These circumstances are certainly unpropitious for the creation of productive and sustainable partnerships. |
Leigh Fermor lived to the full a charmed life packed with incident and adventure, despite its unpropitious beginnings. |
Even the Pope feels it is politically unpropitious to avow any commitment to the RCC's official belief system. |
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. |
For several centuries Southwark remained rural, partly because it was low lying and unpropitious for building. |
The situation at the main British landing site at Helles, where the landings had begun at dawn, was equally unpropitious. |