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.
"But they are fewer the farther down you go .The Lib Dems are also unlikely to enjoy again as propitious a set of circumstances as those surrounding the last election.
Mr Mikoyan, who on Thursday was on his way to Cuba, may be able to persuade Dr Castro that the time, and mood, are not propitious for bargaining hard with the United Nations as well as defying the United States.The desire to raise his own voice above the din encouraged Dr Castro to make his unseasonable demands.
Rather than declaring another one, says Dmitri Trenin of the Carnegie Moscow Centre, Mr Putin was staking a claim to be the leader of the global opposition calculating that Iraq made this a propitious time to announce Russia's candidacy.For the Americans, all that is troubling, but less than catastrophic.
Here are three reasons why such complacency is dangerous and wrong.First, the propitious circumstances in Brussels, which also include Germany's resolve to keep Britain in and widening discontent with the EU migration that fuels British Euroscepticism, do not resolve the central flaw in the prime minister's gambit.
