auspices

How To Use auspices In A Sentence

• Perhaps his most ambitious project is Hitlab.com, launched last September, an online community where aspiring artists can promote and sell their music outside record-label auspices. Akon's Recession-Proof Tune
• I am not planning to start my own party but I am looking to organise all coloureds in this province under the auspices of the ANC.
• Is Teucer called auspex, as taking the auspices, like an augur, or as giving the auspices, like a god? The Odes and Carmen Saeculare of Horace
• He had passed an unsettled life in continued exile up to his eightieth year; having been harassed with many contumelies and injuries, he had endured with difficulty a miserable and anxious existence, in continual trepidation; famine had driven him out of the land whither he had gone, by the command and under the auspices of God, into Egypt. Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1
• Under the auspices of the fellowship, Hurston was to travel to Florida and New Orleans to begin her research on African American folk tales and to scout out hoodoo practice.
• The film was made under the auspices of the British Film Institute's Production Board, on which I served in the 1960s and 70s alongside, among others, Karel Reisz, Carl Foreman and the eminent documentarist Basil Wright. Britain's best film directors show some early promise
• Florentine Codex: an encyclopedia of Nahua culture and life in precontact Mexico, composed under the auspices of Fray Bernardo de Sahagún during the sixteenth century. Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico
• In any case, most of the men in power have been appointed under his auspices. Times, Sunday Times
• At the end of six months he had been gradually destroyed by secret poison in his prison in the Tower (to which for an alleged offence he had been committed) by the agency of Dr. Forman, a famous 'pharmaceutic,' under the auspices of the Earl of Rochester. The Superstitions of Witchcraft
• He finished his college education under military auspices while in the navy. Times, Sunday Times