Propitious circumstances for the opposition, you might think.Apparently not.
It is all thin gruel, but – here's the irony – if Mr Cameron had only engaged with his partners, instead of posturing, he would have found propitious circumstances for his agenda.
Second, natural disasters arguably lead to population displacement, formation of camps, overcrowding, and therefore, propitious circumstances for an epidemic.
With the promise of more long-term ECB loans to come, borrowing costs for euro-zone governments have fallen sharply, in part because banks have put some of the money to work by buying high-yielding bonds (see article).It is damning, in such propitious circumstances, that Portugal has not shared in the rush.
In less propitious circumstances, voters might have hesitated before voting for a measure to cap immigration that Swiss business recognises has delivered wealth-generating skills and substantial economic benefits.
And his family's never very propitious circumstances received a blow when, after the war, his father was imprisoned for his fascist sympathies.
And in the small, low-ceilinged rooms of the Brontë Parsonage Museum, with its scant collection of childhood toys, I found a model for the way writerly selves can be forged from less than propitious circumstances.
Moderate suburban voters do not see the world as liberals do, even in the most propitious circumstances, and never will.
Their current weapon of necessity is terrorism but, given propitious circumstances, they can work through the ballot box as well.
Since light is a form of electromagnetic radiation it will, if the circumstances are propitious, induce an electric field in a dielectric material, and thus interact with that material.The task Mr Yanik and Dr Fan set themselves was to design appropriately propitious circumstances.
Another former shadow cabinet member said it was difficult to imagine a less propitious set of circumstances for a new leader of the opposition in parliament.
