Sentence examples for more propitious times from inspiring English sources

It didn't in more propitious times.

But the risk is growing that they will sit this election out, waiting for more propitious times in 2008.Over the next two months, then, most political activity will be on the Democratic side.

But Kidd and his posse should be heartened to know that it took Kate Mosse two years, in much more propitious times, to get the Orange prize off the ground.

Izaguirre was a member of the day's early escape group; in more propitious times he would have been there to act as support when Quintana or Alejandro Valverde attacked behind, but Movistar's hopes of victory had evaporated on Wednesday.

It could not have happened at a more propitious time.

Bigshot Democrats can then prepare for battle at a more propitious time.

King vowed to complete the march at a more propitious time.

Though the Schoolhouse Foundation has been in the works for at least two years, it could hardly be getting under way at a more propitious time, it would seem.

Yes, it's more competitive, but I'm taking over the party at a much more propitious time than John [Hume] did in 1979, when the security agenda dominated and the British government would not have risked any initiatives".

Since The Great Gatsby landed in mid-May, the arthouse market has seen a trickle of relatively tiny pictures – distributors evidently felt it was better to wait for a more propitious time when dating niche titles with crossover appeal.

These measures must be quickly enacted: a value-added tax; a cut in the Defense Department budget of 50 percent; a cut in government by merging departments and agencies; postponement of all government salary raises until a more propitious time; a cut in Congressional junketeering of 75 percent; and a cut in the Congressional franking privilege of 75 percent.