It will be the two leaders' first encounter for a year and the timing is not propitious.
The timing of Dr. Albright's meeting proposal is not propitious for Mr. Kostunica for another reason.
The timing of the second series of the Great British Food Revival (BBC2), for example, is not propitious.
The Bush strategy is to make the abortion issue go away, and, for his campaign, the timing of today's ruling is not propitious.
For if the ideological climate is not propitious for environmentalism just now, the political environment could hardly be more opportune for a party of radical protest.
It might just be biding its time, but Kagan makes a good case that its geopolitical position is not propitious: while the United States is flanked by oceans, China is encircled by wary, watchful neighbors.
Yet a corrupt cadre of Spartan priests, given to slobbering loathsomely over beautiful dancing girls, tries to tell Leonidas that the time is not propitious for Sparta to go to war.
By Mollie Panter-Downes The New Yorker, November 8 , 1947P. 115...The instability of life today is not propitious for novel writing, apparently, to judge by the absence of any important novel in the autumn list.
Passage in a dugout canoe through the rapids of Anaite, about 20 km downstream, and through other rapids at about the same distance farther on, between El Cayo and Piedras Negras, is at best unnerving; at other times, when the level of the river is not propitious, the journey cannot be recommended at all.
