Sentence examples for as a propitious from inspiring English sources

While the bus made it on to TV in Indonesia, where its presence was taken as a propitious omen for tourism, it has also had more than its share of onboard dramas.

Indeed, the latest figures on the market for houses priced at "entry level" — in New Jersey, that would be $400,000 or less — do peg this as a propitious moment for buyers, if they can just qualify for a mortgage.

Butler -- whose books include "A Good Scent From a Strange Mountain," which won a Pulitzer Prize in 1993, and "Tabloid Dreams" -- tries to fudge this by having Desi say he's merely obeying orders and that the millennium is regarded as a propitious time by humanity.

Many take the simple fact that the two nations, jointly responsible for more than 40percentt of the world's greenhouse gas emissions, are even talking seriously to each other about the issue as a propitious sign after years of mutual distrust.

It seems that the antagonist might be considered as a propitious therapeutic agent in suppressing drug-seeking behaviors.

Based on innovative nanotechnology design, we showed a novel water-soluble anionic carbosilane dendrimer (2G-S16) as a propitious molecule against HIV-infection.

Graham's emergence as an evangelist came at a propitious moment for 20th-century Protestants.

Charles La Hood, the chief of photoduplication at the Library of Congress in the seventies, wrote, "Microfilming came at a propitious time, as the Library of Congress was experiencing an acute space problem in its newspaper collection".

For Iraq, the bolstering of its influence comes at a propitious time, as George W. Bush, a son of the man who waged war against Baghdad, takes the helm of a shaky American economy and as more countries and international oil companies express the desire to see the sanctions lifted.

He arrived at a propitious moment.

Longfellow lived at a propitious time.