Sentence examples for propitious from inspiring English sources

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".

Anything with "108" in it was deemed to be very propitious in India and the east, and so it was a favourite unit in which to design a citadel or a wall.

But now, in the most propitious of circumstances, they were unable to go one better and claim the parliamentary seat which still eludes them.

It didn't in more propitious times.

Besides drying it (which can be done in a kiln, by those in a hurry), exposure to the elements makes the wood's chemistry even more propitious by reducing the levels of chemicals such as tannins, whose astringency can be detrimental to the spirit's flavour.

Especially at the beginning, when circumstances were propitious, Mr Yushchenko should have been tougher.Instead, his presidency was crippled by his revolutionary debts.

It will be the two leaders' first encounter for a year and the timing is not propitious.