Sentence examples for looks propitious from inspiring English sources

So far he has ruled it out, but the timing looks propitious.

Of course things can change in the Middle East — of late very fast — but if Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, is inclined to take risks from strength, the present looks propitious.

The timing looked propitious.

He had known he was different as a child growing up in Nakawala, his ancestral village; his twin brother, John, had noticed it too, and simply laughed when, after years, he came out to him.The new year looked propitious.

Developments in Brussels that look propitious for Mr Cameron's agenda including the emergence, under the hitherto reviled Jean-Claude Juncker, of a leaner, more self-critical EU Commission together with polls that show support for Britain's EU membership, have persuaded Mr Cameron's advisers that he could get by with his usual last-ditch aplomb.

The situation does not look propitious for positive movement anytime soon.

Whether Labour will prosper in the south outside London, where it lacks both councillors and MPs, is less clear.Although the London race looks increasingly propitious for Labour, it may not be such a bad thing for the party if Mr Johnson hangs on.

The intelligent production scenario looks very propitious.

That is not just money, but a trade-off of lower yields for more resistance (ie, the opposite of what Borlaug achieved).But if the signs in the laboratory look propitious, out in the fields the distribution problems are formidable.

Thursday's roads into Bath look more propitious, if far from flat, while Friday features what should be a decisive uphill finish on Dartmoor, on the Haytor climb where Simon Yates, a winner in the current Vuelta a España, triumphed when still an amateur in 2013.

If any of the IDD genes have a role in linking sucrose metabolism to plant development, it might be propitious to look for such a function amongst the maize, rice and Arabidopsis IDD genes that are most closely related to PCP1.