unpropitious

• “In the wake of the near collapse of the euro in 2011, many economists considered 2012 an unpropitious year to launch Africa's single currency.”

  The Guardian: Look away, Simon Cowell and John Humphrys. 2012 won't be your year | David Mitchell

• “In any case, the tainted election and the murderous suppression of protest that followed made an unpropitious setting for the passage from a greeting on the air to a toe in the water of negotiations.”

  The Huffington Post: David Bromwich: Obama's Drift Toward War With Iran

• “This would seem like unpropitious territory for a candidate who favours eliminating the minimum wage, privatising social security on which the elderly rely, and paring government down to its bare essentials.”

  The Guardian: Tea Party supporters want to 'take their country back'. To where?

• “In Democracy in America, Tocqueville seems nothing more than an impressionable amanuensis — and perhaps a too-willing mouthpiece for the moneyed classes of New York and Boston, who, Damrosch shows in Tocqueville's Discovery of America, celebrated Tocqueville's unpropitious landfall with predictable provincial pomp.”

  Newsweek: The Visitor

• “I've known him since shortly after he was elected to the European Parliament in 2004, mainly (but not exclusively) on the Cyprus issue where he has played a subtly constructive role in unpropitious circumstances.”

  Salute to Cem Özdemir

• “Reports from Richmond, where the Virginia assembly met on October 20, 1788, were “very unpropitious to federal measures,” Washington reported in November.”

  Simon & Schuster: Ratification

• “Not the rich, more than the poor; not the learned, more than the ignorant; not the haughty heirs of distinguished names, more than the humble sons of obscurity and unpropitious fortune.”

  Simon & Schuster: HAVE YOU SEEN MY COUNTRY LATELY?

• “Stoll chose an unpropitious time to start a magazine for the California wine industry.”

  Simon & Schuster: LAST CALL

• “At first glance, the French information technology services group's € 850 million $1.14 billion cash and shares acquisition of Siemens Information Services, an unprofitable subsidiary of the German industrial giant, may loo k equally unpropitious.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Siemens Tie-Up Augurs Well for Atos

• “And that was with decidedly unpropitious circumstances.”

  John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...

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