Proceedings started inauspiciously for the home team, when prevailing wisdom was they needed early points to stand any chance. |
I got rather intimate with the Youson family by degrees, although our acquaintance had begun so inauspiciously. |
The week started last Tuesday night with Sotheby's inauspiciously thin evening sale. |
It began, inauspiciously, as a summer league team, but its dizzying ascent to prominence since then has been nothing short of meteoric. |
The PPP began life inauspiciously as a political fudge dreamt up by PricewaterhouseCoopers, a firm of accountants. |
The match began inauspiciously for Wozniacki, who struggled with the warm winds that blew through the stadium. |