Sentence examples for found propitious from inspiring English sources

He said: "There was something about the way that the camera gave an instant image of the view being photographed that he found propitious, and useful, for his task of location hunting.

It is all thin gruel, but – here's the irony – if Mr Cameron had only engaged with his partners, instead of posturing, he would have found propitious circumstances for his agenda.

Four years ago, after starting up, Mr. Carmichael found himself facing a propitious opportunity: A local television station doing a story on chief executives of start-ups wanted to interview him for the segment, at his office.

Thus, even in the context of islands that are not completely isolated from the regular invasion by individuals from the mainland (such as the Baleares, the Caribbean or the Canaries), or from other nearby islands (such as the Galapagos), small islands have been found to be particularly propitious to speciation in all sorts of genera (birds, lizards, mammals, insects...)...

For its part, the badly shaken government in Damascus might find this a propitious moment to accept a deal as a way back from the abyss, even if this would most likely mean Mr. Assad's eventual exit in the future.

P medium was found to be the most propitious medium; the proteins released by local strains (B. sphaericus EMCC 1931 and EMCC 1932) in P medium followed by NYS medium were more lethal than that produced in the other tested media.

Among the studied sites, the high food availability found in the Bidasoa estuary is propitious for achieving long and healthy active reproductive periods in mussels.

"My children found one, this year seems to be quite propitious".

In a recent telephone interview Mr. Kelman discussed the data, along with numbers from a similar Redfin survey on the most propitious day of the week to list a home — which found that Fridays brought the quickest, most profitable results.

This building was also once a synagogue, a fact that Whiteread finds oddly circular and propitious.

And in the small, low-ceilinged rooms of the Brontë Parsonage Museum, with its scant collection of childhood toys, I found a model for the way writerly selves can be forged from less than propitious circumstances.