How To Use Propitious In A Sentence
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The time was propitious for the banding together of women in self-defence.
DEATH AND TRANSFIGURATION
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The United States was founded on the pro-liberty ideals of the eighteenth century; the nineteenth century might not have provided such propitious foundations.
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This journalistic term can be used to describe an innocent delay of a story until a more propitious moment, or a manipulative delay of a story until it can do the most damage.
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Liberal Saudi spokesmen explained that not all were opposed to women's driving, but that the incident came at an unpropitious moment.
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It initially had to be postponed two weeks out of concerns that the country's political chaos were unpropitious to success.
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The time was propitious for the banding together of women in self-defence.
DEATH AND TRANSFIGURATION
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Their marriage began unpropitiously when the groom - intending to instruct his bride in her marital duties - took her to watch a display of graphic lovemaking in a brothel.
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Nevertheless, even under these almost blasphemously unpropitious circumstances, the place seems to make a profound impact.
The Times Literary Supplement
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The straight horizontal and vertical strokes of the characters had been cut into the shapes of propitious things, such as lucky birds, lotuses and guavas.
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The summer of 1802 was thus a propitious moment to enhance Bonaparte's authority.
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The circumstances were not propitious for further expansion of the company.
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The dynamics of partnership bargaining are hardly propitious for the specific kinds of cooperation that marriage and family require.
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In 2001 the couple got married in the face of some unpropitious portents.
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Did non-involvement signify successful resistance or were villages simply waiting for a more propitious time to become engaged?
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14 B. (3) The Greek phrase is warmer, {theon d 'ileon onton}, "the gods being kindly and propitious.
The Cavalry General
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They should wait for the most propitious moment between now and the next election.
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In sooth, the year in question had been very propitious to the immigrants; who, flocking in from eastern settlements in goodly numbers, were allowed to domiciliate themselves in their new homes, with but few exceptions, entirely unmolested by the savage foe.
Ella Barnwell A Historical Romance of Border Life
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In deeply unpropitious times, the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography has refreshed and fortified our sense of what can still be meant by the collective endeavour of ‘scholarship’.
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The world with all celebrate happiness, The world share propitiousness forever!
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It's also a propitious opportunity to literally move the debate out beyond the Beltway directly to the people.
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Sheridan the unpropitiousness of the season, particularly for a first experiment in authorship, and advised the postponement of the publication till October.
Memoirs of the Life of the Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan — Volume 01
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And a combatant could choose more propitious venues for the slugfest than the steps of the Hotel Ukraine in the heart of Moscow, hard by Lenin's tomb where minions of the Red Army goosestep in jackboots at all hours.
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Where the moral formation of a people is deficient, the general will malign, or historical circumstance unpropitious, democracy is quite unambiguously wicked in its results.
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Wang also mentioned that her Chinese name sounds unpropitious.
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Conditions after the 1905 revolution were propitious for stable development.
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But why revive the founder's show at all at so unpropitious a time?
The Times Literary Supplement
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We all admired him, in these rather unpropitious circumstances, and then it was time for action.
Times, Sunday Times
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Explicit knowledge might not only be propitious to completion of tasks, but also inspire attentive process unrelated to the tasks in hand, disturbing implicit learning.
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If not selfless, then maybe Rashbrook is selfish in cementing her romantic bond with new cells - the everyday parental narcissism that is unlikely to be propitious for children.
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The dynamics of partnership bargaining are hardly propitious for the specific kinds of cooperation that marriage and family require.
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Sachs argues, that a syndrome of unpropitious circumstances enchain the poorest countries in a hand to mouth existence that prevents them investing in their future.
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He took up the canal as an issue at an unpropitious time; he generated so much popular support that the skeptics in the political class had to bow to it; he presided over both the groundbreaking and the completion.
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Fabulous diction, excellent vocabulary, I'm inspired to add "propitious" and "persiflage" into my daily rhetoric.
Easter Away!
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He witnessed also the disgrace of his bow Gandiva and the unpropitiousness of his celestial weapons.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3
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Hence it happens to be the responsibility of society to provide a propitious environment for the mentally challenged.
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Some whose natural endowments would, under less unpropitious circumstances, qualify them to reach the summit of fame, are fettered by want of patronage and pecuniary distress, while others are cramped in their efforts by a complexional sensibility which they cannot overcome, and checked in enterprise by diffidence and timidity, the natural offspring of a refined and delicate structure.
The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 5, May 1810
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The timing couldn't have been more propitious.
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The straight horizontal and vertical strokes of the characters had been cut into the shapes of propitious things, such as lucky birds, lotuses and guavas.
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The dynamics of partnership bargaining are hardly propitious for the specific kinds of cooperation that marriage and family require.
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This disenchantment with Keynesianism provided a propitious environment within which alternative approaches to economic analysis and political management could flourish.
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Whenever, therefore, they are treated harshly and contumeliously by men, let them take refuge in this thought, that God will be the more propitious to them.
Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2
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The simulation results reveal that this method can not only describe the particular work of modeling, but also be propitious to communication between the user and the developer.
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While there is scant information as to the details of their minor motor bike accident, the timing seems propitious for getting the athletes away from any immediate access to them.
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a by-election at a time highly unpropitious for the Government
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There was a brief, perfect Elizabethan moment when conditions were propitious and all was well.
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The prime minister is pursuing it in circumstances so unpropitious that they would have been unimaginable even eight months ago.
Times, Sunday Times
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The fates were again propitious for a brief period; but again a trivial incident interfered.
Archive 2008-12-01
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For several centuries Southwark remained rural, partly because it was low lying and unpropitious for building.
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We are therefore at a propitious moment for the development of a broader, more detailed theory of rhetoric in the cinema, one that would embrace all the persuasive, sensual, and emotional devices of the medium.
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– And indeed it was on these occasions that Mrs Rayland seemed to take peculiar pleasure in mortifying Mrs Somerive and her daughters; who dreaded these dinner days as those of the greatest penance; and who at Christmas, one of the periods of these formal dinners, have blest more than once the propitious snow; through which that important and magisterial personage, the body coachman of Mrs Rayland, did not choose to venture himself, or the six sleek animals of which he was sole governor; for on these occasions it was the established rule to send for the family, with the same solemnity and the same parade that had been used ever since the first sullen and reluctant reconciliation between Sir Hildebrand and his sister; when she dared to deviate from the fastidious arrogance of her family, and to marry a man who farmed his own estate – and who, though long settled as a very respectable land-owner, had not yet written Armiger after his name.
The Old Manor House
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Even the Pope feels it is politically unpropitious to avow any commitment to the RCC's official belief system.
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This isn't a propitious start for him, poor devil.
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Even under far less propitious circumstances, military occupations have commonly been successful.
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Lord Duko thought a change in allegiance seemed propitious ," said Subai.
SHARDS OF A BROKEN CROWN
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However unpropitious the news from Canterbury, however downcast by events at The Oval earlier in the week, Shane Warne was far from a cowed figure at Sophia Gardens yesterday.
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propitious gales speeded us along
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This was a daring and optimistic bet on what in the context was a largely new form of governance, coming to life and being tested under conditions that were hardly propitious.
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But the talks underway now could also allow Washington to generate a climate "propitious" for help on other issues where it needs Moscow's support, such as Iran and North Korea's controversial nuclear programmes, said Goldblat who is based at the Geneva International Peace Research institute.
Military Space News, Nuclear Weapons, Missile Defense
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I may instance his derivation of dismal from Latin dies mali, unpropitious days, derided by Trench, but now known to be substantially correct, and his intelligent conjecture that the much discussed word yeoman 'seemeth to be one word made by contraction of yong man,' an etymology quite recently revived — July 1921 — by the Oxford Dictionary.
On Dictionaries
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Conditions in the aftermath of the 1905 revolution were propitious for stable development in countryside and city alike.
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Two or three decades hence conditions may be propitious for the emergence of a new international system - one with many influential actors in a regime of organically evolving interdependence.
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He used to refer with great pleasure to a note from an old friend and fellow-student, the late Professor George Wilson, of Edinburgh, acknowledging a copy of his book in 1857: "Meanwhile, may your name be propitious; in all your long and weary journeys may the _Living_ half of your title outweigh the other; till after long and blessed labors, the white _stone_ is given you in the happy land.
The Personal Life of David Livingstone
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No one looks forward to the prospect of internecine warfare at so unpropitious a political moment.
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It could furnish the most propitious conditions for capturing popular sentiment and guaranteeing a successful campaign.
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Rarely has a superpower cared so much about a speck on the international diplomatic horizon; rarely at such a propitious moment in history have we had such good fortune.
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Explicit knowledge might not only be propitious to completion of tasks, but also inspire attentive process unrelated to the tasks in hand, disturbing implicit learning.
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Born unpropitiously into a man's world, she plays the role of a woman exuding exemplary tolerance.
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11 Arabia, in the opinion of the naturalist, is the genuine and original country of the horse; the climate most propitious, not indeed to the size, but to the spirit and swiftness, of that generous animal.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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Not because they drink water, but because the state of mind which makes them dread alcohol is unpropitious to the hatching of any generous idea.
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Defection on the way to Americanization was common; vitiated practice and invincible vagueness about belief and conviction were not a cause for alarm but the best that could be achieved under unpropitious conditions.
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Here the ordinary copies stop in forty-seven volumes, for the evil days of the Jesuits were coming on, and the new literary oligarchy, where Voltaire, Montesquieu, and D'Alembert held sway, had not been propitious to hagiology.
The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author
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They should wait for the most propitious moment between now and the next election.
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Old Church traditions and folklore warned against marrying unpropitiously, and forbade marriage during Lent and Advent.
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I will be merciful -- Greek, "propitious"; the Hebrew, "salach," is always used of God only in relation to men. and their iniquities -- not found in Vulgate, Syriac, Coptic, and one oldest Greek manuscript; but most oldest manuscripts have the words
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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In poor environments, members of the genus may also reproduce sexually to create a zygospore that sinks into the sediment at the bottom of the body of water, where it waits to emerge until more propitious circumstances arise.
Undefined
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Time and bait are both lost in the vain attempt: patiently he rebaits, until he finds the rebait brings his box of gentles to a discount; and then, in no gentle humour, with a baitless hook, and abated ardor, he winds up his line and his day's amusement (?) -- and departs, with the determination of trying fortune (who has tried him) on some, future and more propitious day.
Sketches — Complete
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Our men arrive at an unpropitious moment, just as Robert Mugabe drives a new set of repressive laws through his parliament and puts his foot on the necks of human rights organisations.
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a propitious alignment of planets for space exploration
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The work begins unpropitiously with the words: ‘After so much that has been written on this subject… it is difficult to say anything new upon the subject.
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As was clear then and since, this wasn't the most propitious moment to draw a line in the sand - neither Britain or France were in a position to actually defend Poland.
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propitious omens
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They should wait for the most propitious moment between now and the next election.
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As a man he felt it his duty to take over the brewery, but because his knowledge of beer was limited to the tasting, he thought to consult the stars as to the most propitious of moments to add the yeast to the barley.
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It was not a propitious time to start a new business.
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This is not propitious for making the most of our exciting new technologies.
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The Blog Quebecois is a good one despite its unpropitious location.
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Conditions after the 1905 revolution were propitious for stable development.
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Hearing propitious sounds, they came stringing in, and Haviland's explanation, with the celebration that followed it, took such a length of time that the longest, lankiest Phi fell asleep in the parlor and his lamp burned out about two.
Stanford Stories Tales of a Young University
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Today, however, the outlook can hardly be called propitious for the formation of a national consensus anywhere in the industrial world, and the chances for an equitable international sharing of wealth seem hopeless.
An Exchange on The Human Prospect
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Sachs argues, that a syndrome of unpropitious circumstances enchain the poorest countries in a hand to mouth existence that prevents them investing in their future.
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Perhaps unreasonable times are unpropitious for a fundamentally reasonable, levelheaded sensibility with an instinct to deflate.
The Times Literary Supplement
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So we can only speculate the side which will be propitious to the last result more.
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Conditions in the aftermath of the 1905 revolution were propitious for stable development in countryside and city alike.
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Such result will be propitious to the invasion of alterniflora.
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However, during the first week of April, after a sudden barometrical fall, a renewed rise was marked by a heavy gale of wind, lasting five or six days; then the needle of the instrument remained stationary at a height of twenty-nine inches and nine-tenths, and the weather appeared propitious for an excursion.
The Mysterious Island
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Noting that it is primarily the responsibility of the Government and its national partners to create the "propitious" conditions for the elections, he commends political leaders for adopting an electoral code that enjoys wide consensus and is encouraged by President Pierre Nkurunziza's assurance that the polls will be free, fair and peaceful.
Elections - fresh news by plazoo.com
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Explicit knowledge might not only be propitious to completion of tasks, but also inspire attentive process unrelated to the tasks in hand, disturbing implicit learning.
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The situation at the main British landing site at Helles, where the landings had begun at dawn, was equally unpropitious.
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One of the most unpropitious decisions a performing arts company can erroneously make is to stage a production in an ill-suited venue.
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A type of geomancy called fengshui involves manipulating one's surroundings in a propitious way.
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If ever they conclude that "peaceful coexistence" is impossible, the Politburo could launch a "preventive war" whenever the occasion seemed most propitious.
One Bite At A Time
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With the economy in the worst recession for thirty years, it was scarcely the most propitious time to start up a company.
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The little boy, who slipped and fell so unpropitiously a few days ago, lies fretting in his bed in the cramped room.
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He looked from Cook to Midge with narrowed eyes and seemed to sense that this was not a propitious moment to suggest a handout.
WEEKEND FOR MURDER
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Upon this, Amarar called his soothsayer, and required him to name a propitious moment for the sally.
Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver
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No one looks forward to the prospect of internecine warfare at so unpropitious a political moment.
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Despite such unpropitious omens, Raistrick believes that Scotland should ‘go for it’ and submit a bid to stage the 2003 World Indoor Cup, with the two most likely venues being in Glasgow or at Bell's Sports Centre.
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They should wait for the most propitious moment between now and the next election.
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The cover or lid of the ark is termed in the LXX. hilasterion, that which covered or shut out the claims and demands of the law against the sins of God's people, whereby he became "propitious" to them.
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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Through propitious decorations the Chinese people expectation of pursuing a happy life.
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Cæsar might be ready to go to war; but if the Pontifex Maximus at Number XI opens any one of five pigeons and pronounces its entrails unpropitious, then the legions must stand down.
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For a while the conditions are so propitious that by spring break I have a rough draft of my book.
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He had no qualms or ‘superstitions’ about certain days or times being more propitious for carving than others, though he did try not to work on Sundays, when he attended his local African Church.
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It's a wonder he got any further in his refereeing career after so unpropitious a beginning.
The Star (South Africa)
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New Year's Day creates this propitious atmosphere for self-renewal because we feel as though the entire world is starting over, just as we are.
Dyane Jean François: New Year, New You: How To Make Your Resolutions Work
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Pagondas refers to propitious victims of sacrifice before battle, 4.92.7
THE LANDMARK THUCYDIDES
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However that may be, yesterday morning as I turned to look for a book, an old fancy seized me to try the 'sortes' and dip into the first page of the first I chanced upon, for my fortune; I said 'what will be the event of my love for Her' ” in so many words ” and my book turned out to be ” 'Cerutti's Italian Grammar!' ” a propitious source of information
The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett
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The results showed the PS with small particle size was propitious to the compatibilization of PS with PP, and the overall properties of PS/PP would be better.
