Sentence examples for is hardly propitious from inspiring English sources

The timing is hardly propitious.

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.

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

This is hardly a propitious time to take the task on, given that the rest of the world including, most notably, Japan's biggest export market, the United States is also now in, or close to, a recession.

An ugly Ferrari has won champion-ships before – Jody Scheckter's 312T4, another with a misshapen nose, which carried off both titles in 1979 – but the shape of the F2012 is hardly a propitious augury for its drivers, Fernando Alonso and Felipe Massa, and mixed performance in testing has increased the pressure on two men with a lot on their minds.

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

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

This is hardly surprising.

Sucrose was hardly hydrolyzed.

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.