Sentence examples for are not propitious from inspiring English sources

The prospects for the stragglers are not propitious.

A true 1980s believer who was there at the time, he is nonetheless sharp enough to recognise that these are not propitious times for pointing the finger at an enemy within.

Mr Mikoyan, who on Thursday was on his way to Cuba, may be able to persuade Dr Castro that the time, and mood, are not propitious for bargaining hard with the United Nations as well as defying the United States.The desire to raise his own voice above the din encouraged Dr Castro to make his unseasonable demands.

The results show that introduction of severe steric hindrance and/or electron-withdrawing group at C-16 site are not propitious to improving the yields of the coupling reaction, and the SAR information collected so far suggests that small alkyl groups substituted at C-16 of vindoline are conductive to maintaining the cytotoxicity.

Our planets were not propitious.

Unfortunately the morning was not propitious for the occasion.

The psephology of Newark was not propitious for Ukip.

THE auguries for Enrico Letta's new left-right government were not propitious.

Despite having all the advantages of a Hollywood kid, his childhood and adolescence were not propitious.

It will be the two leaders' first encounter for a year and the timing is not propitious.

The timing of the attack, hours before President Clinton met Mr. Arafat to discuss truce arrangements, was not propitious.