Bleak Present, Bleaker Future Burmese people talk hopefully, but passively, about the propitious power of the number 13.
In early 1963, Vogel had to close Cinema 16 for economic reasons ("a one-cent postal increase amounted to $1000 per year," he wrote), but the timing was propitious: Lincoln Center was about to inaugurate the New York Film Festival, and Vogel was hired to co-program it, along with Richard Roud.
In the hardscrabble town of Pahrump, Nevada, in 2010, I witnessed a conversation between conservatives about the most propitious moment to militarily challenge this government.
As Precious wins awards on the festival circuit, there is a feeling that this is a propitious time for a truthful, sympathetic film about the African-American underclass.
Many take the simple fact that the two nations, jointly responsible for more than 40percentt of the world's greenhouse gas emissions, are even talking seriously to each other about the issue as a propitious sign after years of mutual distrust.
Montreal, Canada, with a population of about 3 million, is a propitious locale for such analyses, with approximately 25,000 jobs in the textile and clothing industries, and 1000 companies in the metropolitan Montreal area.
A mystery train — in this case the sleek, high-speed Italo, the first private competitor to Italy's state-run railway — seemed a propitious start to a conversation with Mr. Parks about his new book, "Italian Ways: On and Off the Rails from Milan to Palermo," in which he explores his adopted country through its trains, the lifeblood of a fragmented nation.
The period from about 800 to 1200 was the most propitious for Byzantine astrology, though nothing was essentially added to astrological theories or techniques.
A low N2 flow rate was propitious to the C C stack; the peak power output was about 740 mW at N2 flow rate of 100 cm3 min−100
Voters are exasperated with their governments and with Europe; anti-establishment groups are on the rise and may come top in some places.Europe may be about to test de Tocqueville's contention that the most propitious time for revolution is not when conditions are worsening, but when they start to improve.
