Sentence examples for were propitious from inspiring English sources

But the times were propitious for something new.

He thinks it helped, but only because the economic circumstances were propitious.

Especially at the beginning, when circumstances were propitious, Mr Yushchenko should have been tougher.Instead, his presidency was crippled by his revolutionary debts.

"I puttered around Saturday morning and then in the early afternoon, seeing that the currents were propitious, hopped in the skiff and rowed 10 miles out to Montauk for a delicious cheeseburger at the Star Island Yacht Club and rowed home into the setting sun and the southwest sea breeze -- another perfect day".

Labour's slump in the polls it is around 20 points behind in most surveys may be too deep for it to recover from.An easy explanation for this reversal is that Mr Cameron has been lucky: he happened to be in charge when the circumstances were propitious for a Tory revival.

The porous PTFE layer supplied a hydrophobic environment and a large specific surface area for the immobilization of lipases which were propitious to the activation of lipase.

The timing was propitious.

His timing was propitious.

The timing is propitious.

Early signs are propitious.

His timing is propitious.