Sentence examples for * propitious in from inspiring English sources

The timing of its entry into Manhattan is propitious in Mr. Blair's view.

The timing of his birth was considered propitious; in Nepalese astrology, having an eldest son in December signals good things to come.

Anything with "108" in it was deemed to be very propitious in India and the east, and so it was a favourite unit in which to design a citadel or a wall.

They shape a context which is more propitious in some ways than the one in which Paddy Ashdown operated when Blair could have swallowed the Lib Dems alive, and almost as good as the one Charles Kennedy enjoyed after he had been vindicated over the war.

It is, of course, too early to say whether either of these constitutions will survive to adulthood, but circumstances do not appear propitious in either country.

Research comprising flower-specific promotor sequences in genetic transformations seems to be especially propitious in providing the ability to express the transferred gene only in flowers or even more specifically, only in senescing flowers.

This was the start of a supposedly propitious run-in for Palace, in which they meet no teams currently above eighth.

The timing was propitious: interest in poetry in translation was growing in the early 60s and a number of poets were already engaged in serious and systematic translation work.

As it happens, Mr. Bell could hardly have been born in a more propitious spot in 1967 than Bloomington, the home of Indiana University, with its vast and excellent school of music.

That is not just money, but a trade-off of lower yields for more resistance (ie, the opposite of what Borlaug achieved).But if the signs in the laboratory look propitious, out in the fields the distribution problems are formidable.

Trades in water have emerged in a few regions where conditions are propitious and in parts of the Indian subcontinent where farmers have surplus groundwater, but their global scale is marginal and their potential is likely to remain limited.Markets will drive change in other ways, signalling scarcity and producing the required adjustments to farmers' behaviour.