As folklore scholar Séamas Ó Catháin put it: 'The arrival of St. Brigit's feast day – 1 February –betokened a turning point in the year: the worst rigours of winter had been left behind and ...

The opening of the 24th Olympic Winter Games betokened a brilliant bond between China and the Olympics as it coincided with "Lichun," or the Start of Spring, the first of the Chinese 24 solar terms.

For in Paris the events of the 20th of July demonstrated what efficiency and resolution could achieve. The machinery of revolt moved with a well-ordered precision which betokened careful and tireless ...

Thirdly, Professor Toynbee creates for himself a king-sized dilemma in his own proposal for a substitute “Faith” that he feels might avoid the hybris he sees betokened by the claim to ...