It means speaking out forcefully on the widespread abuse of women -- even when it seems inopportune.
Given the global economic challenges and the trend toward downloading, this might seem an inopportune time to be releasing boxed sets.
It might seem an inopportune time, then, for politicians and bureaucrats to start talking about the need for further political and economic integration among the 27 members to tackle underlying weaknesses of the European enterprise.
With violence raging in the Middle East and lofty oil prices drawing harsh criticism of petroleum companies, it might seem an inopportune time for Chevron and Texaco to announce a merger that opens them to the scrutiny of the federal government and the jittery stock market.
The rocky debt market would make it seem an inopportune time for Visa to price its offering, but the company is only a processor of credit-card transactions, not a lender, so its books are clean and free of the loan-related wounds that have scarred so many financial firms of late.
This is not lost on voters, so it seems an inopportune time for the unions to go to war.
The momentum for reform ebbed once the economy began to improve; then reform seemed particularly inopportune once the economy soured again.Furthermore, Mr Fukuda's cabinet will have to operate in difficult times for the world economy.
Although Mr. Romney has become a better campaigner in many ways, he cannot seem to stop making inopportune remarks.
If this is a connected world where the economy will be increasingly dictated by data, then now seems a particularly inopportune moment for Europe to be fracturing as a single market.
James M. Margolin, a spokesman for the F.B.I.'s offices in New York, declined to comment on the changes, which seem to come at an inopportune time: The city is experiencing a surge in the number of armed bank robberies, including seven attributed to Marat Mikhaylich, who has been called the Holiday Bandit for the heists that began to increase in frequency around Christmas.
