Sentence examples for in a propitious from inspiring English sources

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.

If Mr Clegg airs the same frustration with disgruntled Lib Dems that the New Labourites once felt about the old left then that is perhaps because he is convinced that he is in a propitious place.

There is a bit of air coming through the window that purifies the atmosphere, but the bitter coffee puts me in a propitious place, to put my thoughts on paper.

Jenny (64 years old, HIV-positive for 23 years) described a situation of disclosure in a propitious setting: " I started talking without ever thinking I was going to tell the person about it.

Stubbs arrived in London at a propitious time, coinciding with an increased interest in hunting and racing.

(He lost to Federico Fellini, for "8½.") Polanski landed in Hollywood at a propitious moment.

In the 1930s, a propitious gold inflow allowed the administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt to conduct monetary expansion without the Fed.

Envoys of Emperor Alexius Comnenus thus arrived at the Council of Piacenza in 1095 at a propitious moment, and it seems probable that Pope Urban II viewed military aid as a means toward restoring ecclesiastical unity.

If Narendra Modi, India's prime minister, is to kick-start spending on infrastructure, weaker investment in China forms a propitious backdrop.Across the Strait of Malacca from the coalmines of Pauh, Karex, a Malaysian firm that is the world's biggest producer of condoms, has been boosted both by the shifting composition of China's imports and by the resulting movement in commodity prices.

Enactment of the Cancer Moonshot within the 21st Century Cures Act in the USA arrived at a propitious moment in the advancement of knowledge, providing nearly US$2 billion of funding for cancer research and precision medicine.

Trained in London at the Royal School of Needlework, Ms. Wilson arrived in the United States at a propitious moment.