Being at the center of that is a propitious position.
The first nuclear era, from the late 1940s through the 1990s, which was dominated by the nuclear standoff between the Soviet Union and the United States, seemed propitious for this view of the world.
The timing of its entry into Manhattan is propitious in Mr. Blair's view.
First viewing of R.M. not propitious -- a rather large woman of a certain age, with loose gray clothing and hair in a bun.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has taken full advantage of what he views as a more propitious climate in Washington, DC under the Trump administration to embark on a massive expansion of Israel's illegal settlement drive in the Palestinian West Bank.
The latest statement says, in effect: We still want to talk to you—and there are even more of us now—and we want to talk to other Christian leaders too.As it happens, the timing of the initiative could be propitious from the Vatican's point of view.
He said: "There was something about the way that the camera gave an instant image of the view being photographed that he found propitious, and useful, for his task of location hunting.
It might not seem a propitious moment to open an antiquities collection to public view, given recent claims by Italy and Greece that some artifacts in American collections were looted from their soil.
Envoys of Emperor Alexius Comnenus thus arrived at the Council of Piacenza in 1095 at a propitious moment, and it seems probable that Pope Urban II viewed military aid as a means toward restoring ecclesiastical unity.
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.
