Sentences with phrase «inauspicious times»

The paintings» imposing scale and bleak depictions of a countenance in turmoil makes sense in such inauspicious times as these.

Wynter Duncanson, a bioengineering and materials science visiting professor at Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, came to Boston eager to participate in the meeting's multifaceted events, even though some of her colleagues had warned that anti-science sentiments in Washington might make this an inauspicious time to pursue an interest in science policy.

He was catching potential investors at an inauspicious time: Many were smarting from disappointing trials of RNA interference therapies, which use short, double - stranded RNA to disrupt the production of disease - causing proteins.

It's an inauspicious time to be introducing a pair of new diesel - powered vehicles to the American market, but Land Rover isn't flinching.

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He gets off to a rather inauspicious start, pointing out he hasn't had time to take legal advice since then.

If a Great Political Guidebook of our time existed — and the reason it doesn't is largely so the public continue to labour under the misapprehension that certain lobby correspondents actually know what they're talking about — the term NIMBY would occupy an inauspicious location within it.

YCE said it in a communiqué on Thursday that the time was inauspicious for the consideration of amnesty for repentant Boko Haram members.

The Canadian Moyle, whose inauspicious directorial debut was the 1977 tax - shelter crime flick The Rubber Gun, discovered teenagers three years later with his oddity of a second film Times Square and has rarely looked back since.

Failing to appreciate the salience of social infrastructure and the irrationality of the organizational environment, both liberals and conservatives have spent a lot of time pursuing questions of limited utility... In hindsight, we would have done better had we given more attention to trying to figure out how to implement anything under such inauspicious circumstances.»