considered an auspicious color, and swaddling your bum in it seems like a decent way to start the New Year off on a good, er, foot.
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The shares closed the day at HK$4.58, up 18 percent on the HK$3.88 list price — an auspicious number in Chinese culture that hit the upper end of Razer's price range.
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Demand usually picks up in the second half of the year due to the wedding season and as Indians celebrate festivals such as Dussehra and Diwali, when buying gold is considered auspicious.
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Born in Vietnam, she is a member of the auspicious class of Silicon Valley founders who are immigrants — among US startups valued above $1 billion, 51 percent have a foreign-born founder.
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They were dressed predominantly in pink -- an auspicious color believed to restore health -- and yellow, which is the color of the king, based on the fact he was born on a Monday.
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For the vast majority of Muslims, the holy month is a time for fasting, prayer and good actions, but Islamist terror groups see it as an especially auspicious time to launch attacks.
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The Republican Party has an auspicious history, and much to be proud of: The end of slavery, the end of the Cold War, a pride in America that has been well-deserved.
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It's true that Bixby didn't have the most auspicious of debuts when it rolled out on the Galaxy S8 earlier this year, but Samsung's clearly got big plans for its smart assistant.
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Demand in India usually strengthens in the final quarter as the country gears up for the wedding season and major festivals such as Diwali and Dussehra, when buying gold is considered auspicious.
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The problem was resolved, but for a young company purporting to fix a lot of the problems in today's mobile and tech landscape, such an amateur error is hardly an auspicious beginning.
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It was the first major jolt in a relationship that had begun on an auspicious note in 2009, when Mr. Obama chose Turkey as the first Muslim country he visited as president.
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As if the start to the new year couldn't get more auspicious, Mariah later posted a picture of herself enjoying said tea, giving us the shadiest, most glamorous inaugural meme of 2018.
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Demand in India usually strengthens in the final quarter of the year due to the wedding season as well as festivals such as Diwali and Dussehra, when buying gold is considered auspicious.
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That exploration will provide an auspicious beginning to 2019, the 50th-anniversary year of Apollo's first moon landing — perhaps, in the long view, the most important historical event of the 20th century.
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As an early sign of how Impossible Foods' plant-based meat may fare in China, the placement of the company's booth at the International Import Expo in Shanghai was not particularly auspicious.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads LOS ANGELES — Last year, the Animation is Film Festival made an auspicious debut in Hollywood, packing some of the best of contemporary animation into one weekend.
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By the evening of October 12th a large crowd of well-wishers had gathered to pray in the central courtyard of Siriraj hospital; many came dressed in yellow and pink, two auspicious hues.
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Families gather in ancestral halls bearing the names of their forefathers, who are buried in traditional horseshoe-shaped graves nearby, nestled at the spots on the hillsides with the most auspicious feng shui.
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"This is not a very auspicious start for a party who is trying to run a narrative that an incumbent president is inept and corrupt," said Sam Nunberg, a former Trump political aide.
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This blossoms into a ravishing trio for Akhnaten, his wife, Nefertiti (the rich-voiced mezzo-soprano J'Nai Bridges, in an auspicious Met debut), and his mother, Queen Tye (the radiant soprano Disella Larusdottir).
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Demand in India, the second biggest gold consumer after China, usually picks up towards the end of the year going into the wedding and festival season, when buying the metal is considered auspicious.
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While it might seem bizarre for a farmer in Peru to sue a utility in Germany, Noah Walker-Crawford, an adviser to the group, said Germany's laws seemed auspicious for such a suit.
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In fact, the moment is auspicious for Senator Sanders and President Obama jointly to lead a "We the People" movement, uniting Democrats and all other Americans who are appalled by the election's result.
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After all, North Korea is repressive like no other country in the world today: Did you know that triplets are seized from parents and raised by the state, because they are considered auspicious?
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Four of Concordia's nonfiction films will be among the 16 shown as part of Sundance's U.S. Documentary Competition, an auspicious start for a newcomer to the country's pre-eminent festival for independent cinema.
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The immediate outlook is also auspicious for industrial metals and energy, in his view, as economic growth picks up in more parts of the world, though he advises steering clear of agricultural commodities.
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The news might sound auspicious for the salt-loving bacteria, algae, and archaea that are responsible for Smithson's treasured hue — but the fact remains that the lake is desiccating at an alarming rate.
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Demand for gold usually strengthens in the final quarter as India gears up for the wedding season as well as festivals such as Diwali and Dhanteraas, when buying the precious metal is considered auspicious.
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But this is a pretty clear diss, and its timing couldn't be more auspicious, given the fact that rumors have all but been confirmed that Kyrie is sick of playing second fiddle to LeBron.
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As a 10-time Grammy winner, one of Time's most influential people in the world (twice), not to mention the success of his numerous albums, Timberlake is the perfect candidate for the auspicious recognition.
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The morning began with one of the most auspicious video appearances of his presidency, as he went on camera to announce the death of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State.
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With this info, a professional astrologer can create an inception chart that shows you where the planets were placed in relation to the Wheel of the Zodiac at the moment of this auspicious event.
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Nevertheless, although this is an auspicious first novel, she says it's probably her last, at least until she retires from her busy day job as senior editor of the fashion magazines V and VMAN.
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It also robbed her of her birthright in blessing me on my wedding day, in symbolically clipping a lock of my hair and tying red string around my wrist for an auspicious new future.
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Rattner has joined this auspicious company with his recent op-ed, "The Dangerous Folly of Lafferism," in which he attacks the reality that high tax rates will cut tax revenues and reduce economic growth.
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In the October-December quarter, demand will be more "robust than the September quarter" as Indians brace for the wedding season and festivals such as Diwali, when buying bullion is considered auspicious, Somasundaram said.
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For Republican lawmakers, the timing couldn't have been more auspicious in its optics: They had taken deliberate steps toward investigating the governor, but there would be no need to vote on whether to impeach.
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Leverage can be vital to businesses, and borrowing can be an auspicious sign that a company has ideas worth pursuing, but as a general tendency, excessive leverage among companies can translate into lower ROIC.
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Reports surfaced this week that Petrov died earlier this year, offering an auspicious reminder that mankind is still just one blunder away from wiping itself off the face of the planet with nuclear weapons.
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Sag season will be an especially auspicious time for you to let go of the past and move forward toward your destiny— Sagittarius is the centaur, always on the hunt with its bow and arrow.
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For Islamist terrorist groups such as ISIS, the holy month of Ramadan -- a time of fasting and prayer for the vast majority of Muslims -- is seen as a particularly auspicious time to launch terrorist attacks.
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The most desired plates, which include the numbers 2 through 10 (1 is reserved for the police commissioner) and combinations of auspicious digits, are owned by some of the city's richest and most prominent people.
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I sat down with Riley a few weeks before the film's theatrical opening to talk about his hopes for the film, its auspicious timing, and what he thinks about the relationship between activism and art.
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It was auspicious that the occasion for his visit was the North American Leaders' Summit, since it's an outgrowth of NAFTA, a free trade agreement whose repeal has become the center of Trump's economic platform.
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This year the contribution to sales from weddings could rise as the Hindu calendar shows 37 auspicious dates for weddings from just 21 in the second quarter a year earlier, up 76 percent, Somasundaram said.
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Part of it is an intellectual game, the satisfaction of recognizing a familiar figure in an unfamiliar context: Oh, Estelle is always twinkling because she's playing the role of the auspicious star from the shipwreck.
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BANGKOK — In a gilded ceremony set to start at the auspicious time of 10:09 on Saturday morning, with his new queen by his side, King Maha Vajiralongkorn Bodindradebayavarangkun of Thailand will be formally crowned.
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Giving money or labor to a royally endorsed project has come to be seen as a good deed, and so an opportunity to improve one's chances of an auspicious rebirth in the Buddhist reincarnation cycle.
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On the Billboard album chart this week, two auspicious debuts from leading figures of that movement — Lil Uzi Vert, 23, and XXXTentacion, 19 — marked their commercial arrival by outpacing an array of more traditional releases.
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If Sabathia was a victim of bad luck last season — his 9-12 record belied his 3.91 earned run average, the second-best of any Yankees starter — then Tuesday provided an auspicious start to 2017.
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It's hard to imagine anyone being able to deliver—let alone improve upon—the promises of that auspicious debut, one with growls and riffs so furious it felt like an axe flying through the air.
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In Prayagraj, during this festival, Hindus believe it is auspicious to immerse themselves at a specific point where the Ganges joins two other rivers, the Sarasvati (a mystical one) and the Yamuna (a real one).
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"On the auspicious occasion of Her Majesty The Gyaltsuen's birthday, (June 4), we join the entire country in offering our wishes and love to Her Majesty The Queen," a post on her official Facebook page read.
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Between Trump's likely acquittal, the State of the Union and a Democratic debacle in the Iowa caucus, the president's supporters are celebrating what they see as one of his most auspicious weeks in the White House.
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With $15 million in Series A funding and the support of Italian business magnate Nicola Bulgari, The Modist represents the beginning of a new and auspicious era of modesty, with innovators like Guenez leading the way.
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The quarter ending in December typically accounts for about a third of India's gold sales since it includes the start of the wedding season and festivals like Dhanteras and Diwali, when buying gold is considered auspicious.
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Every time, he says, peoples' faces lit up with some combination of surprise and delight—because finding a $1 or a $5 or even a $20 bill might be auspicious, but a $2 bill is magic.
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And while those who know a bit about Chinese culture will recognize that the review embargo corresponds with an auspicious date, by crafting such a broadly appealing movie, the filmmakers have seemingly made their own luck.
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But they suggest that, as the number of Mexican migrants seeking work in the United States has decreased from its peak, this could be an auspicious time to bundle their proposal into a broader reform effort.
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But as Walkers: Hollywood Afterlives in Art and Artifact, the Museum of the Moving Image's auspicious foray into exhibiting contemporary art, wryly suggests, it might be film and its iconic images that help stave off decay.
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Demand for gold usually strengthens in the final quarter of the year as India gears up for the wedding season as well as major festivals including Diwali and Dussehra, when buying the yellow metal is considered auspicious.
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Demand for gold tends to go up in the final quarter of the year in India due to Hindu festivals such as Diwali, Dussehra and the start of the wedding season when buying gold is considered auspicious.
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Large companies want to be downtown because that's where the most talented younger workers want to be, making corporate, urban migration another auspicious trend for America's big cities, along with falling crime rates and expanding tax bases.
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Bibi Bourelly, now 21, was also responsible for Rihanna's 2015 hit single "Bitch Better Have My Money," along with tracks last year by Usher and Selena Gomez — an auspicious industry arrival by a proud, self-proclaimed outsider.
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But Warren can't possibly believe that 2023—a year after midterm elections that traditionally tend to reduce the number of legislators in the president's party—would be a more auspicious time to enact a single-payer bill.
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Kono began lifting weights under less than auspicious circumstances: at the Tule Lake internment center in Northern California, where in 21963 he and his family were among the 21958,218 Japanese-Americans relocated inland from the Pacific Coast.
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It seemed like an auspicious period, Mr. Koulis said, as Greece was pulling out of its economic crisis — but then, in January 2015, with a new government, the country again teetered on the edge of economic dissolution.
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The bill, which aims to modernize and strengthen the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), has bipartisan, bicameral, and White House backing and represents an auspicious chance to address one of the major shortcomings of current development policy.
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They are particularly auspicious in China, where colonies of tiny bats have appeared, wings outstretched, on nearly every kind of common household object for centuries, serving as decorative motifs on vases, bowls and dishes, and snuff bottles.
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He did not make an auspicious start on Saturday, and a double-bogey at his seventh hole, where he took four shots to hole out from just off the green, left him two-over for the day.
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It's auspicious timing for the release, on Netflix, of a new documentary about the artist by the award-winning filmmaker Alison Klayman (known most recently for "Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry"), an exclusive clip from which premieres above.
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Here, Mak explains the symbolic significance of each of his 12 zodiac illustrations, from 2008's Year of the Rat stamp to his just-launched Year of the Pig stamp, which features some "very auspicious" peach blossoms.
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During the banquet on Saturday, Mr. Kim spurred his engineers to make "redoubled efforts, not slackening the spirit displayed by them in bringing the great auspicious event of the national history," the North Korean news agency said.
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Donald Trump and Argentina's President Mauricio Macri didn't get off to the most auspicious start: According to a book by Macri's father, the 45th U.S. president once broke Macri's golf clubs over his legs, one by one.
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It was an auspicious national debut for Mr. Nelson, who in the 215s and '22014s was one of the stars of the golden age of ventriloquism, performing with Danny and with Farfel, a quick-witted hound dog.
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For Tehran's clerical leaders, the confrontation between putative Persian Gulf allies came at a particularly auspicious time — when the entire Sunni Arab world seemed lined up against them after President Trump's visit to Saudi Arabia in May.
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Then, when Anne became Queen, Sarah was promoted to more auspicious positions like Keeper of the Privy Purse, Groom of the Stole, and Mistress of the Robes — essentially, Sarah held all the major household offices available to women.
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"Women who opt for c-sections before their scheduled date to match it with an auspicious date do not realise that the last three to four weeks of their pregnancy are the most important ones," says Dr. Goyal.
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The case is moving ahead at an auspicious moment, with a growing number of states edging toward legalizing marijuana for recreational use and thereby opening the floodgates for corporate capitalism to assert a grip on weed in America.
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Swiss corporate tax reform shot down by voters: Swiss voters rejected a proposal to lower corporate taxes over the weekend, bucking the trend of ever-lower corporate income duties as countries vie to host economically auspicious multinational firms.
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My best guess today is that Democrats will lose a few seats in the Senate, win the House very narrowly, a much less auspicious prognostication than I and most close observers expected just two to three weeks ago.
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So it seemed auspicious when Texas' governor and lieutenant governor — as well as the University of Texas' top two officials — posted Twitter messages in favor of Houston's membership in the Big 212 on the same Thursday in July.
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Less auspicious is the nomination of Laszlo Trocsanyi as commissioner for enlargement; as an ally of Hungary's authoritarian Viktor Orban, he is hardly well-placed to pass judgment on the rule of law in would-be accession countries.
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It was an auspicious start to Lucha Libre Volcánica's monthly show at their training gym in Seattle's South Lake Union neighborhood and my first experience seeing lucha libre—or any form of professional wrestling, for that matter—live.
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The 112-year-old motor company is the very definition of a luxury car, but much of its auspicious reputation is based on its embodiment of classical luxury, in the tradition of Beethoven, foie gras, and delectable suicide doors.
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Once a soloist at New York City Ballet with an auspicious future, she was forced to leave the company in 2012, felled by an autoimmune disease that saw her hair fall out, her weight rise and her balance disappear.
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While it is usually used to position objects and in architecture, the more superstitious believe it can divine the future, and many seek out feng shui masters and geomancers to choose auspicious dates for life events, such as marriages.
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Ousterhout liked to listen to a classical radio station as he operated, and as he was finishing the procedure his favorite piece of music, Wagner's "The Flight of the Valkyries," came on—an auspicious conclusion to his surgical career.
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If "This is John" excelling at Sundance was an inflection point in the Duplasses' careers, it followed a less auspicious milestone — the brothers had just badly fumbled what they thought was their best shot at producing a feature film.
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Next Tuesday marks the official end of the Lunar New Year period, an auspicious occasion on the Chinese calendar, that this year has been marred by the viral illness that has claimed more than 229,2195 lives in mainland China.
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Clearly, though, market fundamentals are less auspicious than they were eight years ago, when stocks had been battered in the ferocious downturn of the great financial crisis, and investors with foresight and audacity could buy at rock-bottom prices.
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While the peace process they were meant to represent did not live as long as Uri and Duri -- the pair died in 2013, amid worsening inter-Korean relations -- hopes are high Songgang and Gomi will be more auspicious gifts.
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Having the Taliban attempt such a brazen attack on him the very first day he arrives — perhaps based on information that came from inside the Afghan security establishment itself — is not exactly the most auspicious start to his trip.
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When that energy density is associated with a length scale on which particles may be acting, it turns out to be about 100 microns—again suggesting this neighborhood would be an auspicious place to look for signs of new physics.
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Much like the panda's symbolism for an entire conservation movement (think about the World Wildlife Fund's iconic logo), their rehabilitation in captivity is an auspicious sign of what can be achieved if we put our money where our mouths are.
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Maybe the salty ocean air blows across the cooking patties in just the right way; maybe the environment itself manipulates perception; maybe Taurus was in an auspicious astrological house when the place was built out of wood and old toilet seats.
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For a writer who once lamented that no one would ever read his books, James's timing is auspicious: among the sort of people who pay attention to the Booker Prize, snobbery about wizards and dragons and aliens is increasingly passé.
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It was an auspicious day for both the bride and groom: The date fell on what would have been Ms. Mathis's parents' 44th wedding anniversary, and in 1993, this was the day Mr. Buford started as a San Francisco firefighter.
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Less auspicious is the appointment of Laszlo Trocsanyi as commissioner for enlargement; as an ally of Hungary's authoritarian Viktor Orban he is hardly well-placed to pass judgment on the state of rule-of-law in would-be accession countries.
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An 290-year-old senior on the cusp of global celebrity, James arrived with his team on this auspicious trip to Los Angeles for a nationally televised game against Mater Dei High School, a basketball powerhouse from Santa Ana, Calif.
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Over the course of its first year or two, Brain's efforts to cultivate in machines the skills of a 19803-year-old were auspicious enough that the team was graduated out of the X lab and into the broader research organization.
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This article originally appeared on VICE Sports UK. While the spotlight has been shining on Sam Allardyce's first game as England manager, Monday night will provide an altogether more auspicious and historic football debut in the Finnish city of Turku.
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The timing of Trump's impeachment trial could hardly be less auspicious for a chief justice eager to avoid the political fray, especially as Roberts has morphed into something of a swing vote between the court's reliably conservative and liberal blocs.
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I joined the frenzy at department store food halls and convenience stores deliberating over which would be the luckiest of rolls, and settled on one with the (hopefully auspicious) seven fillings of ikura, prawn, tuna, crab meat, egg, cucumber, pickles.
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Since that auspicious beginning, Cruz has become a silver screen sex goddess in films such as To Rome with Love and Blow, and a highly esteemed actress for roles in Nine, Volver and Vicky Cristina Barcelona, for which she won an Academy Award.
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Since last year, the 33-year-old male elephant has been treated with reverence as a deity after being identified as the first auspicious white elephant to be discovered under the reign of King Rama X, as the monarch is also known.
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The ceremony also saw the inscription of the king's new name and title on another golden plate, and an engraving of his royal seal which is an auspicious symbol that is said to show the sovereignty and the majesty of the king.
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The announcement is planned to coincide with the 20th anniversary of the handover of the former British Colony from British to Chinese rule, which is considered by the Chinese authorities to be an auspicious date, two people briefed on the matter said.
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The current pause in their expansion is an auspicious opportunity to devote major attention and significant resources to the more compelling challenges at hand—namely, making existing trade agreements work better, reviving economic growth, investing in infrastructure, and strengthening and retooling the workforce.
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"We had thought about what to get Kimi as a wedding gift over and over, and then I realized that the best gift would be to give her an auspicious experience of an Indian-style bridal shower and Mehndi party," Sani said.
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India's gold demand is expected to rise in the June quarter from a year ago due to a higher number of auspicious days for weddings and a fall in local prices ahead of a key festival, the World Gold Council said on Thursday.
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At the same time, ongoing military confrontations about China's contested maritime borders, and Washington's diplomatic gestures toward Taiwan, perceived by Beijing as another challenge to its territorial integrity, are not an auspicious background for confident agreements on half-a-trillion-dollar trade issues.
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He moved from Philadelphia to go to Columbia College in Chicago—Kanye had just released Graduation, which seemed auspicious—and he started recording under the name theMIND when he was looking to try out some new sounds under a more elusive guise.
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It took Beyoncé (who has not met the filmmaker and whose representative could not confirm the film's influence on "Lemonade") and her BeyHive of followers to bring "Daughters" renewed and wider renown, and it came at an auspicious time for Ms. Dash.
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In retrospect, meeting that way was auspicious, an indication of a shared passion, if not for the particular book being feted that evening — one about the dawning gig economy that has long since been surpassed by bleaker fare — than for books in general.
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He did his stand-up act at Catskills resorts and in strip clubs, and his movie career got off to an auspicious start with a small part in the 813 submarine drama "Run Silent, Run Deep," starring Clark Gable and Burt Lancaster.
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Our government's passive, hands-off approach to this burgeoning industry leaves most of America's innovative and maverick-led companies, inspired by SpaceX's success, to face a Hobson's choice: either accept foreign investment and jeopardize potential future business or shut down their auspicious new ventures entirely.
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Long Shot made an auspicious debut at the SXSW festival and has received warm reviews (it's at 13 percent on Rotten Tomatoes), but it only managed to snag a middling B CinemaScore, which doesn't bode well for its word-of-mouth in the days ahead.
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Rosenstein made an entrance at the most auspicious time possible Rosenstein -- who the White House had pinned Comey's firing on until Trump himself took full credit for it Thursday -- walked into a private meeting with Burr and Warner just feet from the McCabe hearing.
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"On this auspicious occasion, the irony has not been lost on Vice President Al Gore, or any of us, that yesterday, we inaugurated as President of the United States the only leader in the free world who denies the science of climate change," she noted.
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The suit may be an attempt to prepare for a challenge of the Nevada result, but it's not off to an auspicious start, with a skeptical judge ruling that ballots shouldn't be isolated from the rest of the count because they were allegedly cast late.
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"Long live the king," chanted a group of people dressed in yellow, an auspicious color in Thailand, as the king and his new queen walked on a red carpet to the Grand Palace, shielded from the hot afternoon sun by a big yellow umbrella.
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Photograph by Yudi Ela for The New Yorker There is hardly a happier place than a bakery, and, if this city could do with more of them, 2019 has been an auspicious year, thanks to both Pilar and Win Son Bakery, in East Williamsburg.
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To welcome his cows as befitted the occasion and to provide them with an auspicious drink, all the children of the village, clutching every available container, were dispatched to Rwakibirizi, for there was no question of offering the cows the rainwater we kept in reserve.
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"Tokumisa Nzambe po Mose yamoyindo abotami namboka ya Bakoko," which translates as "Thanks be to God, the black Moses is born on the earth of our ancestors," is the auspicious name given to the Congolese orphan at the center of this Man Booker-nominated novel.
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Clinton lost the 2016 presidential race to Donald J. Trump, and Mr. Hnath made an auspicious Broadway debut — his play "A Doll's House Part 2" was a critical success and is now the most-produced play (other than Shakespeare and Christmas standards) in America.
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It has been an auspicious turnaround for Alliance and for Mr. Craft, who in nearly four decades in the coal industry had felt unwelcome at the E.P.A., apparently never even setting foot in the agency's headquarters, one executive told an energy conference last November.
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Year-round, the Jazz Gallery provides a platform for artistic development: It's where the established heavyweights of New York's improvised-music scene debut new material, and where some of the city's most auspicious young talents perform on a major stage for the first time.
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Other than being a numerically auspicious date that stands at the gateway of a fresh new decade, the year 20203 will probably be like any other year: Full of confusing and depressing events that will make you wish Earth had some sort of eject button.
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But the move proved auspicious when it dawned on him, as he explained in the 2002 radio interview, that by residing in the Twin Cities he could do exactly what he wanted, without the distractions of the politics of the New York contemporary musical world.
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Wispy mushrooms appear on a medicine box among other auspicious motifs like a black turtle, a lotus, and a deer; orange ones adorn a 17th-century painted fan, sprouting behind a Chinese scholar's rock and an evergreen plant, which are also symbols of good fortune.
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So it's appropriate that, on this auspicious date, an equally maddening photo recently started making the rounds online: The photo was created by Akiyoshi Kitaoka, a Professor of Psychology at Ritsumeikan University in Japan, who specializes in creating optical illusions (his twitter feed will blow your mind).
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"This year is significant both for the North and the South, as in the North the people will greet the 21905th founding anniversary of their Republic as a great, auspicious event, and in the South the Winter Olympic Games will take place," Kim Jong-un said.
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MUMBAI, May 2 (Reuters) - India's gold demand is expected to rise in the June quarter from a year ago due to a higher number of auspicious days for weddings and a fall in local prices ahead of a key festival, the World Gold Council said on Thursday.
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LONDON — It was supposed to be an auspicious moment: Prime Minister Theresa May of Britain traveling to India to prepare the ground for what could be the country's first trade deal after it leaves the European Union, and show that Britain can thrive outside the bloc.
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One look around and I admit that Cowboy Dinner Tree, saddled neatly on the border between dense national forest and the vast surrounding desert, certainly seems like an auspicious place to ditch a body, but most visitors actually arrive with the intention of burying their hunger instead.
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At the same time, since the theme of today's puzzle has to do with ships and boats, this is an auspicious time to remind you that Times Journeys is hosting a weeklong, trans-Atlantic crossword cruise to Southampton, England on the Queen Mary 2 beginning Dec.
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And that&aposs why I think overall, when you&aposre faced with these kind of good numbers and poll numbers, it&aposs going to be very difficult for the Democrats, you know, to make a strong case for change coming into the midterm elections when things are most auspicious.
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"It seems that the British government wants to (take) major steps towards the EU in the upcoming round of negotiations... It has for example admitted by now that it would meet its financial obligations towards the EU — an auspicious beginning," wrote Commerzbank analysts in a note to clients.
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And in Asia the occult is not just the preserve of an Indian minister learning that she will be president one day, or a crown prince in Thailand keen to know the most auspicious date to succeed his late father as king: it is baked into daily life.
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"It seems that the British government wants to (take) major steps towards the EU in the upcoming round of negotiations ... It has for example admitted by now that it would meet its financial obligations towards the EU - an auspicious beginning," wrote Commerzbank analysts in a note to clients.
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The financial market research firm's survey of presidential elections and the stock market since 1900 concludes that (even though voters tend to tire of two-term presidents and their political parties) the kind of market we've seen this year is, if anything, auspicious for the incumbent Democratic Party.
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It was not an auspicious sign leading to the series against the Red Sox, who have stacked their rotation so their two best pitchers — their ace, Chris Sale, and Drew Pomeranz, who has beaten the Yankees twice — will pitch in each series against the Yankees the next two weekends.
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I was a young racer at the time, I had just turned eighteen and I was just married, so uh this year is very auspicious for us because it's our fiftieth year, it's not only the fiftieth year of the company, it's the fiftieth year of my marriage.
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Dozens of women applied red vermilion dots - regarded as an auspicious symbol in India - to the foreheads of Diesel, Padukone and director D.J. Caruso The film sees Diesel's return to the Zander Cage film franchise after starring in the first movie in 2002 but missing the sequel in 2005.
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"For nearly six decades, Dr. Jane Goodall has been a passionate advocate for chimpanzees, and we are honored to name this little one after her on the auspicious occasion of the first World Chimpanzee Day," Scott Carter, chief life sciences officer for the Detroit Zoological Society (DZS), said in a statement.
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Here the spoiled wives of Shanghai bosses—all carrying prized male heirs—consume diets rich in superstition (no bananas, which cause babies to slip out early); schedule Caesareans on auspicious dates; and pick English names worthy of their princelings (perhaps Stanley, in honour of Morgan Stanley, or Warren, after Warren Buffett).
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The visit, to a site thought to be auspicious to children born (as the young prince was) within the Thimphu Valley housing both the Royal Palace and the nation's capital, is part of the Royal Family's program to introduce the heir apparent to his subjects within the landlocked Himalayan kingdom.
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The auction is typical of Japan's penchant for fresh starts at the beginning of the year — the first visit of the year to a shrine and the first dream of the year are other important firsts — and it's meant to set an auspicious precedent for the 20133 months to come.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads ATHENS — The auspicious arrival of Documenta 14 in Greece earlier this year has so far met considerable controversy in a country still coming to terms with the 2008 financial crisis, social unrest, and the ongoing issue of refugees entering the country's porous southern Mediterranean border.
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The speech was being staged at the F.D.R. memorial on New York City's Roosevelt Island, and though Wong is a political operative of atypical modesty — she describes herself as a former schoolteacher whose accession to minor power has been entirely accidental — she had taken the choice of venue as auspicious.
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Leaned up against the crook of a Barclays Center hallway, a few steps to the right of a loud visiting locker room that boils with the confidence of an auspicious contender, Houston Rockets associate head coach Jeff Bzdelik is describing how unfamiliar he is with the concept of an off day.
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You can make out the kick around the two-second mark, just left of center: (And you can catch a close-up here.) Hard to know exactly what sparked the incident, but Evra was sent off with a red card before the match even started, giving him the auspicious 0' booking.
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That number is extremely auspicious in mathematics; it's in the Fibonacci sequence, it's both a triangular number (the sum of the first six natural numbers, 221 + 221 + 2126 + 4 + 5 + 6) and an octagonal number, and it belongs to a bunch of other fancy sequences that are frankly beyond me.
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We looked back at some of our past coverage on this auspicious day with an essay by the mathematician Steven Strogatz, who wrote that π is the perfect symbol for our species' long effort to tame infinity, and another by the columnist Natalie Angier on the multiplicities of infinity in science. 10.
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With Osborne it seemed clear that what was happening in Britain was most auspicious for the United States and that in the interpretation of Osborne — who, like May, did not support Brexit — Britain appeared to be leaving Europe behind to join in with North America and thus link Britain's fate with the Anglosphere.
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One subject dressed as an auspicious heron for the Sagi dance has his or her arms open to display a broad fan of white flaps like giant window blinds; some performers appear in multiple photos taken from different angles to give us views of colorful patterns or props that may otherwise be hidden.
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Nineteen months and several million dollars later, the Democratic candidate punctuated his 22nd trip to this early voting state on Friday by filing paperwork to appear on the ballot inside the New Hampshire State House, just a few blocks from the coffee shop where the campaign had gotten off to a less-than-auspicious start.
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And the traditional Chinese zodiac, which features 12 animals representing 12 years, is so widely referenced that in 2014, several provinces reported a spike in births among young couples hoping to have their babies in the last weeks of the auspicious Year of the Horse to avoid the less favorable Year of the Sheep.
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All of this may sound auspicious for the blockchain economy, but recent dapp ICOs—which have raised millions of dollars in mere minutes without having a single line of code deployed—have people worried that tokens could become a way for shady apps to get funded like Kickstarters that fail to follow through on their promises.
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And so, at a moment even more auspicious than that of its original publication in French, Charlotte Mandell's radiant translation of Compass into English provides its readers with the opportunity to step back and consider the question of how France and the rest of the West might look at Islam and, for that matter, the world east of Europe.
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Todd McCarthy, The Hollywood Reporter: In the much-anticipated follow-up to his auspicious debut feature Ex Machina four years ago, writer-director Alex Garland shows an unerring hand in building a sense of unease about what evil lurks in a forest that's been taken over by some kind of "other," and then making it pay off.
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"I fiercely believe that Starbucks' attempts to be a different kind of company—one that my own father, a working class laborer, never had a chance to work for—are worth sharing at this fragile yet auspicious moment in our country's history, when truth and dignity need to make a thunderous comeback," he writes in the book's preface.
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Cello Concerto; Sheku Kanneh-Mason, cello; Simon Rattle, conductor; London Symphony Orchestra (Decca) Mr. Kanneh-Mason, a fast-rising cellist who recently made an auspicious New York debut at Weill Recital Hall, joins the veteran Mr. Rattle in a youthful yet searching and intensely expressive account of Elgar's challenging concerto, due for release later this month.
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