Myth or not, the phrase bids fair to be the political thumb-suckers'pontification of choice for the run-up to the pre-primary preliminaries.
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The " Philadelphia Inquirer " said it " bids fair to being one of the most astonishing novels of the year ".
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"Like Water for Chocolate " fulfilled the promise, and now " Eat Drink Man Woman " bids fair to continue the tradition.
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Tassan, a new team, are a well selected team of promising youths, who bid fair to shed lustre on central Clontibret this season.
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The Seaboard Air Line has a regular station there, named Stallings, and all prospects bid fair to make this locality of much future importance.
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Doing so, he said, " bids fair to revive the exaggerated and senseless antiquarianism to which the illegal Council of Pistoia gave rise ".
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They sing the glory of a Tudor or a Herbert according as each rises to eminence, and bids fair to become a national leader.
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The 3100 V-6 in the Gran Sport is a relatively new engine at GM, bids fair to prove as reliable as the larger 3800 V-6.
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Steer's trip was a disaster, and Milford remarked gloomily that it'bid fair to be the most costly and least productive on record'of all traveller's trips.
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That, by the way, is a revue of songs about relationships by Sondheim, who bids fair to own the forthcoming season, the last of this century.