Although Mr. Romney has become a better campaigner in many ways, he cannot seem to stop making inopportune remarks.
"The current vacancy in the Court Administration position, in addition to several other urgent matters in our court, make this an inopportune time for me to reduce my commitment to the citizens of Centre County," he added.
The rocky debt market would make it seem an inopportune time for Visa to price its offering, but the company is only a processor of credit-card transactions, not a lender, so its books are clean and free of the loan-related wounds that have scarred so many financial firms of late.
Funds have also made some spectacularly inopportune purchases.
"Inopportune" might also make an observer think of the fall or rise of the automobile industry.
Throughout the tournament, Arconada had excelled, but very much like Oliver Kahn in the 2002 World Cup final, he chose an inopportune moment to make a mistake.
The French Banking Federation said in a statement that the bill would "create new constraints and additional charges at an inopportune moment, when the banks must make considerable efforts to adapt to the Basel III capital rules".
He said: "Islam must be treated like a religion like any other" and attacked "inopportune declarations by politicians who want to make political capital on the question of Islam".
While this might rankle some folks at work, it could be a great way to make sure junior stops with the underpants party at inopportune times or a quick and easy fix for libraries and schools who essentially have to take a zero-tolerance approach to all this.
Some worried that the staff scientist might leave at an inopportune moment, making the lab less, not more, stable.
