Sentence examples for inauspicious background from inspiring English sources

Their family was one of farmers and gentry, an inauspicious background for his subsequent diplomatic career.

It was of course an inauspicious background for any managerial new dawn, coming just a couple of hours after the FA's announcement that Mark Clattenburg had no case to answer over Chelsea's accusations of racial abuse against Mikel John Obi.

Worse still, he not only denied being influenced by any lobbying but also rammed through his choice in public in a bitterly contested 3-2 vothreateningning the commission's consensual norm.Despite this inauspicious background, Mr Webster could yet prove a success.

She would bring more than enough money to the marriage, and despite Carl's peasant background and inauspicious career, he was keenly intelligent and hard-working.

An inauspicious start indeed.

The circumstances look inauspicious.

The start was inauspicious.

An inauspicious first cap.

Circumstances that day were inauspicious.

The timing was especially inauspicious.

It was an inauspicious debut.