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be opportune

adjective

Suitable for some particular purpose.

  • This would be an opportune spot for a picnic

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At times, it can even be opportune: last year in Hanoi, the leaders issued a statement condemning North Korea's test of a nuclear device the previous month.

"The issue is being exhaustively studied by the commissions in charge of investigating the occurrence, so it would not be opportune to make any statement about the events," the air force said in a statement to reporters in September.

To remove the appearance of paradox from the truth that beautiful objects, beautiful things, do not exist, it may be opportune to recall the analogous case of economic science, which knows perfectly well that in the sphere of economics there are no naturally or physically useful things, but only demand and labour, from which physical things acquire, metaphorically, this epithet.

Now that R&B is rediscovering its experimental fringe, with songwriters like Frank Ocean, Miguel and the Weeknd, the time may be opportune for Bilal, a songwriter from Philadelphia who has been on that fringe since the neosoul boom of the 1990s, when he began extrapolating from Stevie Wonder and Prince.

Ms Fisher thinks she can lure most visiting productions up to the colonial splendour and relative luxury of San Miguel.Her timing could also be opportune, because despite the many accolades heaped on recent Mexican productions, the public funding of the old Churubusco studios and government film school in Mexico City is being reviewed by the country's cash-strapped finance ministry.

He wonders if it might not be opportune to end this as signment after Pompidou's U.S. journey, saying: "The right time to leave a job is just as im portant as the right time to start a job". But in no sense would such a decision imply dissatisfaction with his role as a Democrat working for a Re publican Administration or un happiness with this stimulating foreign post.

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Mr. Ma's timing was opportune.

A review of these studies is opportune.

The timing, for the authors, at least, is opportune.

Still, the timing of his book is opportune.

The timing was opportune: Karzai was on a trip to Europe, in search of financial backing.

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