Sentence examples for unpropitious time from inspiring English sources

The earnings shortfall and lagging stock come at an unpropitious time for Michael R. Bonsignore, Honeywell's chief executive.

People age 70 ½ or older need enough liquidity in their retirement accounts to take required minimum distributions without having to sell securities at an unpropitious time, like the current bear market.

In such unpropitious times, that inaugural award for specialist journalism may well prove to be the last.

There is at least one living idea, however, that Reid has handed on to the 21st-century left and deserves to be nurtured even in difficult and seemingly unpropitious times.

What unpropitious timing for America to attack Pakistan at the dawn of new democratic elections ("U.S. Attack on Taliban Compound Kills 23 in Pakistani Border Area," news article, Sept. 9).

Lean Forward, Spring (1948) was the volume that caught Sassoon's eye, offering behind that unpropitious title a poetry that conveyed rural life and atmosphere with precise observation and some drama, as in these lines from Lyric Afternoon: The afternoon closed round us like a witch Grey-haired with rain.

No time could be more unpropitious for a journey through that land.

This time and place were unpropitious enough on their own: had Hobsbawm not moved to England after the Nazis came to power in 1933, he might have become a statistic.

Time and again in the book, Knausgaard displays a talent for experiencing the maximum shame in even the most unpropitious circumstances.

Geography, too, was unpropitious.

The circumstances of his selection in 1994 were unpropitious.