auspicious

• Under circumstances so extraordinary and auspicious, the plans of the Jesuits for the conversion of all Eastern Asia were put in execution. —  THE ENGLISH GOVERNESS AT THE SIAMESE COURT
• This strikes me not only as auspicious, but aligned with the profound shifting and transition that we are feeling today - a clarion call for each of us to reflect on what is being born in this generation and in each one of us, and to ask ourselves what role we have in nurturing the seeds of this renewal. —  The Jew and the Carrot
• Sound-alikes and double entendres are important in Chinese (think of all the words that are auspicious or inauspicious because they sound like something else), and they certainly have played role in the ongoing dance between Chinese Internet users and censors. —  Imagethief
• His cast of characters is large and auspicious: Thomas Williams, James Watt, John Westwood, and Matthew Boulton.
• SEOUL, South Korea - State-run television gave North Koreans their first glimpse of the country's "auspicious" rocket launch_ and of an apparently healthy leader Kim Jong Il mingling with farmers and watching bears at the zoo.

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