| 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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| For several centuries Southwark remained rural, partly because it was low lying and unpropitious for building. |
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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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| No one looks forward to the prospect of internecine warfare at so unpropitious a political moment. |
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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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| 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 situation at the main British landing site at Helles, where the landings had begun at dawn, was equally unpropitious. |
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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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| That being said, the context was singularly unpropitious for public sector negotiations. |
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| These circumstances are certainly unpropitious for the creation of productive and sustainable partnerships. |
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| There are still huge inequalities in the development of several areas, while the prospects for the poorer Member States are unpropitious. |
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| A problem has been fixed in the vertical scales of the chart, which caused an unpropitious representation in the metrical sub intervals. |
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| Despite the unpropitious conditions, market share and net banking income in Financial Services held firm amid expense discipline. |
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| In 2001 the couple got married in the face of some unpropitious portents. |
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| The Blog Quebecois is a good one despite its unpropitious location. |
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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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| 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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| 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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| Time and again in the book, Knausgaard displays a talent for experiencing the maximum shame in even the most unpropitious circumstances. |
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| Leigh Fermor lived to the full a charmed life packed with incident and adventure, despite its unpropitious beginnings. |
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| Mr Buffett has sat out markets he judged unpropitious before, only to pounce when they turned. |
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| They consider it to be unpropitious to a rapprochement of the parties to the conflict. |
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| Under such unpropitious circumstances, provisional application may be the best way to restore confidence in the test ban and confer greater legal authority on the treaty regime than it has at present. |
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| It is all reminiscent of laboratory mice building nests in the most unpropitious surroundings. On top of all this, cubicle workers who feel that the walls are closing in on them are onto something. |
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