It is hard to conceive of a more propitious time to act on that hope than now, and difficult to imagine two places that need it more than Congo and Sudan.
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.
There are more propitious places to turn out.
This year Italy will once again have the slowest-growing economy in the European Union.The centre-left opposition, led by a former prime minister (and former president of the European Commission), Romano Prodi, could hardly have wished for a more propitious start to an election year.
And, as far as I could see, neither did anyone else, though most of us must have marched at least five miles back and forth in the hope of finding a more propitious station whereon to stab the air with our thumbs: futile Jack Horners were we.
The Bush campaign has taken the discussion of the war, whose specifics are so unfavorable to him, to the much more propitious level of generalization: Democrats and the international community are incapable of responding to evil and to danger: Don't you feel safer with Bush in the White House?
[cartoon id= a9651"] The Bush campaign has taken the discussion of the war, whose specifics are so unfavorable to him, to the much more propitious level of generalization: Democrats and the international community are incapable of responding to evil and to danger: Don't you feel safer with Bush in the White House?
Politicians, whether Christian or Buddhist, flock to them, asking, for instance, whether relocating their ancestors' remains to a more propitious site might ensure victory.
She wanted to move the statue, which she had planted near the front door in May, to a perhaps more propitious spot.
But he prefers to wait for a more propitious moment, he said, adding that he "thinks" he will endorse Mr. Sharon now.
