Sentence examples for propitious day from inspiring English sources

"It's a long and complicated story, but the cornerstone was laid on an astrologically propitious day".

On April 13-14 an estimated four million pilgrims ritually bathed in the Ganges to mark the most propitious day of the festival.

Yesterday Jews across the world celebrated the festival of Purim, or Lots, which derives its name from the lots cast by the villain of a Biblical story, Haman, to determine the most propitious day for the extermination of the Jews of Persia, and which commemorates the events recounted in the Hebrew scriptural book of Esther.

In a recent telephone interview Mr. Kelman discussed the data, along with numbers from a similar Redfin survey on the most propitious day of the week to list a home — which found that Fridays brought the quickest, most profitable results.

"Any day is propitious for talking with President Barack Obama," Mr. Chávez said at a news conference here with foreign journalists ahead of a referendum on Sunday that could open the way for him to hold on to power indefinitely.

In fact, 11 December 1908 must have been a propitious date.

Thursday's roads into Bath look more propitious, if far from flat, while Friday features what should be a decisive uphill finish on Dartmoor, on the Haytor climb where Simon Yates, a winner in the current Vuelta a España, triumphed when still an amateur in 2013.

Good Friday seems a propitious time to examine the broad outline of these various depictions – particularly in view of the fact that, this very week, they have been thrown into arresting relief by the publication of The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ, a wonderfully fresh reworking of the Gospel stories by Philip Pullman.

With Eid, marking the end of Ramadan, falling on Saturday, the weekend proved a propitious time to release films aimed at the UK's south Asian markets.

Because I did not want Bush's repetition of it to go unnoticed, I thought the time ripe, the day upon us and the hour propitious to take this opportunity to.... Plus Which As Bill Clinton prepares to leave the White House, constitutionally forbidden to return as its principal occupant, some wonder: what will we miss most about his tenure?

On Friday night the company made a propitious debut with a delightful production of Mozart's "Sogno di Scipione" ("The Dream of Scipione"), staged by Christopher Alden.