Sentence examples for had been propitious from inspiring English sources

Up to this time the tenor of life at Steventon rectory had been propitious for Jane Austen's growth as a novelist.

Mr Obama argued that Democrats had made a mistake in refusing to address religious issues or court evangelical voters.Nor should the circumstances have been propitious for a repeat of the culture wars.

Malaria remains an important disease in Latin America and the Caribbean, where 30.4% (264 million) of the 869 million persons live in areas where ecologic conditions have been propitious for the transmission of malaria (1 ).

BCL11A Genetic association studies using HbF as a phenotype have been propitious because of the high heritability of HbF and F-cells, the stability and quantitative nature of the phenotype and because as luck would have it a few quantitative trait loci explained between 10 to 50%% of HbF variability in a population [ 74, 75].

At Harvard, he had been an undergraduate in a propitious cohort: his college contemporaries went on to take the helms of the Times, Columbia Journalism School, and other vaunted institutions of the trade.

Guay's determination of the most propitious moment for the explosion had been based on a simple-minded faith in the dependability of airline timetables.

THE timing could hardly have been less propitious.

In fact, 11 December 1908 must have been a propitious date.

The timing of the conference could not have been more propitious.

And yet Saint Laurent's decision to rebel against the cult of innovation seems to have been extremely propitious.

And, with fears of fresh terrorist attacks mounting all over Europe, the timing could not have been less propitious.