With the hotel industry struggling in the downturn, this might not seem a propitious time to be opening a large hotel.
This is not a propitious way to open a dialogue with the Chinese government on whether Google will be able to serve up unfiltered search results in China.
It might not seem a propitious moment to open an antiquities collection to public view, given recent claims by Italy and Greece that some artifacts in American collections were looted from their soil.
It opened May 7, 1663, in the propitious era of Restoration drama, and produced plays by John Dryden, among others.
Sadly, these opened for business in October 2008 the least propitious moment imaginable for such a venture.In this section Wild East or scientific feast?
While the Financial Times has warned that Osborne faces a £20bn black hole in his accounts, the poll is a propitious political backdrop for a chancellor preparing to open his budget red box next Wednesday.
Meanwhile, in what many consider propitious timing, a project is under way next door: a new, more spacious co-op building with affordable housing units on top, scheduled to open in April.
Mr. Fortunoff, who is the grandson of the Max and Clara Fortunoff, who opened the doors of their first store in Brooklyn in 1922, said demographic studies indicated a move to Westchester would be propitious.
"Any day is propitious for talking with President Barack Obama," Mr. Chávez said at a news conference here with foreign journalists ahead of a referendum on Sunday that could open the way for him to hold on to power indefinitely.
— Heaven prosper the manufactures of paper under this propitious reign, which is now open'd to us, — as I trust its providence will prosper every thing else in it that is taken in hand.
Propitious circumstances for the opposition, you might think.Apparently not.
