No Davis season started out under less auspicious circumstances.
Few presidents have entered office under less auspicious circumstances than those confronting Chester Arthur in September 1881.
Bill Clinton won the presidency under far more auspicious circumstances; eight years later, he hardly departs as a failure, but many already talk of his presidency in terms of wasted opportunities.
On the other hand, those which managed to get funding under less auspicious circumstances were more likely to be successful for having been battle-tested.
She hoped to stand as a Labour MP, and did stand for the Scottish parliament several times, but never under the auspicious circumstances favoured candidates can expect.
Edwards looks at presidents governing in less auspicious circumstances, and reveals that whatever successes these presidents enjoyed also resulted from the interplay of conditions and the presidents' skills at understanding and exploiting them.
Governors sent from Beijing would invariably begin by attempting to impose state control, but gradually accepted private enterprise as the only way to eke out growth.As China came out of its Maoist gloom, Zhejiang's scrappy entrepreneurs had already acquired, in the least auspicious circumstances, a culture of opportunity and a belief that anyone could become successful.
Education reformers began the year under auspicious circumstances.
His new orchestra to rival the Philharmonia would, he told Legge, be launched in "the most auspicious circumstances and éclat".
The fortune tellers would emphasize auspicious circumstances to enhance their earnings, especially when doing readings for pregnant women.
But the good ones can get sent across the border under more auspicious circumstances, to spread democracy abroad with automatic weapons, courtesy our uniformed services.
