Sentence examples for hardly propitious from inspiring English sources

The timing is hardly propitious.

Stiles hoped to develop his College into a University - but the times were hardly propitious.

This should have been shown long ago ; but the present moment is hardly propitious for drastic measures.

Amid recession, austerity and the problematic politics of coalition, the climate is hardly propitious for a massive overhaul of care for the elderly and disabled.

ON THE face of it, conditions are hardly propitious for an improvement in Japan's strained relations with its East Asian neighbours.

The Empire State building was completed in 1931, a year that also saw a Hooverville go up in Central Park; the current economic crisis is not quite so deep, but the moment is, then as now, hardly propitious.

Hardly a propitious beginning for someone going it alone.

It was hardly a propitious moment to call for a new socialist state.

But this is hardly a propitious moment to oppose the war, he was quick to add.

Although it was hardly a propitious time to start a business, Dillard's prospered almost from the start.

At a time when American flags were popping up on T-shirts and car antennas, publishing such an analysis hardly seemed propitious.